Rudolf Frercks

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Rudolf Frercks (born March 31, 1908 in Kiel , † 1985 in Alfeld (Leine) ) was a German physician and Nazi functionary.

biography

Frercks was the son of a senior city secretary. After graduating from a high school in Kiel, he studied medicine. In 1933 he was approved and obtained a Dr. med. doctorate , the title of his dissertation was "Skull material from Haithabu". Frercks already turned to National Socialism during his studies: From 1928 he belonged to the NS Student Union and at the beginning of July 1931 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 579.674).

From 1933 he worked in the "Enlightenment Office for Population Policy and Race Care" founded by Walter Groß , which was renamed in May 1934 as the " Race Policy Office of the NSDAP ". As a department head of the RPA, he was the liaison officer for genetic and racial matters at the Reich Ministry of Education . Frercks was the author of various publications on race politics, some of which were also translated into other languages. In 1934, together with Arthur Hoffmann, he wrote the text “Erbnot und Volksaufartung”. In 1937 he was co-author of the Nazi propaganda film Victims of the Past, which was shot in the spirit of National Socialist “racial hygiene” . From 1937 he was a consultant in the department for foreign affairs and editing at the RPA; the year before he had taken over the main editorial department of the racial political correspondence abroad. In the RPA, he worked from 1938 as the main office manager in the Reich leadership of the RPA for the area of ​​race and hereditary biology.

From the SA he switched to the SS in 1936 (SS No. 276.970), most recently he was listed as SS Obersturmbannführer and Oberstaffelführer (medical officer ) at the SS main office . He also became a member of the NSV and in 1940 of the NS-Ärztebund .

During the Second World War he did military service as a medical officer in the Navy from March 1940 . On June 6, 1941, he was taken prisoner by the British. According to Klee, he was released from captivity in the late 1940s, Harten et al. indicate the year 1943.

After the end of the war, the internist became chief physician and medical director of the district / city hospital in Alfeld (Leine) .

Fonts (selection)

  • The skull material from Haithabu (excavations from 1902 to 1910) , Kiel 1934 (medical dissertation)
  • with Arthur Hoffmann: Erbnot and popular attitude: image u. Counter-image from d. Life for practical racial hygiene. School Stenger, Erfurt 1934 (= writings of the Racial Political Office RL of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Volume 7).
  • Why Aryan Paragraph? : A contribution to the Jewish question , Verl. Neues Volk, Berlin 1934 (together with Edgar Hans Schulz, published in 7 editions up to 1938)
  • The racial awakening of the German people , propaganda dungeon. P. Hochmuth, Berlin 1935
  • German racial policy , Reclam (No. 7351), Leipzig 1937
  • Racial Politics and Teacher Education . In: Der neue Volkserzieher 1/1934, Issue 2
  • The concept of race calls for a new selection . In: Correspondence for public enlightenment and race care 4/1935

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
  • Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual , Akademie Verlag, Edition Bildung und Wissenschaft Volume 10, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-05-004094-3, ISBN 3-05-004094-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Miehlke: Negotiations of the German Society for Internal Medicine: 92nd Congress. Held in Wiesbaden from April 6th to 10th, 1986 . Springer Verlag, New York / Berlin / Heidelberg / London / Paris / Tokyo 1986, p. XIV.
  2. ^ A b c d Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual , Berlin 2006, p. 376
  3. ^ A b c Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual , Berlin 2006, p. 229
  4. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 164
  5. ^ Who's who in Medicine , 1981, p. 234
personal data
SURNAME Frercks, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic and Nazi functionary
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH 1985
Place of death Alfeld (leash)