Richard Günther

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Richard Günther (born February 21, 1911 in Zeitz ; † December 8, 1980 in Neukirchen, Upper Bavaria ) was a German doctor and National Socialist .

Life

Günther became involved in the National Socialist early on, he was the holder of the golden HJ decoration. He became a member of the NSDAP in 1931 and received the badge of honor of the NS student union. He studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg, Königsberg and Berlin, which he graduated in 1936. In the same year he was approved . He then completed his medical internship at the “ Polyclinic for Hereditary and Racial Care” at the Empress Auguste Victoria House in Berlin-Charlottenburg under Eduard Schütt , where he worked as an assistant doctor after completing his training. Most recently he was senior physician under Schütt.

In October 1939 he moved to the main health office in Vienna . In this context, he initially headed the “marriage counseling” and “eradicating measures” units at the Hereditary Health Office. From June 1940 he also worked at the sanatorium and nursing home for the mentally and mentally ill at the Steinhof . There he was responsible for the coordination of compulsory sterilizations as the “regional chairman for the hereditary biological inventory”. In addition, he was an assessor at the Higher Hereditary Health Court in Vienna.

From March 1941, he also headed the “Hereditary and Racial Care” department in the main health office of the municipal administration of the Reichsgau Vienna as Arend Lang's successor . He was a state-approved race expert. He was appointed senior medical officer in 1942. As the successor to Hermann Vellguth , he also headed the NSDAP's racial office in Vienna.

In mid-November 1944 he signed up for military service in the Waffen SS . From 1945 to 1947 Günther was interned in America. He then worked as a general practitioner in Bavaria.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Herwig Czech: Record, assess, eradicate: The Vienna Main Health Office and the implementation of “hereditary and racial care” 1938 to 1945. In: Heinz-Eberhard Gabriel, Wolfgang Neugebauer (Ed.): Vorreiter der Vernichtung? Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. Part III; Böhlau, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-205-77122-2 .
  • Eberhard Gabriel: 100 years of the Baumgartner Höhe health location: From the sanatoriums and nursing homes at Steinhof to the Otto Wagner Hospital. Facultas Universitätsverlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7089-0061-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Eberhard Gabriel: 100 years of the Baumgartner Höhe health location: From the sanatoriums and nursing homes at Steinhof to the Otto Wagner Hospital. Vienna 2007, p. 195
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 209
  3. ↑ a b Herwig Czech: Capture, appraise, eradicate: The Vienna Main Health Office and the implementation of “hereditary and racial maintenance” 1938 to 1945. In: Heinz-Eberhard Gabriel, Wolfgang Neugebauer (ed.): Vorreiter der Vernichtung? Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. Part III; Böhlau, Vienna 2005, p. 37
  4. ↑ Herwig Czech: Capture, appraise, eradicate: The Vienna Main Health Office and the implementation of “hereditary and racial maintenance” 1938 to 1945. In: Heinz-Eberhard Gabriel, Wolfgang Neugebauer (ed.): Vorreiter der Vernichtung? Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. Part III; Böhlau, Vienna 2005, p. 28
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Time
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1980
Place of death Neukirchen, Upper Bavaria