Oswald Urchs (doctor)

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Oswald Urchs (nickname: " Gauleiter of India ", also as Otto Urchs ) (born December 24, 1895 in Pilsen , Austria-Hungary ) was a German doctor and active in the NSDAP .

Life

Oswald Urchs was born in Pilsen in Austria-Hungary. He studied in Prague around 1919 but later became a German. He initially worked as a doctor, including from 1923 to 1926 as a mine doctor in Guyana . There, as later, he dealt with the clinical picture of malaria . In 1926 Urchs reported on the successful treatment of dysentery with Rivanol clysmen, which was later scientifically confirmed.

From 1927 he worked for IG Farben in India working and sales in 1931 as an employee of the Dutch IG Farben subsidiary Havero Trading Company , which offered other products of the Group, the antimalarials Atebrin . The Havero Trading Company had branches in 16 Indian cities with representatives of the NSDAP. In July 1932 he was head of the British India and Ceylon District based in Bombay , which was elevated to a national group at the end of 1936. The task was to look after the Germans in their home country, following the pattern of the NSDAP. Interfering in the politics of the host country was forbidden. In this function he was in contact with Subhash Chandra Bose , who complained to Urchs at the end of 1938 about German racism and the bad press in India. From 1936 to 1939 the national group published the magazine Der Deutsche in Indien . As a regional group leader, he was a member of the NSDAP's foreign organization .

During the Second World War he was interned in India. He led the Deolali camp from February 1941 and also the Premnagar von Dehradun camp from September 1941 . There he got to know Heinrich Harrer , among others .

He was involved in the investigation against IG-Farben and is given as the managing director of Bayer. In 1946 the US Congress attested that he was “ dismissed years ago on account of party troubles ”. What this statement referred to cannot be conclusively determined.

He later lived as a tropical specialist in Bergisch Gladbach . He was the father of the director Wolfgang Urchs .

Works (selection)

  • Our position on Prague soil . in: Barden-Zeitung, 7/8, 1919, pp. 17-19.
  • Contribution to the case history of lymphogranulomatosis , 1923.
  • Relationship of Malaria to the Nervous System . In: Archives for Ship and Tropical Hygiene, Volume 29, Part 1, Barth , 1925, pp. 283 ff.
  • 3 years malaria control in Holl. Guyana (1923–1926) , In: Arbeits über Tropicalkrankheiten, 1927, p. 561 ff.
  • The Composition of Plasmoquine (promotional text). In: The Indian medical gazette, 63 (9), 1928, p. 551.
  • The Formula of Atebrine (promotional text). In: The Indian medical gazette, 68 (11), 1933, pp. 661 + 662.
  • The cultural relations between Germany and India and the role of Germans abroad . In: We Germans in the World, Otto Stollberg , Berlin, 1938.
  • Observations of a camp doctor on psycho-neurotic reactions during a seven-year internment in British India , 1948.
  • Emotional reactions during internment , 1950. In: Studium Generale, pp. 32–44 [1]
  • A blood-positive late malaria relapse . In: Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift , 95 (45), 1954.
  • On the question of long-term damage after war malaria . In: Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift, 100 (18), 1958.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Horst GW Nusser, Annemarie Prantl: India, Ceylon: history, culture, art, geography, economy, religion, society, politics: from d. Beginnings to the present: e. Demolition . Nusser, 1979, ISBN 978-3-88091-020-1 , pp. 228 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  2. ^ Gerhard Hischfeld, Lothar Kettenacker, German Historical Institute in London: "Führer State": myth and reality: studies on the structure and politics of the Third Reich . Klett-Cotta, 1981, ISBN 978-3-12-915350-5 , pp. 317 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Psyche: Journal for Psychoanalysis and Its Applications . 1948, p. 160 ( google.de [accessed on March 18, 2020]).
  4. ↑ a b American Hebrew and Jewish Tribune . American Hebrew, 1938, pp. 6 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  5. ↑ a b c Christina Lubinski, Valeria Giacomin, Klara Schnitzer: Countering Political Risk in Colonial India: German Multinationals and the Challenge of Internment (1914-1947), p. 24 PDF file, p. 25
  6. ↑ Christoph von Ungern-Sternberg: Willy Haas 1891-1973: "a great director of literature" . Edition Text + Critique, 2007, ISBN 978-3-88377-858-7 , p. 228 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  7. ↑ The anthropogeographical significance of malaria . Brill Archive, p. 54 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Heinrich Harrer: My life . Ullstein, 2002, ISBN 978-3-550-07524-7 , pp. 54 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Archives for ship and tropical hygiene . JA Barth, 1930, p. 481 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  10. ^ A b Hans-Bernd Zöllner: The enemy of my enemy is my friend: Subhas Chandra Bose and contemporary Germany under National Socialism, 1933-1943 . LIT Verlag Münster, 2000, ISBN 978-3-8258-4478-3 , p. 36 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  11. ↑ Great Britain Army Royal Army Medical Corps: Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps . 1932, p. 195 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  12. ^ O. Urchs: Atebrine in Malaria . In: The Indian Medical Gazette . tape 67 , no. October 10 , 1932, ISSN  0019-5863 , p. 597 , PMID 29010876 , PMC 5231506 (free full text) - ( nih.gov [accessed March 15, 2020]).
  13. ↑ Jan Kuhlmann: Subhas Chandra Bose and the India policy of the Axis powers . Verlag Hans Schiler, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89930-064-2 , pp. 66 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  14. ↑ Jan Kuhlmann: Subhas Chandra Bose and the India policy of the Axis powers . Verlag Hans Schiler, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89930-064-2 , pp. 29 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  15. ^ A b United States Congress Senate: Hearings . US Government Printing Office, 1946, pp. 1319 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  16. ↑ Heinrich Harrer: My life . Ullstein, 2002, ISBN 978-3-550-07524-7 , pp. 58 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  17. ^ Investigations against IG Farbenindustrie AG, September 1945 . Greno, 1986, ISBN 978-3-89190-019-2 , pp. 168 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  18. ↑ The Medical World . FK Schattauer-Verlag, October 1954, p. 1704 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  19. ^ O. Urchs: The Formula of Atebrin . In: The Indian Medical Gazette . tape 68 , no. November 11 , 1933, ISSN  0019-5863 , p. 661-662 , PMID 29009419 , PMC 5163769 (free full text) - ( nih.gov [accessed March 15, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Urchs, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Pilsen , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 20th century