Robert Hördemann

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Robert Rudolf Jakob Hördemann (born March 14, 1900 in Kassel , † May 22, 1991 in Hofgeismar ) was a German physician. In 1937 he became a Reich doctor for the Hitler Youth and was one of the leading theorists and propagandists of the National Socialist youth health policy.

Life

After Hördemann, the son of a gardener, graduated from high school in May 1917 , he completed his patriotic service in 1917/18 and took part in the First World War as a musketeer from June to August 1918 . From 1918 to 1923 he studied medicine in Marburg , Freiburg and Göttingen . In 1920 he joined a volunteer corps under Bogislav von Selchow , which was deployed in central Germany . After his doctorate in November 1925 and his license to practice medicine in the same year , he settled in Kassel in October 1926 as a general practitioner , where he also worked as a company doctor for the Henschel works from 1930 and, after the National Socialist " seizure of power ", as a forensic doctor at the regional insurance office and from 1934 to 1937 worked as an assessor at the Kassel Hereditary Health Court .

Hördemann became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 ( membership number 1,857,571) and was also a member of the SA from May to August 1933 . In August 1933 he became a member of the Hitler Youth and a district doctor in the HJ area of ​​Kurhessen as well as a member of the racial office of the NSDAP . From 1935/36 he was a spell leader in the health department of the Reich Youth Leadership . In 1937 he was appointed Reichsarzt of the Hitler Youth and from August 1938 to 1940 he was finally promoted to Obergebietsführer. He was a member of the NSD-Ärztebund and in 1942 the Reichsärztekammer München.

In May 1940, Hördemann joined the Waffen-SS (membership number 367.367) and was a member of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler until September 1942 . In June 1940 he received the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer . He took part in the attack on the Soviet Union and was seriously wounded in Dobra (Ukraine) in July 1941. Promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer in November 1941 , he came to an SS recovery company on Obersalzberg in February 1942 and in the same year was on foreign service to France, England, Italy, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden and from March 1942 to October 1943 assigned to the Reich Medical Association of Berlin as a member of the SS-Sanitäts-Ersatz-Bataillon Oranienburg. In November 1942 he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer and in April 1943 to SS-Standartenführer .

In October 1943 Hördemann was released from the Waffen SS. He joined the Wehrmacht and was transferred to the military commander-in-chief in Belgium and northern France as a colonel physician in the army . He was only relieved of his post as Reich doctor and head of the Office for Health Management of the Reich Youth Leadership in November 1943.

In 1953 Hördemann moved from Dissen to Kassel and from 1988 lived in the “Gesundbrunnen” retirement home in Hofgeismar .

Act

In his role as Reichsarzt of the Hitler Youth, Höerdemann made a significant contribution to giving the youth doctor and youth medicine a new image and a new status. After his introduction, the youth doctor was on a par with the HJ unit leader as a health leader. Insofar as Hördermann saw the task of “youth health management” in the fact that “the young generation of men [...] should be handed over to the labor service medical officer strong and nimble, tough and tough”, he classified the youth doctor in the system of total Upbringing a. The RJF health department headed by Hördemann comprised three main departments with 36 departments in 1939. As Reich doctor of the Hitler Youth, Hördemann also acted as an advisory doctor to the Reich Health Leader in the Main Office for Public Health and in 1939 suggested the establishment of a "central office" for research into youth medical issues. The HJ health organization was initially primarily concerned with the organization of medical check-ups and the medical care of adolescents in HJ camps. The doctors involved were also instructed to report “genetically ill” and “inferior” adolescents. In 1939, Hördemann explained in a lecture to pediatricians immediately before the start of the war:

“We have no interest in welcoming young people into our community who have physical defects. We have no further interest in the fact that the percentage of those who are unsuitable or partially capable is very large, because if they grow up next to our community, they will one day rebels against our way of life and, moreover, never fully perform for the community of the people against. "

- Robert Hördemann : The Hitler Youth Doctor as a Health Guide (1939)

Fonts

  • A case of teratoma of the thyroid area. Univ., Diss. [1926] - Göttingen, 1925. In: Frankfurter Zeitschrift f. Pathol. ; Vol. 32, 1925.
  • and Gerhard Joppich (ed.): The health management of the youth. Lehmanns, Munich 1939.
  • and Eberhard Kitzing (ed.): Education for health. A handbook for youth educators u. Parents. Reich Health Publication, Berlin 1941.

literature

  • Thomas Beddies: “You have a duty to be healthy!”. The health service of the Hitler Youth 1933–1945. Charité, Univ.-Med., Habil.-Schr .-- Berlin, 2009. Be.Bra Wiss.-Verl, Berlin 2010, ISBN 9783937233628 .
  • Michael Buddrus : Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3598116152 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the registry office Hofgeismar No. 164/1991.
  2. ^ Marion Lilienthal: Hereditary biological selection in Korbach (1933–1945). Racial hygiene, forced sterilization and Nazi "euthanasia" - the delusion of the healthy national body and its consequences. In: Contributions from the archive and museum of the district town of Korbach and the archive of the old state school , Vol. 3, Korbach 2014, pp. 418–419.
  3. ^ A b Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3598116152 , 911, 913, 915f.
  4. ↑ Robert Hördemann, The doctor as a health educator , In: Ders. (Ed.): The health management of youth . Munich 1939, p. 9ff., Quoted. according to Michael Buddrus: total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3598116152 , p. 916.
  5. ↑ Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3598116152 , p. 929.
personal data
SURNAME Hördemann, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hördemann, Robert Rudolf Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, Reich physician of the HJ
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1991
Place of death Hofgeismar