Wilhelm Holzmann

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German building contractor, see Wilhelm Holzmann (building contractor) .

Wilhelm Georg Theodor "Willy" Holzmann (born September 20, 1878 in Hamburg ; † January 26, 1949 there ) was a German neurologist and university professor . As a National Socialist he was a member of the Hamburg citizenship during the Weimar Republic .

Life

After graduating from high school and commercial training, Holzmann studied medicine at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He became a member of the Cimbria Munich fraternity (1901) and the Germania fraternity in Hamburg . After the state examination and the doctorate to Dr. med. he completed his neurological specialist training in Berlin and Hamburg, among others with Eugen Fraenkel and Max Nonne . He was temporarily in Paris .

As a qualified neurologist , he opened a doctor's practice in Hamburg in 1912 . During the First World War , from 1915 until the end of the war, he headed the nerve department of the reserve hospital of IX. Army Corps in Altona .

Politician

Holzmann was a co-founder of the German National People's Party in Hamburg in 1918 . In February 1923 he became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . After the party ban of the NSDAP in the Weimar Republic , he rejoined the NSDAP in October 1927 ( membership number 68.434). Holzmann was the holder of the golden party badge of the NSDAP .

In 1929 Holzmann was one of the founders of the National Socialist German Medical Association . Then he became district chairman of the Nazi medical association in Hamburg. For the NSDAP he entered the Hamburg parliament in 1931 , to which he belonged until 1933. At times he was the first vice-president of the Hamburg citizenship, but without significant influence.

After the victory of the National Socialists in the Reichstag election in March 1933 and the so-called seizure of power , he was appointed Gauamtsleiter of the Race Political Office of the NSDAP in Hamburg in 1933 and of the Office for Public Health of the NSDAP in 1934. In 1933 he had tried in vain by all means to obtain the chair of racial biology. After the Hamburg Medical Association was dissolved on May 26, 1933, a board was set up under Holzmann's leadership. Holzmann also took over the management of the Hamburg Hartmannbund and the local regional office of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians . He also headed the health department at the German Labor Front .

As Hamburg's "doctor's guide", he played a key role in the persecution and elimination of Jewish doctors in Hamburg. As the representative of the Reichsärzteführer and chairman of the Hamburg Medical Association, Holzmann instructed the board of the Medical Association in July 1933 to include anti-Jewish provisions in the statutes.

Holzmann ran unsuccessfully for the Reichstag on April 10, 1938 .

Academics

In 1933, Holzmann was awarded the title of professor by the Hamburg Senate for his “services to the National Socialist movement” . He later gave lectures on racial studies at the University of Hamburg , where he was appointed honorary professor of racial studies by the Reich Minister for Science, Education and National Education in July 1941 . Holzmann's lectures are said to have been regularly interrupted by the students with shouts of "Siegheil, Siegheil".

In October 1940 Holzmann became president of the newly founded colonial medical academy of the NSDAP . In September 1944 he became general leader and deputy leader of the German Red Cross in military district X under the leader and mayor Carl Vincent Krogmann .

post war period

Holzmann was interned in May 1945 . After his release, he was no longer licensed to practice because of his previous position. However, no criminal prosecution was initiated. Holzmann died of emphysema on January 26, 1949 .

Fonts

• Blood pressure in intoxicated alcohol. Schumacher, Berlin 1908.
• Scarlet Fever and Wassermann's Syphilis Reaction. In: Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift. No. 14, 1909.
• Advances in the diagnosis of syphilitic and metasyphilitic diseases of the central nervous system by means of the four reactions: protein increase (Nun - Apelt's phase I.), cell multiplication, Wassermann's reaction in the serum and in the liquor. In: Medicine. No. 9, 10, 1911.
• Diagnostic and therapeutic lumbar puncture. In: New German surgery. NF Vol. 12 (1914), pp. 201-294.
• with Alfred Diller and Catharina Gleiß: Our Hamburg. Seven lectures on Hamburg's historical, political and economic development. Niemeyer, Hamburg 1919.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 392.

Web links

• Holzmann, Wilhelm; 1878- at the Leibniz Information Center for Economics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christine Pieper: The social structure of the chief physicians of the General Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek 1913 to 1945. A contribution to collective biographical research. Lit, Münster / Hamburg / London 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6495-2 (also dissertation at the University of Hamburg), p. 146f.
2. ^ ^{A b c} Winfried Suss : The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939–1945. Munich 2003, p. 468.
3. ^ Eckart Krause, Ludwig Huber, Holger Fischer (eds.): Everyday university life in the "Third Reich". 1. Introduction, general aspects, volume 2. Berlin / Hamburg 1991, p. 1181.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 269.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Eckart Krause, Ludwig Huber, Holger Fischer (eds.): Everyday university life in the “Third Reich”. 1. Introduction, general aspects, volume 2. Berlin / Hamburg 1991, p. 1382.
6. ↑ Henning Timpke: Documents on the conformity of the state of Hamburg 1933. 1964, p. 21.
7. ↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Supplement 3; also dissertation Würzburg 1995), ISBN 3-88479-932-0 , p. 99 f.
8. ↑ Hendrik van den Bussche : The "seizure of power". In: Hendrik van den Bussche (ed.): Medical science in the “Third Reich”. Continuity, adaptation and opposition at the Hamburg Medical Faculty. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1989, p. 45f.
9. ↑ Marlis Roß: The Exclusion of Jewish Members 1935. The Patriotic Society under National Socialism (PDF; 1.7 MB), 2007, p. 29.
10. ↑ Doc. VEJ 1/65: The board of the Hamburg Medical Association resigns in July 1933 because of anti-Jewish amendments to the statutes. In: Wolf Gruner (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (source collection): Volume 1: German Reich 1933–1937. Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58480-6 .
11. ↑ Erich Stockhorst : 5000 heads. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 , p. 207.
12. ↑ Hendrik van den Bussche: The teaching. In: Hendrik van den Bussche (ed.): Medical science in the “Third Reich”. Continuity, adaptation and opposition at the Hamburg Medical Faculty. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1989, p. 390.
13. ↑ Anna von Villiez: Replaced with all might. Disenfranchisement and persecution of “non-Aryan” doctors in Hamburg from 1933 to 1945. Munich / Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-84-9 , p. 74.