Robert von Werz

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Robert von Werz (full name Robert Werz Edler von Ostenkampf ; born November 7, 1901 in Sarajewo , † October 8, 1969 in Munich ) was a pharmacologist , university professor and medical officer in the Air Force . He resisted National Socialism in the Bavarian Freedom Campaign .

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Robert von Werz was a son of the Austro-Hungarian major general Emanuel Werz, by Emperor Karl I as at 17 March 1918 Edler from east fight was elevated to the hereditary Austrian nobility.

Werz finished his school career in Kronstadt in 1920 with the Abitur . He then completed a degree at the University of Munich , which he graduated with the first state examination in 1927. He completed his medical internship at the University Hospital Munich, received his doctorate there in 1929 with the thesis About the evidence gefäßverengernder substances in the blood to Dr. med. and received his license to practice medicine in 1930 . He then worked at the Pharmacological Institutes of the University of Munich (1929–1931), the University of Cologne (1931–1934), the University of Pécs (1935–1936) and Lund .

During the Second World War , Werz worked from 1942 as a clerk for Georg August Weltz at the research center at the Institute for Aviation Medicine in Munich. Werz took part in the conference on “Medical Questions in Distress at Sea and Winter Death” on October 26th and 27th, 1942 in Nuremberg , where a lecture was also given about the “attempts at hypothermia” in the Dachau concentration camp . From 1944 Werz held the rank of medical officer.

In the final phase of the Second World War, Werz founded a resistance group in the Moosburg prisoner of war camp with members of an interpreting company and imprisoned resistance fighters of the Resistance . This resistance group, headed by Rupprecht Gerngroß , set itself the goal of disempowering the Nazi elite by means of Bavaria's freedom campaign and handing Munich over to the US Army without a fight . For this purpose, Werz negotiated on April 1, 1945 with the commander Alois Braun , who led a tank department in Freising . Braun promised Werz the support of his troops and took part in the failed uprising.

After the end of the war, Werz set up a country doctor's practice in Eittingermoos . After his habilitation in pharmacology in 1950, Werz was a private lecturer and, from 1955, an adjunct professor at the University of Munich. From 1950 to 1963 Werz was a member of the Medicines Commission of the German medical profession.

literature

  • Manfred Heinemann (Ed.): From General Studies to University Reform. The “Oberaudorfer Talks” as a forum for trade union university policy 1950–1968 (= Science and Education Edition. Vol. 1). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-05-002901-3 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= Fischer 16048). 2nd Edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arno Kerschbaumer, Nobilitierungen under the reign of Emperor Karl I / IV. Károly király (1916-1921) , Graz 2016, p. 147 ( ISBN 978-3-9504153-1-5 ).
  2. ↑ a b Manfred Heinemann (ed.): From General Studies to University Reform - The “Oberaudorfer Talks” as a forum for trade union university policy 1950–1968 , Berlin 1996, p. 304f.
  3. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 671
  4. ↑ Forgotten Resistance ( Memento of April 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.6 MB).

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personal data
SURNAME Werz, Robert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacologist, university professor, medical officer and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarajevo
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1969
Place of death Munich