Richard Haas (medic)
Richard Haas (born September 23, 1910 in Chemnitz , † September 26, 1988 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) was a German hygienist , bacteriologist and university professor.
Life
Haas studied medicine and chemistry at the universities of Munich , Göttingen and Leipzig . He completed his chemistry studies with a diploma and the medical studies with a state examination; In 1935 the doctorate to Dr. med. Afterwards he was assistant to Emil Abderhalden at the sociological-chemical institute of the University of Halle . From 1937 he worked at the Institute for Experimental Therapy of the Behringwerke in Marburg , where he headed the diagnostic examination department from 1938. Haas completed his habilitation in 1942 with a paper on toxins from the dysentery bacteria at the University of Marburg , where he worked as a private lecturer in hygiene from summer 1942.
He had already joined the SA in 1933 when power was handed over to the National Socialists . From 1937 he was a member of the NSDAP . He was also a member of the NSV , the NS-Ärztebund and the NS-Bund Deutscher Technik .
During the Second World War he headed the Emil von Behring Institute in German-occupied Lemberg from December 1942 to 1944 , where typhus research was carried out and typhus vaccines were produced. In this context, Haas cooperated with the typhus experimental station in Buchenwald concentration camp , which was headed by Erwin Ding-Schuler . He switched from the SA to the SS in 1943 .
After the war, Haas was in Allied internment. From 1950 he headed the human medical research branch at the Behring works. At the University of Marburg he headed the Institute for Experimental Therapy from 1952 and worked in Marburg as an adjunct professor from 1953.
From May 1955 until his retirement in 1975 he was Professor of Hygiene and Bacteriology at the University of Freiburg . He was also President of the German Association to Combat Virus Diseases .
Since 1967 he was a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .
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 .
- Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Haas in the catalog of the German National Library
- Haas, Franz Beno Wilhelm Richard. Hessian biography. (As of January 28, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Richard Haas in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 213
- ↑ adw.uni-heidelberg.de: Entry in the member database ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haas, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hygienist, bacteriologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1988 |
| Place of death | Kempten (Allgäu) |