Pierre Schrumpf-Pierron

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Pierre Schrumpf-Pierron , also Peter Schrumpf-Pierron , actually Pierre / Peter Schrumpf (born June 9, 1882 in Neuweiler / Neuviller-la-Roche , then Molsheim district , Alsace-Lorraine , † October 3, 1952 in La Celle-Saint -Cloud ) was an Alsatian cardiologist and at times a German defense agent .

Life

Church in Neuviller

Pierre Schrumpf came from an old Alsatian Protestant theologian family, which also included the Nassau court architect Friedrich Ludwig Schrumpf . His father, Karl August (Charles Auguste) Christian Schrumpf (1854–1927), was born as the son of a missionary couple at the Bethesda mission station in Basutoland . After the family returned, he became a pastor in Neuweiler and later in Mulhouse . His mother Luise Emma (* 1859), b. Pierron, was the daughter of a notary. Apparently she died in the early 1890s.

He attended high school in Marburg an der Lahn and graduated from high school here at Easter 1900. He then studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg , Strasbourg and Berlin . On December 24, 1904, he received his license to practice medicine , and in the spring of 1905 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. Speaker of his dissertation was Heinrich von Recklinghausen . For his specialist training in cardiology , Schrumpf went to Berlin, Basel and Geneva. During the First World War he served in the 5th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 113 in Freiburg im Breisgau and in the 2nd Rhenish Hussar Regiment No. 9 in Strasbourg. Towards the end of the war he was back in Berlin and served here with Alfred Goldscheider in III. medical clinic. This is where his work Clinical Heart Diagnosis was created .

King Faruq of Egypt

He signed the preface to it in St. Moritz , where he became a sought-after doctor; During this time he expanded his family name to include his mother 's maiden name and was now called Schrumpf-Pierron . In the 1920s he also practiced and taught at the University of Paris until he was appointed professor at the newly founded medical faculty of the University of Cairo in 1925 through the mediation of Henri Vaquez . In 1927 his compilation of clinical data on the physiological effects of tobacco appeared . In 1931 he presented a study on the lower number of cancer cases in Egypt, which he attributed to a higher magnesium content in the soil and in the diet. He admired Islam without formally converting and largely integrated into Egyptian society. After Vaquez's death in 1936, El Hakim ( the doctor ) Schrumpf-Pierron succeeded King Faruq and the royal family as personal doctor . He also got to know Mohammed Amin al-Husseini , the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem , whose friend and advisor he became.

At an unknown point in time, Schrumpf became a German agent and was also in close contact with representatives of the Vichy regime in the Middle East, such as General Henri Fernand Dentz . In the spring of 1941 he left Cairo, first to Beirut and then to Syria and finally to Ankara , where he met the Abwehr officer Georg Alexander Hansen . This was in connection with Rudolf Rahn's (alias Renouard) special order in Syria and Iraq , the national Iraqi leadership clique that came to power in April through a military coup to harness Prime Minister Raschid Ali al-Gailani for the German war aims and on the basis of the " Paris Protocols ”. These plans were shattered by the swift British intervention in the Syrian-Lebanese campaign that ended the Vichy presence in Lebanon and Syria. On June 21, 1941, Damascus was occupied by the British and the Free French.

Mohammed Amin al-Husseini with Adolf Hitler, December 1941

In Istanbul , Schrumpf met the German consul Alfred de Chapeaurouge . A little later he was officially accepted into the German armed forces as a senior war doctor . He was assigned to the Orient Department of the Abwehr under Werner Otto von Hentig . In the summer of 1941 he came to Berlin via Sofia , where he arrived on August 8, 1941. He was nominally chief physician at the Zehlendorf hospital, but his main task remained accompanying Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, who had also come to Germany.

In April 1942, Schrumpf traveled to the Bulgarian health resort Bankja and Sofia. He also made inquiries in connection with the planned establishment of Muslim associations in the Balkans, from which in 1943 the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS "Handschar" (Croatian No. 1) emerged. In December 1942 he was again in Sofia and met Otto Wagner alias Dr. Delius , the station chief of the Abwehr.

