Paul Lüth

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Paul Egon Heinrich Lüth (born June 20, 1921 in Perleberg ; † August 6, 1986 in Rengshausen ) was a German doctor, medical sociologist, writer and publicist. He was the founder and leader of the militant anti-communist Bund Deutscher Jugend (BDJ), which existed from 1950 to 1952 .

biography

Before 1945

Lüth grew up as the son of a merchant in Perleberg and attended school there. He passed his Abitur on March 20, 1939. At the beginning of the war he joined the Wehrmacht and joined a medical group there. In the autumn of 1939 he was released to begin studying medicine , which he began in the first trimester of 1940 at the University of Rostock . In April 1941 Lüth had to interrupt his studies because he was called up for military service , but was able to resume in December 1942. He studied a total of eight semesters and took the Physikum on November 9, 1943. In 1942 he married his first wife, with whom he had two sons (1942 and 1944). During the semester break, Lüth was repeatedly assigned to work at the front until the war completely prevented him from continuing his studies. Even without a medical exam, Lüth was last active as a field doctor . The last stop was the Perleberg military hospital.

After 1945

After the collapse of the Nazi dictatorship in 1945, he settled down as a doctor in Groß-Gerau and was hired as a refugee doctor by the district administrator there on December 1, 1945. Due to a lack of documents about his medical training, doubts arose. He was therefore dismissed from the service of the district on August 31, 1946.

In early 1946, Lüth joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and gave lectures on Marxism-Leninism. Communism was probably not his true conviction, because a short time later he founded an anti-communist organization initiated by the CIA - see below. u. In a Bundestag debate on October 23, 1952, KPD MP Max Renner described him as a “spy and provocateur”.

From 1946 to 1948 Lüth was publisher and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Der Bogen (subtitled “The first German magazine after the war”) in Wiesbaden, which, in addition to funding from Alfred Döblin, mainly had American financiers. Lüth also published under the pseudonym Ernst Groner. The editorial concept of Der Bogen envisaged US propaganda. When this did not materialize and the licensee Victor Schulz left for Spain, the financial support was discontinued, so that the last editions could no longer appear in 1947. Lüth tried to keep the magazine and, in search of donations, met Henry Selby, whose activity in West Germany at that time consisted exclusively of founding front organizations of the CIC . Instead of continuing the magazine, Selby suggested that Lüth should set up a political youth organization. Lüth agreed, which resulted on June 23, 1950 with the entry of the Federation of German Youth (BDJ) in the Frankfurt Register of Associations.

From 1950 to 1952 Lüth was not only the founder, but also the chairman and chief thinker of the right-wing extremist youth association. The BDJ derived the political guidelines and guidelines for daily politics from Lüth's memorandum Bürger und Partisan . The BDJ, together with the sub-organization Technical Service (TD), was banned nationwide in 1953. The ban was preceded by a scandal in 1952, according to which the BDJ / TD would be a “ stay-behind organization ” financed by the CIA , which organizes the partisan war after a Soviet invasion and in this context also liquidates “Soviet-friendly” politicians should. Lüth was the contact to the CIA and controlled the flow of money. An arrest of Lüth was prevented by the American authorities. Due to a ruling by the BGH, charges against him were later suppressed.

Act as a doctor

From the winter semester of 1953, Lüth continued his medical studies, which he had broken off during the war, at the University of Mainz. In March 1956 he passed his state examination and began studying the natural sciences in the subjects of anthropology, zoology, human genetics and microbiology, which he then continued in Frankfurt am Main. In 1958 he was there with his work "iron metabolism and iron medication," Dr. med. PhD .

In 1963 Lüth settled as a country doctor in Rengshausen. Since 1971 he has been a lecturer for social medicine at the University of Kassel, and since 1977 lecturer for sociology in medicine at the University of Mainz. In 1980 Lüth received the honorary professorship for social medicine at both universities .

For his "Diary of a Country Doctor", published in 1983, Lüth, together with Ernst Rossmüller and his collection of poems "Interlude", received the German Medical Association's Literature Prize on June 23, 1984.

In 1986 Lüth was one of seven members of the Advisory Council for Concerted Action in Health Care .

Until his death as a result of a heart attack, Lüth lived as a country doctor and freelance writer in Rengshausen.

Fonts

  • Japanese philosophy. Attempt to present an overall picture taking into account the beginnings in myth and religion . JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1944.
  • Literature as history. German poetry from 1885 to 1947. 2 volumes. Limes, Wiesbaden 1947.
  • Peter Bor (pseudonym): Conversations with Halder . Limes, Wiesbaden 1950.
  • Citizen and partisan. About the resistance yesterday, today and tomorrow. Verlag der Parma-Edition, Frankfurt am Main 1951. (According to Schmidt-Eenboom, a pamphlet in which Lüth states that individual citizens had to defend themselves as partisans against a feared invasion by the USSR since 1939. This is how Luth defines the German 1941 war of aggression as a defense against the SU)
  • History of geriatrics. 3000 years of physiology, pathology and therapy of the elderly. Enke, Stuttgart 1965.
  • Man is not a coincidence. Outlines of a modern anthropology. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-421-02720-X .
  • Country doctor's diary. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-421-06128-9 .
  • The end of medicine? Discovery of the new health. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-421-02739-0 .

literature

  • Central Secretariat of the Young Socialists (ed.): Partisan against payment. The BDJ's dark game . Neuer Vorwärts-Verlag, Bonn, OCLC 914870656 .
  • Ute Balmaceda-Harmelink: Paul Lüth (1921–1986) - a bioergography: with special consideration of his contribution to theoretical and practical medicine. LIT-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1243-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrollment of Paul Lüth , 1st trimester 1940, No. 3840 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Enrollment of Paul Lüth , winter semester 1942/1943, No. 5510 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Lüths deleted from the registers of the University of Rostock on August 28, 1944.
  4. ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, Ulrich Stoll, Die Partisanen der NATO: Stay-Behind Organizations in Germany 1946–1991. Links Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 9783861538400 , p. 25 and footnote 42, p. 251.
  5. ^ Peter-Ferdinand Koch: The hostile brothers: GDR versus FRG. Scherz Verlag, 1994, pp. 155/156.
  6. ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt, issue 28/29 of July 13, 1984, p. 2186
  7. ↑ Joachim Ruf, Encounters with Gottfried Benn , Edition Rarissima 1986, p. 10
  8. ↑ Zahnärztliche Mitteilungen, No. 15, August 1984, p. 1632
  9. ↑ On the death of Paul Lüth. In: Ärzteblatt. 34/35, August 22, 1986, p. 2309.
  10. ^ "In my book 'Conversations with Halder' (published under the pseudonym Peter Bor) ..." In: Bürger und Partisan. P. 45.

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personal data
SURNAME Lüth, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lüth, Paul Egon Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Pearl Mountain
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1986
Place of death Rengshausen