Walter Ruppin

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Walter Ruppin

Walter Ruppin (born June 22, 1885 in Gutenpaaren , Westhavelland district , † May 3, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German National Socialist and from July 1932 to 1945 a member of the Reichstag .

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After attending elementary school and a grammar school in Brandenburg an der Havel , Ruppin first studied natural sciences and mathematics at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, and later medicine in Breslau and Munich. In 1913 he received his license to practice medicine in Munich. In the same year he received his doctorate with a 33-page dissertation on the topic " Using the protein response of the lung sputum with pulmonary tuberculosis " to Dr. med. in Göttingen. Following this, he completed specialist training for local, school and welfare doctors at the State Medical Academy for Officials in Berlin. In the spring of 1914 he established himself as a general practitioner in Neuhardenberg . From 1914 to 1918 Ruppin took part in the First World War as a military doctor . During the war, Ruppin was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes.

In June 1926, Ruppin joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). He also became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), in which he was employed as a group and standard doctor with the rank of Sturmbannführer in the SA group Ostmark. From 1929 to 1934 he was district chairman of the NSDÄB . In November 1929, Ruppin became a community representative and member of the district council of the Lebus district . In the Reichstag elections of July 1932 Ruppin was a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency 5 (Frankfurt an der Oder) in the Reichstag elected. After his mandate was confirmed in the elections of November 1932, March 1933, November 1933, March 1936 and August 1938, Ruppin was a member of the German parliament for almost thirteen years - from July 1932 to May 1945. One of the most important parliamentary events in which he was involved during his time as a member of parliament was the passing of the Enabling Act in March 1933, which was passed, among other things, with his vote.

After 1933 Ruppin was the company doctor of the Berlin transport company, in 1934 briefly Gauamtsleiter for public health in the Mark Brandenburg, since 1934 also SS-Sturmbannführer in the staff of the SS main office and head of the provincial office Brandenburg of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Germany. According to Kater, Ruppin was also responsible for the arrest of the Jewish doctor Landsberg, whom he accused of embezzlement that he himself had committed. In addition, Ruppin became Landsberg's successor on the board of the medical association for the province of Brandenburg and the border region of Posen-West Prussia. He was also an employee of the Märkischer Adler magazine and holder of the golden party badge .

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  • On the protein reaction of lung ejection in pulmonary tuberculosis , Göttingen 1913. (Dissertation)

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  1. ↑ Winfried Süß: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939–1945 , Munich 2003, p. 473
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , pp. 515f.
  3. ↑ Michael H. Kater: Doctors Under Hitler , 2000, p. 188.
personal data
SURNAME Ruppin, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Good couples , Westhavelland district
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1945
Place of death Berlin