Wilhelm Hallermann (forensic doctor)

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Wilhelm Hallermann

Wilhelm Hallermann (born March 14, 1901 in Arnsberg / Westphalia; † March 28, 1975 in Kiel ) was a German forensic doctor and university professor.

education

Hallermann began studying medicine at the University of Munich in 1920. This was followed by study visits to Göttingen, Hamburg and Würzburg, where he passed his state examination in 1925 - together with the later euthanasia expert Werner Heyde - and became a Dr. med. PhD .

Hallermann then worked in the pathological-anatomical department of the Dresden-Friedrichstadt City Hospital under Georg Schmorl until 1929 , most recently as senior physician. After a short time as an assistant and specialist in internal medicine at the Medical University Clinic in Leipzig under Paul Morawitz, Hallermann worked from 1931 to 1940 at the Berlin Institute for Forensic Medicine under Victor Müller-Heß . It was there that Hallermann passed his medical examination in 1932 and completed his habilitation in 1935 with a thesis on "Sudden cardiac death in coronary vascular diseases", which was published in 1939 as a monograph .

Teaching

After starting his lectureship in Berlin in 1935, Hallermann represented the chair for forensic medicine in Frankfurt am Main in the winter semester 1940/41 after the death of Rolf Hey , and became director of the Institute for Forensic and Social Medicine at Christian on April 1, 1941 -Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , initially as an associate professor.

In 1946 the professorship was converted into a full professor, so that Hallermann was now a full public professor. From 1946 to 1969 he was in charge of the student union at the University of Kiel, took over the management of the German student union in 1956 and was dean of the medical faculty from 1947 to 1949.

In 1969 Hallermann retired with great honor and in 1971 also gave up the management of the Kiel Institute.

time of the nationalsocialism

Hallermann was a member of the NS-Dozentbund and "since 1933 in the SA, since 01.05.1937 in the NSDAP , membership number 4358616"

In 1937, the year he joined the NSDAP , Dr. Hallermann in the entry "The emasculation in particular" in the concise dictionary of jurisprudence detailed the medical concerns and restrictions that, in his opinion , should be considered with the forced castration that has been possible since 1934 . In conclusion, however, he referred to the goals aimed at by the legislature in order to then sum up:

“The threat and execution of emasculation is undoubtedly also an exemplary deterrent for those with a tendency to sex crimes, the educational value of which is not to be underestimated. Assuming a suitable selection of the cases, it represents an ideal solution and a measure that completely fulfills its purpose, the safeguarding of the general public, which could only be carried out by an authoritarian government. It would be a mistake to raise petty concerns here or to overemphasize what is self-evident, namely that experience must be gained in this new area in order to achieve the achievable desired success. "

The extent to which Hallermann promoted forced castration in practice as an expert can only be demonstrated by evaluating the numerous original files in the state archive in Schleswig.

Between 1941 and 1945 Hallermann alone prepared 97 of the total of 167 reports for the Kiel Special Court and wrote several reports that contained Hallermann's political devaluations, especially in insidious cases, which the Special Court adopted literally in the judgment.

During the Second World War , he worked in the Military Medical Academy from 1939 and, from 1942, in addition to his teaching activities, he was also a consultant psychiatrist with the Army High Command and the Navy .

In 1964 he prepared an expert opinion in which he could not see any abnormalities in the medical records of the 216 children killed in the children's department of Schleswig as part of euthanasia . The prosecutor then did not bring charges. Hallermann knew that Werner Heyde, deeply involved in the Nazi euthanasia murders, lived and practiced under the pseudonym Fritz Sawade before his arrest .

Activity as an expert

In connection with the murder charge against the serial killer Adolf Seefeldt , Wilhelm Hallermann summed up that the eleven-year-old student Gustav Thomas had not been poisoned, but that, on the basis of microscopic examinations, bloodshot bruises on the neck would indicate strangulation.

Honors

Hallermann was a (honorary) member of numerous scientific societies and academies, including the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (election 1964, Section of Forensic Medicine), German Society for Sexual Research (1964 to 1969 on the board, from 1966 chairman) and the German Criminological Society , as well as the recipient of several awards, including an honorary senator of Kiel University.

literature

  • Georg Bittner: The Heyde case or the misunderstood collegiality. In: Medical communications. Vol. 46, Issue 31, 1961, pp. 1711-1717.
  • Joachim Gerchow : In memoriam: Wilhelm Hallermann. In: Negotiations of the German Society for Pathology. Vol. 61/1977, Verlag Elsevier, Urban & Fischer, Munich / Jena 1977, pp. 499-501.
  • Klaus-Detlef Godau-Schüttke: I only served the law. The "renazification" of the Schleswig-Holstein judiciary after 1945. Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993, ISBN 3-7890-2935-1 .
  • Klaus-Detlef Godau-Schüttke: The Heyde / Sawade affair. How lawyers and medical professionals covered the Nazi euthanasia professor Heyde after 1945 and remained unpunished. 2nd Edition. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-5717-7 .
  • Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. 1st edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Uli Poppe: "As the expert aptly says." The importance of forensic medical reports for the case law of the special court. In: Robert Bohn , Uwe Danker (ed.): "Standgericht der Inner Front" - The special court Altona / Kiel 1932-1945. IZRG series of publications Vol. 3, Results-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-87916-052-X , pp. 276-324.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Godau-Schüttke Heyde / Sawade-Affäre 2001, p. 186. Sa: Investigation report, vol. 2, - interrogation on February 22, 1961, p. 289.
  2. ↑ Herber Hakenkreuz 2002, note 49, p. 479.
  3. ↑ Gerchow In memoriam 1977, p. 500.
  4. ^ Hallermann (Ed.) Institut 1968, p. 4.
  5. ↑ Hallermann (Ed.) Institut 1968, p. 4 + Appendix II.
  6. ↑ Klee Personenlexikon 2003, p. 220.
  7. ↑ Herber Hakenkreuz 2002, note 49, p. 479; Hallermann (Ed.) Institut 1968, p. 4.
  8. ^ Hallermann (Ed.) Institut 1968, p. 4; Klee: dictionary of persons. 2007, p. 221.
  9. ↑ Gerchow in Memoriam, 1977, p. 500.
  10. ^ Hallermann (ed.) Institute 1968, p. 2.
  11. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 178; Klee: dictionary of persons. 2007, p. 221.
  12. ↑ Klee: Personal Lexicon. 2007, p. 221; Gerchow In memoriam 1977, p. 500.
  13. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer Verlag 1st edition, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 220.
  14. ↑ Herber: Swastika. Note 49, p. 479; Quotation from the University Archives Berlin: Personal files PA H62, Vol. II, Bl. 76 (curriculum vitae of Dr. Wilhelm Hallermann).
  15. ↑ Hallermann 1937, p. 378.
  16. ↑ z. E.g .: LAS Department 47.14 Forensic Medicine
  17. ↑ Klaus-Detlef Godau-Schüttke: The Heyde / Sawade Affair, 2001, p. 105.
  18. ↑ Uli Poppe: As the expert aptly says. 1998, pp. 276-324.
  19. ^ A b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 220f.
  20. ^ Page of the Kiel University of Applied Sciences on the Schleswig Children's Department
  21. ↑ Der Spiegel : The Game is Over - Arthur Nebe. Glory and misery of the German criminal police . Edition 48/1949 of November 24, 1949, accessed August 30, 2013
  22. ^ Member entry of Wilhelm Hallermann at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 29, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Hallermann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and coroner
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsberg
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1975
Place of death Kiel