In 1943 Schrumpf-Pierron found a medical job in the prestigious private clinic of the surgeon Hans Töpfer on Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz (Berlin) . After the Mufti was transferred to Oybin , Schrumpf-Pierron left Berlin with his wife and daughter.

In March 1944 he came to Mulhouse to take up a position as chief physician at the Hasenrain hospital. As the front approached, he evaded to Sierentz , where he was arrested and questioned for the first time on November 20, 1944. It can be assumed that he wanted to flee to Switzerland. First released, he was arrested again on March 8, 1945 in Colmar and transferred to Mulhouse in August 1945. The indictment before the Haut-Rhin court described him as an adventurer of great style and a man without conscience or scruples ( aventurier de grande classe, homme sans conscience ni scrupile ) and as responsible for the formation of the Bosnian Legion . The verdict was life imprisonment ( réclusion perpétuelle ). At the same time he was expelled from the French medical profession. An appeal was rejected on October 18, 1946 by the Court of Appeal in Colmar. His wife's petition for clemency was unsuccessful.

Schrumpf-Pierron was admitted to the prison in Celle-Saint-Cloud, where he died in 1952.

Schrumpf-Pierron was married three times: first from 1908 to Elisabeth v. Dewall (* 1879; † 1970), the marriage was divorced after a few years, then from 1916 or 1918 with Cornelia (Nelly) von Schmoller (born September 30, 1879 in Strasbourg; † December 12, 1932 in Cairo), a daughter von Gustav (von) Schmoller and aunt of the diplomat Gustav von Schmoller , who was married to Ernst Sandau in her first marriage . His son Max (from his first marriage) was born in 1912, daughter Marion in 1921. After the death of his second wife in Cairo in 1932, Schrumpf married Josephine Jacob Kasparian, who came from an Armenian-Egyptian family, in 1937 . The daughter Laila Marie-Madeleine, born in 1943, comes from this marriage.

Awards

Works

  • About the cell inclusions described as protozoa in Variola. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1905 / Strasbourg, Univ., Med.Diss. Of March 8, 1905
  • Clinical cardiac diagnostics. Berlin: Springer 1919 ( digitized version )
French edition: Diagnostic cardiologique. Préface de M. le professeur H. Vaquez. Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils 1921
  • Heart disease. A short textbook for students and doctors. Leipzig: Thieme 1922
  • Manuel de cardiologie pratique. Paris: N. Maloine 1925
  • Tobacco and physical efficiency. A Digest of Clinical Data. New York: Hoeber 1927 ( digitized by Hathi Trust )
  • Therapeutique cardiovasculaire. Paris: J. Peyronnet 1935

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Weber (lit.), p. 29; the entry of the dissertation ( memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the directory of university papers says July 9th @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / quart_ifk.bsb-muenchen.de
  2. ^ So Weber (Lit.), p. 157; According to Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels Volume 73, p. 345 he died on October 31, 1951 in Paris
  3. ^ Marie Joseph Bopp: The evangelical clergy and theologians in Alsace and Lorraine from the Reformation to the present: AH. Neustadt ad Aisch: Degener 1959, p. 429; see also the family tree
  4. ↑ Syria was a French League of Nations mandate , the mandate administration was initially loyal to the Vichy regime. June 8, 1941: British troops and free French invade .
  5. ↑ v. May 28, 1941: After seven days of negotiations, the German Walter Warlimont and the Vichy-French Minister of War Charles Léon Clément Huntziger signed a protocol that promised concrete French support for the German war
  6. ↑ On Wagner see his file in The National Archives
  7. ^ After Weber (Lit.), p. 152
  8. ↑ See Weber (Lit.).
  9. ^ Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook: Genealogical manual of the nobility . CA Starke 1980, p. 345 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
personal data
SURNAME Shrink-Pierron, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shrink-Pierron, Peter; Shrink, Pierre (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian cardiologist and temporarily German defense agent
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuviller-la-Roche , then the Molsheim district , Alsace-Lorraine region
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1952
Place of death La Celle-Saint-Cloud