Walther Schultze (doctor)

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Walther Schultze (born February 1, 1893 in Idstein , † December 9, 1970 in Gießen ) was a German dermatologist , university professor and National Socialist functionary.

Life

Walther Schultze was born the son of a potash director and was baptized as a Protestant. From 1913 he studied medicine at the Universities of Giessen , Münster and Munich . During the First World War he served as a non-commissioned officer in an infantry regiment. He was damaged in the war and from 1917 worked as a field medical assistant.

After the end of the war he completed his studies with a doctorate to become a Dr. med. from. From 1921 to 1934 he was employed as a senior physician at the University Dermatology Clinic in Giessen. In 1925 he completed his habilitation there with Albert Jesionek on skin and venereal diseases . In 1929 he became a non-official associate professor in Giessen. From 1931 he was a member of the NSDAP , and from 1934 became their confidante at the medical faculty. In the same year he was temporarily deputy head of the University Dermatology Clinic in Frankfurt am Main . In the same year he was able to take up a full professorship at the University of Jena , which he held until 1935. During this time in Jena he set up a department for "asocial sexually ill people" in the Stadtroda psychiatric department .

In 1935 he returned to his home university in Giessen, where he was now a full professor and director of the dermatology clinic associated with the lupus healing center. The Gießen Ordinariate was given to Schultze on the grounds that he was "politically involved in the penetration of the revolution into the university sector".

In Giessen he was now the local leader of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association (NSDDB) and head of the teaching staff (according to Klee, this term of office lasted from 1935 to 1938, according to Grüttner only 1936–1937).

In addition, Schultze was the National Socialist “shop steward” at the university and a member of the National Socialist Medical Association . In 1944 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Plenipotentiary for Health Care.

In 1936, the dermatologist discussed the fight against "anti- social people " with the regional Gauleiter Sprenger, and in the same year he was busy writing a paper in which the "fight" and "forced asylation" of "work-shy, pensioners, alcoholics, impulsive hikers" and other "anti-social" issues.

The victorious Allies removed Schultze from all offices in 1945. But he was able to open a private practice.

literature

  • Helmut Heiber: University under the swastika. Saur, Munich et al. 1991-94, Part I: ISBN 3-598-22629-2 ; Part II, 1 + 2: ISBN 3-598-22628-4 .
  • Ernst Klee: The personal dictionary on the Third Reich: who was what before and after 1945? S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Heiber : University under the swastika. Volume II, 2, Saur, Munich et al. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22631-4 , p. 161.
personal data
SURNAME Schultze, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist and National Socialist functionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Idstein
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1970
Place of death to water