Siegfried Ernst

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Siegfried Ernst (* 2. March 1915 in Ulm , † 7. May 2001 ) was a German doctor , church leaders and Life Protection - activist .

Life

Siegfried Ernst came from a German nationalist family . Before graduating from high school in Ulm, he joined the Sanitäts-SA in May 1933 as a senior prime minister and - predated April 28, 1933 - the NSDAP .

From 1934 to 1939 he studied human medicine at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the University of Rostock, and at the beginning of his studies he became a member of the Tübingen Normannia , a connection that was still strong at the time. During his studies he joined the Oxford Revival group . In February 1939, a play he wrote together with Robert Uhland was performed at the university. "Faust IV. Part or: The Spirit of the 21st Century" was a satirical examination of the National Socialist worldview. The performance was astonishingly without consequences for him. In 1939 he received his license to practice medicine .

After that he was an assistant at the surgical university clinic in Munich until May 1941 .

In the Second World War he served as a medical officer, a troop doctor and later a surgeon in field hospitals in the Wehrmacht , but was observed because of his opposition to the mass liquidation of the mentally ill and Jews and the treatment of the civilian population in the east Himmler ”. After he fled to the Czech Republic in 1945 , he returned to Germany after the war.

1962 to 1975 he was city ​​councilor of Ulm . In 1964 he was one of the initiators of the Ulmer memorandum , a protest by doctors against the propagation of birth control pills as "consumer products and Genußgut" (in The greatest miracle is man, p.11), "the largest Auschwitz European history", "mass murder in Mother's womb ”and founded Aktion Ulm 70 against the release of abortion . In 1970 he sued Oswalt Kolle twice, unsuccessfully, for the film Your Man, the Unknown Being, on pornography . In 1971 he became a member of the regional synod of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg and worked with the Munich CSU city councilor Dietrich Geißler for a “Christian voter initiative human dignity”.

In 1974 he wrote in The greatest miracle is man (p. 85 ff.): "Modern sexualism is not a natural phenomenon, but an infectious mental illness of society that dissolves families and destroys culture." He was of the opinion that permissive sexuality caused harm and clearly opposed the exercise of sexual pleasure, including contraception. In 1995 he converted to the Catholic Church because of theological knowledge, reasons of conscience and because of a gay service in Rome in Ulm .

Ernst was Vice President of the World Federation of Doctors Who Respect Human Life and Chairman of the European Doctors Action . He had been married since 1942 and had children. From 1979 was the editor of the journal medicine and ideology.

Awards

  • 1953: L'éducation au civisme - Ordre National de Romarin
  • 1996: Honorary doctorate from the International Academy of Informational Processes and Technology

Fonts (selection)

  • Attack on the progressive sex paralysis of society . Editing of the Notgemeinschaft Evangelischer Deutscher eV, Bernhausen 1971.
  • The greatest miracle is man. Answer to the sexual counter-evolution . Martin-Verlag Berger, Buxheim 1974, ISBN 3-7865-0000-2 .
  • Yesterday's science as today's ideological fallacy. Thoughts on Modern Religious Education . Europ. Doctors' action , Ulm-Danube 1977.
  • Evangelical thoughts on the question of the Petrine office and the "infallibility in doctrine and custom" . Christiana-Verlag, Stein am Rhein 1982, ISBN 3-7171-0822-0 .
  • Yours is the kingdom. From God's plan with d. People and ideologies . Christiana-Verlag, Stein am Rhein 1982, ISBN 3-7171-0828-X .
  • The bulge. At the tropic of Limerick . Weingärtner, Neuss 1986, ISBN 3-9801236-0-X .
  • Educational goal life. Adamas, Cologne 1987, ISBN 978-3925746345 (with Elisabeth Schmitz, Bernhard Kotulla and Reinhard Löw)
  • On the way to the universal church. Reasons for converting to the Catholic Church . Christiana-Verlag, Stein am Rhein 1998, ISBN 978-3-7171-1044-6 .
  • With God in the rearview mirror. Memories from the war and the post-war period . Hess, Ulm 1998, ISBN 3-87336-270-8 .

literature

  • Arnold Guillet : For the Kingdom of God. A tribute to Dr. Siegfried Ernst (obituary). In: Lebensforum 4/2001, p. 40 ( PDF ( Memento of December 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )).
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 90 f .
  • Andreas Mettenleiter : Testimonials, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements II (A – H). In: Würzburg medical history reports. 21, 2002, pp. 490-518, here p. 503.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siegfried Ernst: With God in the rearview mirror . Hess, Ulm 1998, pp. 34-35.
  2. ↑ Siegfried Ernst: With God in the rearview mirror . Hess, Ulm 1998, p. 8.
  3. ↑ Uwe Dietrich Adam, Wilfried Setzler: University and National Socialism: d. Univ. Tübingen in the Third Reich . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1977, ISBN 978-3-16-939602-3 , pp. 110 ( google.de [accessed on November 29, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Uwe Dietrich Adam, Wilfried Setzler: University and National Socialism: d. Univ. Tübingen in the Third Reich . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1977, ISBN 978-3-16-939602-3 , pp. 111 ( google.de [accessed on November 29, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Eva-Maria Silies: love, lust and Load: The pill as female generation experience in the Federal Republic from 1960 to 1980 . Wallstein Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-2090-1 , p. 209 ( google.de [accessed on November 29, 2019]).
  6. ↑ : Abortion: Mass Murder or a Private Matter? In: Spiegel Online . tape 21 , May 21, 1973 ( spiegel.de [accessed on 29 November 2019]).
  7. ↑ a b c Simone Mantei: No and yes to abortion: the Protestant church in the reform debate about [Paragraph] 218 StGB (1970-1976) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, ISBN 978-3-525-55738-9 , pp. 133 ( google.de [accessed on November 29, 2019]).
  8. ↑ PERSONNEL: Willy Brandt, Peter Mende, Hans-Joachim Hille, Walter Möller, Siegfried Ernst, Elke Sommer, Joe Hyams, Franz Hengsbach . In: Spiegel Online . tape 39 , September 21, 1970 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 29, 2019]).
  9. ^ A b Eva-Maria Silies: Love, lust and burden: The pill as a female generation experience in the Federal Republic of 1960-1980 . Wallstein Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-2090-1 , p. 193 ( google.de [accessed on November 29, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernst, Richard Christian Siegfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, church politician and activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2001