Walter Koennecke

Walter Koennecke (born August 30, 1887 in Braunschweig , † December 15, 1951 in Bad Zwischenahn ) was a German physician .

Koennecke was after the successful 1912 medical doctoral thesis on the issues raised in the years 1910 and 1911 in the surgical clinic at Göttingen Perityphlitisfälle About as an assistant at the Department of Surgery at Göttingen operates. After gaining practical experience, he also worked as a private lecturer at the University of Göttingen . After the end of the war, he was appointed senior physician at the surgical clinic to succeed Prof. Fromme. His main research interests include a. the experimental innervation disorders of the stomach, intestines and kidneys, about which he published several times. In 1925 he moved as a doctor to Oldenburg at the Evangelical Hospital, where he was given the title of professorled. In Oldenburg he was jointly responsible for the implementation of racial hygiene and forced sterilization during the Nazi era.

In 1925 he bought a villa in Oldenburg on Rostenstrasse (Raiffeisenstrasse), which he sold in 1950 and which later became known as the Cafè Hassenbürger and is now part of the city ​​museum .

Since 1932 he was Walter Koennecke as Der Unfrüdliche member of the Oldenburg Literary Society.

After 1933 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3.730.675) and the SS (SS number 116.349) and on April 20, 1942 was promoted to Sturmbannführer in the 24th standard "Ostfriesland".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Finding aid for the archives of the Oldenburg Society for Family Studies, holdings M, p. 60.
2. ↑ http://www.stachel.de/03.08/8nseuth.html Medicine without humanity
3. ↑ http://www.alt-oldenburg.de/straen-lz/rosen--raiffeisenstrae/cafe-hassenbuerger/index.html Cafe Hassenbürger
4. ↑ Oldenburgisches Jahrbuch, 1998, p. 65.