Theo Morell

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Hitler's staff in 1940 with Theo Morell (4th from right)

Theodor Gilbert Morell (born July 22, 1886 in Trais , today a district of Munzenberg , † May 26, 1948 in Tegernsee ) was a German urologist. From 1936 to 1945 he was Adolf Hitler's personal physician .

Life

Theo Morell graduated from high school in Gießen in 1907 and then studied medicine at the universities of Gießen (1 semester), Heidelberg (5 semesters) and Munich (2 semesters), interrupted with one semester abroad each at the universities of Grenoble and Paris . In 1907 he joined the Germania Gießen fraternity . In Munich he was in 1913 when Albert Döderlein to Dr. med. PhD . In 1920 Morell married the actress Johanna "Hanni" Moller (1898–1983). The marriage remained childless.

Before the First World War, Morell was a ship's doctor on all the world's oceans for two years . He took part in the First World War as a war volunteer . After the end of the war in 1918, he opened a practice for urology and electrotherapy in Berlin .

In 1933 Morell joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party . In the meantime he had opened a practice on Kurfürstendamm . His patients included many prominent artists and politicians as well as Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann , whose gonorrhea he treated. In 1936 he arranged for him to visit Hitler at the Berghof . Morell was able to help him with his gastrointestinal complaints and was appointed personal physician by him. In Morell's files, Hitler always appears as "Patient A". Morell stayed at Hitler's side until April 21, 1945 when he was unexpectedly released and replaced by SS doctor Werner Haase . Morell was a holder of the Golden Party Badge and in 1944 received the Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross .

His treatment methods, u. a. a large number of injections were viewed with great suspicion by other doctors around Hitler. Morell has been blamed for Hitler's poor health in recent years. According to research by Ottmar Katz , who published a biography of Morell in 1982, this is presented in other sources as inconsistent with the facts. The American psychiatrist and historian Nassir Ghaemi, of the relationship between leadership and mood disorders examined, assumes that Hitler symptoms of manic-depressive illness was caused by Morell's injections of barbiturates and amphetamines were reinforced and the result of methamphetamine - dependent were.

Morell was appointed professor by Hitler in 1938 and received a grant of 100,000 Reichsmarks (391,000 euros ) in 1943 and the first industrially manufactured and functioning electron microscope as a gift in 1944 .

On April 23, 1945 Morell was flown out of Berlin, after which he stayed for a time in the American occupation zone in the hospital in Bad Reichenhall . On July 17, 1945, he was arrested at Munich Central Station . Morell was then briefly imprisoned in the US at the Dachau internment camp . There was investigations into whether he had committed war crimes or crimes against humanity , but the investigation could not prove him.

On June 30, 1947, Morell was admitted to the Tegernsee District Hospital with aphasic speech disorders . He died there a year later at the age of 61.

Others

During the war years , Morell bought factories in Hamburg and Olomouc in the Czech Republic , in which he had hormone preparations , vitamin concentrates and a lice powder called Russla, among other things . Morell himself developed the lice powder for the Wehrmacht . It was effective in a series of tests, but was rejected by the soldiers. It emitted an offensive odor and, to be effective, had to be used when dry. Because of the simple packaging and the conditions under which the soldiers lived, the agent often became damp and therefore ineffective. On the instructions of Hitler, the Wehrmacht acquired the remedy "Russla" on a large scale to avoid typhus transmitted by lice . Morell achieved high income at times. In 1944/1945 a competing product prevailed.

In 1939 Morell bought a villa on the outskirts of Berlin for 300,000 Reichsmarks on a lake plot of more than 10,000 square meters on the Schwanenwerder island at the exit of the Großer Wannsee in the Havel . This villa had previously belonged to a wealthy Jew who had been forced to sell. He owned another villa in the spa town of Heringsdorf on the Baltic Sea. Towards the end of the war , he commissioned the construction of a third villa in Berchtesgaden .

Publications

  • Sixteen cases of abducted lateral position and their treatment in the University Women's Clinic in Munich. Printing of the Strasbourg Latest News, Strasbourg 1913 (dissertation, University of Munich, 1913).

literature

Web links

Commons : Theo Morell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog card for the dissertation ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Quart catalog of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , accessed on December 3, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / quart_ifk.bsb-muenchen.de
  2. ^ Matthias Drobinski : drug war. Uninhibited, euphoric, wide awake - Pervitin was the wonder pill of National Socialism. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 8, 2015, p. 3.
  3. ^ A b c Henrik Eberle, Matthias Uhl (ed.): The book Hitler. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, p. 398.
  4. ↑ Hitler's personal physician: Auf Rotglut. In: Der Spiegel . No. 18, April 28, 1969.
  5. ↑ Nassir Ghaemi: A First-Rate Madness. Uncovering the Links between Leadership and Mental Illness. Penguin Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-1-59420-295-7 , pp. 197 ff.
  6. ↑ Hitler. On the needle. In: Der Spiegel. 7/1980, pp. 85-87.
  7. ↑ Schenck (1998), Prof. Dr. med. Theodor Gilbert Morell , p. 15.
  8. ↑ Gerd R. Ueberschär , Winfried Vogel : Serving and earning. Hitler's gifts to his elites. Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-10-086002-0 .
  9. ↑ a b Derek Doyle: Adolf Hitler's medical care. In: The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Vol. 35 (2005), H. 1, pp. 75-82.
  10. ↑ In the Czech Milo factories, margarine, mustard and vinegar, cleaning and scouring agents etc. were mainly produced. Information according to: Schenck: Prof. Dr. med. Theodor Gilbert Morell. 1998, p. 317 f.
  11. ↑ Schenck: Prof. Dr. med. Theodor Gilbert Morell. 1998, p. 345.
  12. ↑ Schenck: Prof. Dr. med. Theodor Gilbert Morell. 1998, p. 322.
  13. ↑ Schenck: Prof. Dr. med. Theodor Gilbert Morell. 1998, p. 360 f. (The competing product “Delivia” was based on a common raw material of “Russla powder”, but had a different composition; Schenck: Prof. Dr. med. Theodor Gilbert Morell. 1998, p. 361).
  14. ↑ Thomas Loy: Goebbels Garage on offer. In: Zeit Online . May 11, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Morell, Theo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morell, Theodor Gilbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi doctor
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Trais , today Munzenberg
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1948
Place of death Tegernsee