Max Obé

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Julius Nikolaus Max Obé (born June 4, 1889 in Saarlouis ; † December 4, 1969 ) was a German doctor , medical officer in the Saar region and in the "Third Reich" and a professional medical officer after 1945.

Life

Max Obé studied medicine at the Universities of Strasbourg, Giessen and Munich from 1909 to 1914 and was awarded a doctorate in August 1914. med. PhD .

During the First World War he was employed as a military doctor in Strasbourg . From 1918 to 1923 he was the chief doctor of the municipal hospital in Neuerburg in the Trier district and part-time vaccination doctor, railway doctor, school doctor and welfare doctor. In August 1923 Obé was appointed district doctor for St. Wendel . From October of the same year he became an official of the Saar government commission (from 1925 head of the People's Welfare Department).

From February 1935 Obé was government director in the Reich Commissioner for the reintegration of the Saarland . From 1936 he was a civil servant of the German Reich and was the highest medical officer in the Reich Commissioner for the Saarland (1936), the Saar Palatinate (1940), with the Reichsstatthalter Westmark (1941). In these functions he was responsible for the reorganization of social security in Lorraine and the reorganization of the hospital system in Lorraine. He is also said to be responsible for forced sterilization , forced abortions and "euthanasia" . From December 1941 he was managing director of the Westmark State Insurance Company .

In 1935 Max Obé became a member of the NSDAP , the National Socialist People's Welfare ( NSV ), the Reich Association of German Civil Servants ( RDB ) and the National Socialist German Medical Association (NSDÄB) , and in 1937 a member of the National Socialist Lawyers' Association .

After the end of the Second World War , Obé was from June 1, 1945 department head of the Department of Social Affairs and Health Care (later Labor Department) of the “Saar Regional Council”. On October 25, 1945 he was appointed chairman of the Saarland State Insurance Office, but was released on February 1, 1946 under pressure from the American military authorities. By order of the purge committee of the French military government, he was suspended from duty. As a result of Friedrich Doenecke's determination of incapacity , the suspension was lifted again in November 1947.

In January 1950, Max Obé became the first elected President of the Saar Medical Association after the war to replace his predecessor appointed by the military government. In 1954 and 1958 he was elected to this office. In 1950 Obé received a teaching position for medical class and social insurance at the Saarland University . Obé also volunteered as chairman of the establishment of a regional association for the fight against cancer and cancer research. In recognition of his services, he was awarded the title of Privy Medical Council on July 24, 1958.

Honors

  • Appointment to the secret medical council (1958)
  • Honorary President of the Saarland Medical Association (1962)
  • Awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (1962)
  • Honorary citizenship of Saarland University (1964)
  • Paracelsus Medal of the German Medical Association (1967)
  • Honorary member of the Medical Society of the Saarland

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Saarland, Head of the State Chancellery, communications for the press and radio, Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for Secret Medical Councilor Dr. Max OBE, Saarbrücken, October 30, 1962
personal data
SURNAME Obé, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Obé, Julius Nikolaus Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, medical officer, medical officer and Nazi doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarlouis
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1969