Wilhelm Krüger (veterinarian)

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Wilhelm Heinrich August Johannes Krüger (born November 26, 1898 in Grevesmühlen ; † July 3, 1977 in Berlin ) was a German veterinarian , university professor and National Socialist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Krüger took part in the First World War as a war volunteer from 1917 . From April 1918 he studied at the Military Veterinary Academy in Berlin. After the dissolution of this institution, he moved to the University of Veterinary Medicine in Dresden in 1919 and then to the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover . He was promoted to Dr. med. vet. PhD and approved . He then practiced as a veterinarian. In December 1923 he emigrated with his family to the USA , where he a. a. when furrier was employed. In the spring of 1925 he returned to Germany and became an assistant at the Institute for Anatomy at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover, where he completed his habilitation in veterinary medicine in 1929 . He gave up his plan to take the veterinary council exam in 1930 as a result of his appointment to the chair for veterinary anatomy at the Berlin Veterinary College . He also became director of the local anatomical institute. His specialty was the comparative anatomy of domestic animals, especially horses.

Krüger joined the NSDAP in March 1933 . He also became chairman of the National Socialist Teachers' Association at the Veterinary University in Berlin. He was also a member of the Kampfbund for German Culture and was an honorary member of the German Society for Hunting . He joined the SS in 1940, where he received the rank of Untersturmführer in the Race and Settlement Main Office in 1942 .

From April 1933 until this university was incorporated into the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in November 1934, Krüger was rector of the Berlin Veterinary University. He then worked until 1945 as a full professor of veterinary anatomy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, where he also became dean and vice dean of the agricultural and veterinary faculty. At the beginning of April 1935 he succeeded Eugen Fischer against the vote of the professors as rector of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and held this office until the end of March 1937. During his inaugural speech he appeared in SA uniform . As rector, Krüger devoted himself to the National Socialist reorganization of the university. During his tenure, he formulated the goal: "A student who does not consider it necessary to join the ranks of Adolf Hitler's political soldiers should no longer be worth studying at the University of Berlin in future." His nickname was The four-legged rector , because he researched especially the anatomy of horses.

After the end of the Second World War , Krüger was dismissed from the University of Berlin. He made his living as a furrier in Lüneburg and Hamburg . A stay abroad in Sweden followed from 1947 to 1950 . In his denazification process he became in 1950 first as a fellow traveler , 1951 Relieved classified. From 1952 to 1954 he was employed by the Federal and Research Institute for the Dairy Industry in Kiel and then moved back to Berlin. Since 1955 he received pension payments under the federal law on Article 131 of the Basic Law . Krüger was the author of various specialist articles. He was retired from the Free University of Berlin in 1959 . Shortly before his death in 1976, he wrote the manuscript My Life. Life confession of a National Socialist .

Fonts

  • Instructions for preparation: A practical guide for students of veterinary medicine , M. & H. Schaper, Hanover 1929 (together with Otto Zietzschmann - published five times until 1975)
  • Our horse and its ancestors , J. Springer , Berlin 1939 (belongs to Understandable Science, Vol. 41)
  • The Locomotion of the Horse , Parey , Berlin 1939 (belongs to the instructions of the German Society for Breeding Studies; H. 43)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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 , p. 101.
  2. ^ A b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 344
  3. ↑ Quoted from: Helmut Heiber: Universität unterm Hakenkreuz , Part II: The Capitulation of the High Schools , Vol. 2, Munich, Saur, 1994, p. 435
  4. ^ Wilhelm Krüger. In: Archive of Social Democracy . Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , accessed on July 7, 2015 (bequests and deposits).
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krüger, Wilhelm Heinrich August Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian, university professor and National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Grevesmühlen
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1977
Place of death Berlin