Werner-Joachim Eicke

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Werner-Joachim Eicke (born June 18, 1911 in Berlin ; † November 19, 1988 ) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist.

Life

Werner-Joachim Eicke was the son of the psychiatrist and deputy medical director of the Hufeland Hospital Waldemar Eicke (1877–1973) and Charlotte, née Claus. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the universities of Vienna and Berlin, which he completed in 1936 with a state examination. He was promoted to Dr. med. PhD .

Eike was not a member of the NSDAP at the time of National Socialism , but his “National Socialist attitude” was judged to be “impeccable”. From 1939 Eicke was Julius Hallervorden's assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin-Buch . At the same time, from 1939 to the end of January 1945, he headed the Prosecture Laboratory at the Görden State Institute in Brandenburg an der Havel , a branch of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research. There he dissected corpses and also removed brains from children murdered as part of child euthanasia . In October 1944 , Eicke completed his habilitation with the work “Vascular Changes in Meningitis” on the brains of “deceased” children. In February 1945 he was called up for military service as a military doctor.

After the end of the war, Eicke was in Soviet captivity, from which he was released in 1946. He then worked in the internal department of the Berlin-Westend hospital. From May 1947 he was briefly senior physician under Jürg Zutt at the Würzburg University Psychiatric Clinic at Füchsleinstraße 15 (in 1948 the scientific assistant Werner Eicke is listed there as Dr. med.habil) and from June 1947 in the same position under Karl Kleist at the Frankfurt University Psychiatric Clinic active. There the private lecturer was appointed as an adjunct professor in 1955. From the beginning of June 1955 to the beginning of October 1974 he was director of the State Psychiatric Hospital in Marburg-Lahn. From 1972 he was honorary professor for neuropathology at the University of Marburg .

In the course of a statement made on December 20, 1962 about Nazi euthanasia before an examining magistrate at the Frankfurt am Main regional court , he “did not even know that sick people were exposed to the gas in the old Brandenburg prison ”. He also denied knowledge of this in an interview that was later conducted with Benno Müller-Hill .

Since 1941 he was married to Dorothea, nee Kurtzius. The couple had three daughters and one son. Eicke died in November 1988. He was buried in the Marburg-Ronhausen cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Eicke, Werner-Joachim . In: Herrmann AL Degener , Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? Das deutsche who's who , vol. 21, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1981, p. 249
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 130.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : Irrsinn Ost, Irrsinn West: Psychiatrie in Deutschland , Frankfurt am Main 1993, p. 89
  4. ^ A b c d Jürgen Peiffer: The prosecution of the Brandenburg state institutions and their involvement in the killing actions . In: In: Kristina Hübener (Hrsg.): Brandenburg sanatoriums and nursing homes in the Nazi era (= series of publications on the medical history of the state of Brandenburg. 3). Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89809-301-8 , p. 167
  5. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 22.
  6. ↑ Ernst Klee: What they did - What they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews , Frankfurt am Main 2004, pp. 176, 322
  7. ↑ http://grabsteine.genealogy.net/tomb.php?cem=2412&tomb=50&b=a&lang=de
personal data
SURNAME Eicke, Werner-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1988