Otto Krohne

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Otto Krohne (born May 29, 1868 in Erfurt , † December 20, 1928 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a German doctor , eugenicist and ministerial director in the Weimar Republic .

Life

Krohne studied medicine at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and became a member of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg in 1889 . In Würzburg he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . Before the First World War , Krohne dealt with quantitative population policy . In 1911 he headed the medical department of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. Since 1912 go. Medical Councilor , he became a walking member in 1916. Senior Medical Councilor appointed and transferred to the Ministry of Welfare. In the Weimar Republic he also devoted himself to eugenic aspects and in May 1920 founded the Advisory Board for Racial Hygiene , which was supposed to investigate “whether and to what extent our people appear to be endangered by the serious consequences of the war, also from a racial hygiene point of view, and what proposals to combat such Danger are to be made. "

The Advisory Board to the Prussian State Health Council , which was founded in 1921, came as a committee for racial hygiene and population affairs . Members of the committee were three ministerial officials, the pathologist Erwin Baur , the botanists and geneticists Carl Correns , Richard Goldschmidt and Heinrich Poll , the statistician Emil Eugen Roesle , the gynecologists Agnes Bluhm , Ernst Bumm and Max Hirsch and the anatomist Hans Virchow . Krohne became President of the Council.

Krohne's election as chairman of the German Society for Racial Hygiene , founded by Alfred Ploetz in 1907, was significant because it enabled the moderate and welfare state-oriented Berlin society to prevail over the more nationally oriented Munich branch of the German Society.

In 1924 he became deputy president of the State Health Office and chairman of the commission for the state examination of pharmacists. In 1926 he was promoted to Ministerial Director and entrusted with the management of the health department in the Ministry of Welfare . In 1927/28 he was the driving force behind the abolition of compulsory drinking in the KSCV .

Works

  • The Prussian Midwifery Act of July 20, 1922 and the amendments to the law of December 31, 1922 and March 15, 1923 . Osterwieck 1923
  • Alcohol and compulsory drinking . In: Deutsche Corpszeitung , 45 (1928/29), pp. 233-240

literature

  • Anahid Rickmann: "Rassenpflege in the Völkisch State" - On the relationship between racial hygiene and National Socialist politics . Dissertation, University of Bonn 2002
  • Hans-Walter Schmuhl: Crossing borders. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics 1927–1945 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2003
  • Ministerial Director Dr. Otto Krohne † . In: Deutsche Corpszeitung , 46 (1929/30), pp. 12-14
  • Peter Reinicke : Krohne, Otto , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 331f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 137/436.
  2. ↑ Poll emigrated to Sweden in 1933.
  3. ↑ Roesle . PMID 1103492
  4. ↑ Virchow
personal data
SURNAME Krohne, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, eugenicist and medical officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1928
Place of death Berlin-Lichterfelde