Otto Wuth

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Otto Wuth (born May 19, 1885 in Ramsbottom, Bury ; † March 7, 1946 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German psychiatrist and the highest-ranking military psychiatrist in the Wehrmacht during World War II .

Life

Wuth, whose father was a chemist, completed his studies in medicine at the University of Munich after finishing his school career . From 1911 to 1914 he was an assistant doctor at the II. Medical Clinic under their conductor Friedrich von Müller worked and was 1912. Dr. med. been awarded a doctorate . After the outbreak of World War I , he volunteered for the German Army and took part in the war as a medical officer.

After the war he worked in Berlin-Dahlem at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Experimental Therapy . He returned to Munich in 1919 and there headed the Chemical Institute of the Psychiatric Clinic, initially under Emil Kraepelin and from spring 1924 under his successor Oswald Bumke . He completed his habilitation in 1921 with the text: "Investigations into physical disorders of the mentally ill". Afterwards he was a private lecturer and was an associate professor in Munich in 1926. Appointed professor.

From 1925 he worked at the Psychiatric Clinic of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as part of a research stay. He moved from there to Switzerland in 1928 and was employed at the Binswanger Spa at Bellevue in Kreuzlingen until 1935 . In 1934 he founded the local NSDAP / AO association in Kreuzlingen . Afterwards he lived in Germany again and in 1935 he had his habilitation in Berlin. As a medical officer in the Wehrmacht , he joined the Reich Ministry of War in 1935 , where he initially took over the management of the physiological laboratory. From 1935 to the end of September 1944 he headed the Institute for General Psychiatry and Defense Psychology at the Military Medical Academy . During the Second World War , he was also a consultant psychiatrist for the army medical inspector as a senior physician . His successor in these functions was Max de Crinis . At the end of December 1944 he left the Wehrmacht.

The "psychopathic soldier" approach developed by him stigmatized members of the Wehrmacht with "deviant behavior" and thus excluded them. This included, in particular, homosexual soldiers, who, on his advice, were rigorously persecuted by the armed forces justice.

At the beginning of March 1946, Wuth was sentenced as a questionnaire forger by a US military court in Garmisch-Partenkirchen to one year in prison. Shortly after serving his sentence, he suicided by hanging.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Günter Grau: Lexicon on the persecution of homosexuals 1933–1945. Institutions - people - fields of activity . Berlin 2011, p. 331. Year and place of death differ and a. from Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 690 (1945 Berlin)
  2. ^ A b c d Günter Grau: Lexicon on the persecution of homosexuals 1933–1945. Institutions - people - fields of activity . Berlin 2011, p. 331 f.
  3. ↑ H. Hippius, H -J Maller, Norbert Müller, G. Neundörfer: The Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Munich 1904-2004. Berlin 2006, p. 96
  4. ↑ a b The Nuremberg Doctors Trial 1946/47. Index tape for the microfiche edition . Walter de Gruyter, 2000, p. 158
  5. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 690
  6. ↑ Unmasked Nazi commits suicide , In: Hochland-Bote, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, March 16, 1946
personal data
SURNAME Wuth, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Ramsbottom, Bury
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1946
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen