Rosemarie Albrecht

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Rosemarie Albrecht (born March 19, 1915 in Kobe , Japan; † January 7, 2008 in Jena ) was a German-Japanese ear, nose and throat doctor . As a professor, she headed the ENT clinics in Erfurt , then in Jena. In 2000, files from the Nazi archives of the Ministry for State Security revealed evidence of participation in euthanasia measures from 1940 to 1942. A case against her was dropped in 2005 due to the age of the accused.

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Marie Johanna Albrecht, called Rosemarie, was born in 1915 as the daughter of a German businessman and a Japanese woman. She grew up in Rostock after the First World War and graduated from high school there in 1935. She studied medicine at the University of Hamburg , the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the University of Rostock . In 1940, she put her state examination in Rostock and was with a thesis entitled The vitamin C content of breast milk before and after cooking to Dr. med. PhD . She then volunteered for the Thuringian State Hospitals in Stadtroda , where she initially worked as a compulsory assistant and then as a ward doctor in a women's ward. It was during this time that the allegations against her were actively involved in the murders of the sick during the Nazi era of Nazi racial politics . In 1942 she was assigned to the ENT clinic at the University of Jena, where she completed her training as an ENT specialist until 1946 . 1948 habilitation them and became a lecturer. In 1952 Albrecht became chief physician at the ENT clinic of the Erfurt municipal hospitals . She expanded the bed area of ​​the clinic and set up an ENT outpatient department. With the establishment of the Medical Academy Erfurt , Albrecht was appointed to the chair for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology. She played an "extremely important part in the design and development" of the modern new building for the ENT clinic at the MAE, which began in 1955 and whose topping-out ceremony took place in 1956. In 1957 she followed a call to the chair of her teacher Professor Johannes Zange at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Albrecht was also elected to the board of the German Society for ENT Medicine and was Dean of the Medical Faculty of the FSU from 1965 to 1967 . At the same time, she held the chair for ENT medicine at the Academy for Medical Training in the GDR and was therefore involved in the development of ENT specialist standards. In 1975 Albrecht retired at the age of 60 .

As a pioneer in the field of surgery , Albrecht performed numerous microsurgical fenestration operations and tympanoplasty in Erfurt as early as the 1950s . Together with VEB Carl Zeiss in Jena , she developed a surgical microscope for this purpose . In the mid-1950s she introduced the microscopic examination of precancerous and cancerous changes in the mucous membrane of the oral cavity and larynx. One focus of Albrecht's operative work was the removal of malignancies of the nasopharynx. She also performed transethmyoid removals of pituitary adenomas . Albrecht reconstructed the ENT ward and set up various functional departments in the clinic.

Euthanasia allegations

In 2000, documents from the holdings of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR were found which provided evidence of Albrecht's involvement in euthanasia measures (overdosage of tranquilizers) during her volunteer time in Stadtroda 1940-42. In 2004 she was on the list of the most wanted Nazi war criminals at the Simon Wiesenthal Center . The Gera Regional Court closed the case in February 2005 because of the “defendants' incapacity to stand trial”.

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  1. ↑ Federal Foundation processing : Biographical database. Mother was Japanese.
  2. ↑ Beatrice Brand (2015): Development of the clinic and chair for ear, nose and throat medicine at the University of Jena from 1957 to 1975, dissertation from the University of Jena, p. 9.
  3. ↑ See also the matriculation of Rosemarie Albrecht in the Rostock matriculation portal : first matriculation , second matriculation , third matriculation
  4. ↑ Tony Paterson: East German doctor faces trial over Nazi murders - Feb. 1, 2004
  5. ^ Efraim Zuroff: Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals (April 1, 2003 - March 31, 2004). An Annual Status Report. (PDF; 615 kB) August 2004, pp. 42–43
  6. ^ Rainer Erices, Antje Gumz: The case of Rosemarie Albrecht: Zu Ende appraised. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . Vol. 102 (2005), H. 33, pp. A-2223-2227.
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SURNAME Albrecht, Rosemary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ear, nose and throat doctor
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobe , Japan
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2008
Place of death Jena