Walter Kaldewey
Walther Kaldewey (born December 10, 1896 in Mönchengladbach ; † January 13, 1954 ) was a German psychiatrist who was involved as a T4 expert in the Nazi euthanasia crimes.
Life
Kaldewey took part in the First World War with the rank of lieutenant . After the end of the war, he studied medicine and received his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1923 with the dissertation : Brain puncture for brain tumors as a Dr. med. Kaldewey was an assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in 1930/31 ; Arguments with Oskar Vogt are said to have led to his dismissal. Initially an assistant doctor at the Eickelborn Provincial Sanatorium , he rose there in 1934 to the position of medical director. From October 1936 he was director of the sanatorium and nursing home in Marsberg, and in December 1939 he succeeded Theodor Steinmeyer as director at the sanatorium and nursing home in Bremen, where he held this position until the end of the Second World War . Kaldewey had already joined the NSDAP in 1931 . He was also a member of the SA and rose to senior leader in this Nazi organization. He was also a member of the National Socialist Medical Association and the NSV and was involved with the Public Health Office. From February 28, 1940 to January 29, 1941, Kaldewey was also active as a T4 expert. He also worked on the draft of the euthanasia law that had not come into force.
After the end of the war he was interned in the United States until 1948 and was denazified as an exonerated person after his release in an arbitration chamber procedure . He then worked as a resident psychiatrist in Bremen and also worked as an expert on pension and compensation issues. As an expert reviewer, he largely refused to grant the NS victims who applied for pensions or compensation, often on the grounds that the peers had “emotional enrichment through concentration camp imprisonment” and / or “pension neuroses”.
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Ernst Klee: "Euthanasia" in the Nazi state. The "destruction of life unworthy of life" ; Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1983; ISBN 3-10-039303-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Susanne Heim, Carola Sachse, Mark Walker: The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under national socialism , Cambridge University Press, 2009, p. 117
- ↑ Dt Ärztebl 2001; 98: A 1240-1245 issue 19
- ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 296
- ↑ Joergen Mattenklotz: May it never be forgotten! Psychiatry under National Socialism taking care of nursing into account using the example of the Eickelborn sanatorium , Karin Fischer Verlag, 2006
- ^ Unworthy of life - Paul Brune. Nazi psychiatry and its consequences (PDF; 552 kB), published on behalf of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association by Markus Köster, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-923432-39-9 , p. 16f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaldewey, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaldewey, Walther (alternative spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychiatrist and T4 reviewer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mönchengladbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1954 |