Paul Würfler

Paul Würfler (born February 4, 1895 in Wetzlar ; † November 14, 1985 in Bonn ) was a German medic and medical officer, most recently a doctor general of the Wehrmacht Air Force .

Life

Paul dicer studied after the matriculation examination from 1913 medicine at the Universities of Jena and Berlin . At the beginning of August 1914, he volunteered for the army and participated in the First World War as a member of the medical service. After the end of the war, he left the army as a field medical officer in January 1919. Then he took his medical studies again and in 1920 with the dissertation enrich or clarify war experiences our views on the etiology of multiple sclerosis ?: Ed. Due to the observational data of the psychiatric and mental hospital to Jena to soldiers in Jena to the Dr. med. PhD . He then practiced as a general practitioner in Rastenberg and completed his specialist training as a psychiatrist in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) from 1923 . In 1925 he became a local doctor. From 1927 to 1935 he was senior physician in the psychiatric department of the Eberswalde state institution.

After the National Socialists came to power , he joined the NSDAP at the beginning of May 1933 (membership number 2,300,584). In mid-April 1935 he was accepted into the Reichswehr with the rank of medical officer and at the beginning of July of this year he was transferred to Königsberg as a military doctor in the air force . At the beginning of October 1936 he switched to the rank of senior staff doctor for the Air Force Medical Inspectorate, where he initially worked as a clerk. In 1938 he was promoted to senior physician.

After the beginning of the Second World War , he was an aerial doctor in Posen and from mid-July 1940 in Münster . At the beginning of October 1941 he became Chief of Staff at the Air Force Sanitary Inspection, and at the beginning of September 1942 in the same position at the Wehrmacht Medical Service. At the beginning of December 1943 he was promoted to general physician and, in addition to his position as chief of the staff of the Wehrmacht medical services, also took on the deputy management of the Wehrmacht medical services under Siegfried Handloser . Würfler was present, along with other participants, at a film screening in the Reich Aviation Ministry , where the human experiments by the concentration camp doctor Sigmund Raschers were shown. He later stated that he missed this screening due to his late arrival.

After the end of the war, Würfler was interned in the UK, from which he was released on June 12, 1946. In the course of the Nuremberg doctors' trial , he made an affidavit for the defendant Siegfried Handloser and was heard as a defense witness during the trial. After his release from internment, he entered the judicial service and worked as a prison doctor and senior medical adviser in Cologne. At the University of Cologne , he lectured on forensic psychiatry. From 1963 to 1967 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Sanitary and Health Care at the Federal Ministry of Defense .

Publications

Chief of the Wehrmacht medical services. Looking back after 33 years. In: Military medicine and military pharmacy. 15, 1977, pp. 61-68. (not evaluated)

literature

Klaus Dörner (ed.): The Nuremberg Medical Trial 1946/47. Verbal transcripts, prosecution and defense material, sources on the environment. Index tape for the microfiche edition. On behalf of the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century. German edition, microfiche edition. Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-32028-0 .
Reinhold Busch (Ed.): Suffering and dying in war hospitals. Swiss medical missions in World War II. Part 5: War diaries from the Smolensk hospitals, winter 1941/42. Series: history (s) of medicine. Volume 011. Frank Wünsche, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-933345-15-8 .

Web links

Literature by and about Paul Würfler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Life data according to Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 688
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g The Nuremberg Medical Trial 1946/47. Verbal transcripts, prosecution and defense material, sources on the environment. Index tape for the microfiche edition. On behalf of the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century. German edition, microfiche edition, Munich 2000, p. 157.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Reinhold Busch (Ed.): Suffering and dying in war hospitals. Swiss medical missions in World War II. Part 5: War diaries from the Smolensk hospitals, winter 1941/42. Berlin 2009, p. 52.
↑ Alexander Neumann: "Doctors are always fighters" - The Army Medical Inspectorate and the office of "Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Services" in the Second World War (1939–1945). 2005, ISBN 3-7700-1618-1 , pp. 354, 360.

personal data
SURNAME	Dice, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic and medical officer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 4, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH	November 14, 1985
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Life data according to Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 688

[Nürnberger_Ärzteprozess157-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g The Nuremberg Medical Trial 1946/47. Verbal transcripts, prosecution and defense material, sources on the environment. Index tape for the microfiche edition. On behalf of the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century. German edition, microfiche edition, Munich 2000, p. 157.

[Busch52-3] Reinhold Busch (Ed.): Suffering and dying in war hospitals. Swiss medical missions in World War II. Part 5: War diaries from the Smolensk hospitals, winter 1941/42. Berlin 2009, p. 52.

[4] Alexander Neumann: "Doctors are always fighters" - The Army Medical Inspectorate and the office of "Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Services" in the Second World War (1939–1945). 2005, ISBN 3-7700-1618-1 , pp. 354, 360.