Walter Creutz

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Walter Creutz (born June 28, 1898 in Osterfeld (Oberhausen) , † September 5, 1971 in Neuss ) was a German psychiatrist. He was the psychiatric department head of the Provincial Association of the Rhine Province .

Career

Creutz was the son of a medical councilor Rudolf Creutz and his wife Elisabeth, née Symann. He took part in the First World War. He then studied medicine at the Universities of Münster and Bonn and, after completing his studies in Bonn in 1923, became a Dr. med. PhD . He was also approved in 1923 .

In 1925 he entered the service of the Rhenish provincial administration. Creutz initially worked in the Bedburg-Hau sanatorium and from 1927 Düsseldorf-Grafenberg , where he completed his psychiatric specialist training under Franz Sioli . In 1930 he was promoted to senior physician. In 1934 he completed his habilitation and became a private lecturer at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf .

At the time of National Socialism , Creutz joined the NSDAP in 1933 and the SA in 1936 . From February 1935 he was employed by the Provincial Association of the Rhine Province in Düsseldorf , where he was appointed to the State Medical Council after a six-month probationary period and was responsible for the psychiatry sector in the Rhineland as the medical director. Although not an “zealous National Socialist”, he was considered a proponent of the Nazi genetic health policy, which, according to Schmuhl, combined eugenics and the steps taken during the Weimar Republic to reform psychiatry in one concept. His scientific interest was in the history of medicine and forensic psychiatry. In 1938 he demanded that psychopaths and “inherently inferior” labor be done exhaustively . From May 1939, in addition to his position as medical director, he also held the post of managing director of the Society of German Neurologists and Psychists .

After the beginning of the Second World War , he temporarily did military service as a medical officer (advising psychiatrist) until the beginning of December 1940. In 1940 he was appointed adjunct professor at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf. Until October 1946, Creutz was head of the psychiatry department at the provincial administration. Until his leave of absence in November 1946, he was a prison doctor in Düsseldorf-Grafenberg. From September 1947 to November 1948 Creutz was in custody. Creutz was acquitted on January 27, 1950 in the process of his role in the National Socialist "euthanasia" program. Creutz was employed as chief physician at the St. Alexius hospital in Neuss from 1951 to 1966 .

Creutz is u. a. Author of a history of neurology from the 1st to the 7th centuries.

Walter Creutz was married to Edith Volkmann. Their son, Rolf Creutz, also became a doctor.

literature

  • Hans-Walter Schmuhl : Walter Creutz and the Nazi "euthanasia". Criticism and critical anti-criticism. In: Shadows and Shades - Perspectives on the history of psychiatry in the Rhineland. Münster, 2013, pp. 23–56
  • Hans-Walter Schmuhl: The Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists in National Socialism . Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-48743-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.archive.nrw.de/LAV_NRW/editionPDF?archivNr=185  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archive.nrw.de  
  2. a b Who is who? Volume 17, Schmidt-Römhild, 1971, p. 158
  3. a b c d Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 97
  4. Hans-Walter Schmuhl: The Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists in National Socialism , Berlin and Heidelberg 2016, p. 251
  5. Hans-Walter Schmuhl: The Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists in National Socialism , Berlin and Heidelberg 2016, p. 310
  6. Hans-Walter Schmuhl: The Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists in National Socialism , Berlin and Heidelberg 2016, p. 279
  7. Creutz W. The neurology of the 1st - 7th centuries AD. A historical-neurological study. Leipzig, G. Thieme 1934; Reprint: Amsterdam, EJ Bonset 1966