Rudolf Ramm

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Rudolf Ramm

Rudolf Ramm (born November 23, 1887 in Löttringhausen ; † August 9, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

The son of a building contractor attended elementary school and secondary school in Witten an der Ruhr. He passed his matriculation exam at the secondary school in Mannheim . After studying medicine and pharmacy in Strasbourg , Munich and Cologne , he received his license to practice medicine as a pharmacist and doctor. In 1913 Ramm joined the infantry body regiment in Munich. From 1921 he worked as a general practitioner; from 1924 he was also a doctor for the Reichsbahn . Ramm was married and the marriage had four children.

Pre-war years as a National Socialist

In 1929 Ramm became a member of the city council of Pirmasens , where he led the NSDAP faction. In February 1930 he officially joined the NSDAP ( membership number 188.829); in 1929, he served as Gauredner occurred the party. In the SS (SS No. 4.176), Ramm worked as an SS standard doctor from 1930. In 1932 he resigned from the SS in connection with their temporary ban. In 1931, Ramm acquired Lemberg Castle near Pirmasens . The planned establishment of a NS-Ordensburg there was not realized.

The Pirmasens NSDAP was deeply divided among themselves. On the night of June 22, 1931, an explosives attack was carried out on Ramm's house, which resulted in minor property damage. The background to the attack cannot be unequivocally clarified on the basis of the incomplete sources. It is considered likely that the attack was organized by SS member Fritz Berni with Ramm's knowledge and was intended as an “advertisement” for Ramm, who had recently replaced his inner-party rival Richard Mann as NSDAP local group leader in Pirmasens. Ramm told the police that he did not know anything about weapons and explosives of the NSDAP, but stated that he could not agree with his concept of honor as an academic to file a complaint in such cases. At the same time, he incriminated a communist worker who had an alibi for the time of the crime.

From July 1931 to April 1935, Ramm was NS district leader in Pirmasens. In the Reichstag election of July 1932 , he was elected to the Reichstag for the NSDAP , which he initially belonged to until the November election of the same year . After several months of absence from parliament, Ramm was re-elected to the Reichstag in the March 1933 election, this time to which he belonged until November 1933. During his time as a member of parliament, among other things, he approved the Enabling Act in March 1933 .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Ramm was first city ​​commissioner in 1933 and, in 1934 - after Otto Strobel's resignation - Lord Mayor of Pirmasens. On March 31, 1937, he was dismissed from office for mismanagement. His successor Emil Gauer was appointed by the Gauleitung to “master” the “radical direction of the party” under Ramm.

Between April 1937 and September 1939, Ramm established himself as a general practitioner in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . At the same time, he became head of the Saarpfalz Chamber of Physicians , head of the Saarpfalz regional office of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Germany, and head of the National Socialist German Medical Association (NSDÄB) in the Rheinpfalz district. As early as 1933 and 1934, respectively, Ramm had held the post of Gauamtsleiter of the Racial Political Office and Public Health. In 1937 Ramm was again a member of the SS, but resigned because he was not satisfied with the rank of Untersturmführer assigned to him .

Second World War

During the Second World War , Ramm advanced to become a multi-functionary in health policy. A stay in Vienna was decisive for his career , where after the " Anschluss of Austria " in 1938 he organized the expulsion and disenfranchisement of Jewish doctors as well as the massive destruction of the writings of the psychoanalytic associations. Ramm was part of a "Palatinate team" led by Reich Commissioner Josef Bürckel . In August 1939 Ramm moved to Berlin, from where he directed the dissemination and implementation of the National Socialist medical ideology. Here he belonged to the leadership circle around the Reichsärzteführer Leonardo Conti , whose commissioner for medical training he was. In addition, he headed the training and propaganda office in the Central Office for Public Health of the NSDAP and the NSDÄB and gave lectures at the German Medical Association's leadership school . In January 1940 Ramm took over the editing of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt ; from May 1941 he was editor of the NSDÄB magazine Die Gesundheitführung - Ziel und Weg .

From October 1940, Ramm held the teaching position for medical law and class at the Berlin University . The medical law and class, first published in 1942, arose from his lecture . The doctor as a health educator , a “handbook of applied Nazi medicine” in which Ramm, like no other author, “presented the principles of this ideology [...] comprehensively, openly and clearly”, according to the medical ethicist Florian Bruns. In the publication, Ramm pointed out several times that a doctor is required to notify patients with inherited diseases, which could result in their forced sterilization in accordance with the law for the prevention of hereditary offspring . Against the background of the Nazi murders in Action T4 , Ramm commented on the “ problem of euthanasia ”: According to Ramm, people who suffered from hereditary diseases and are permanently impaired in their development represent a “heavy burden on the national community ”. In such cases According to Ramm, “euthanasia is undoubtedly appropriate for reasons of humanity. The task of the medical profession is to pave the way for this idea ”. In Ramm's “To the solution of the Jewish question”, published in the Deutsches Ärzteblatt in 1941, there is no explicit mention of a planned murder of the Jews , but the content “hardly permits any other conclusion”, since Ramm rejects or questions other “solutions” , says Florian Bruns. In another magazine article from 1941, Ramm demanded that the “overall solution to the Jewish question in Europe” must “end with the radical removal of the Jews”, a formulation that, according to Bruns, comes very close to the term “ final solution ”.

After the end of the war, a Soviet military court sentenced Ramm to death under circumstances that were not known. He was shot dead in Berlin on August 9, 1945.

Fonts

  • On the histology and histogenesis of the brain cholesteatoma. Dissertation . slea [1920].
  • Six months of medical development work in the Ostmark. In: Ärzteblatt for the German East Mark. Volume 1, 1938, p. 219.
  • Preface to: Hermann Boehm : hereditary health - public health. The principle and application of the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring . An introduction for doctors. (= Professional Political Series. Issue 8). Publishing house of the German medical profession, Berlin / Vienna 1939.
  • Medical law and class. The doctor as a health educator. de Gruyter, Berlin 1942.
  • Guidelines for the ideological training of midwifery students. 1942.

literature

  • Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its divisions in the area of ​​today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate . (= Publications of the Parliament's Commission for the History of Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 28). Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-7758-1407-2 , pp. 371-373.
  • Florian Bruns: Medical Ethics in National Socialism. Developments and protagonists in Berlin 1939–1945 . (= History and Philosophy of Medicine. Volume 7). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09226-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Bruns: Medical ethics. P. 89.
  2. ^ Bruns: Medical ethics. P. 90.
  3. ↑ Niels Weise: Eicke. An SS career between a mental hospital, concentration camp system and Waffen-SS. Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77705-8 , pp. 104, 112, 116f.
  4. ^ Maier: Organization manual. P. 372.
  5. ^ Maier: Organization manual. P. 229.
  6. ^ Bruns: Medical ethics. Pp. 91f, 129.
  7. ^ Bruns: Medical ethics. Pp. 93, 95 f., 99, 129.
  8. ^ Bruns: Medical ethics. P. 126.
  9. ^ Ramm: Ärztliche Rechts- und Standeskunde, p. 103f. Quoted in Bruns: Medical ethics. P. 121.
  10. ^ Bruns: Medical ethics. P. 101.
  11. ^ Bruns: Medical ethics. P. 129.
personal data
SURNAME Ramm, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Lottringhausen
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1945
Place of death Berlin