Wilhelm Pfannenstiel

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Wilhelm Hermann Pfannenstiel (born February 12, 1890 in Breslau ; † November 1, 1982 in Marburg ) was a German hygienist , university professor and SS standard leader .

Wilhelm Pfannenstiel

Life

The son of the gynecologist Johannes Pfannenstiel graduated from the Landgraf-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Gießen in 1908 and then studied medicine in Oxford , Heidelberg and Munich . There he received his doctorate in 1914. In the First World War he took part as an air officer. He worked as an assistant doctor in Frankfurt am Main , Heidelberg and Münster . In 1927 he qualified as a professor at the University of Münster in the field of hygiene and bacteriology . Until 1931 he worked as a private lecturer in Münster before he was appointed professor of hygiene and head of the hygiene institute at the University of Marburg . In the same year he became Deputy Secretary General of the Balneological Society. He was also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Reich Foreign Transport Association . As early as 1931 he gave a lecture on race and reproductive hygiene in Marburg.

He had been a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg since 1909 and had five children, including the son Peter Pfannenstiel , who later became an expert in thyroid diseases.

Career in the Nazi state

Pfannenstiel became a member of the NSDAP in 1933 . On November 11, 1933, he signed the German professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state . In 1933 he founded a local group of the " German Society for Racial Hygiene " in Marburg . In 1934 he joined the SS (SS No. 273.083). He had been SS-Obersturmbannführer since 1941 and was promoted to SS-Standartenführer in 1944. Pfannenstiel belonged to the Nazi Dozentenbund , NS teacher's union , NS Medical Association and the National Socialist Cultural Association at. He was a member of the Racial Political Office and deputy trainer at the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS . In 1937 he also became a lecturer in aviation medicine and an SS doctor in the Fulda-Werra section. From 1939 he was an advisory hygienist at the SS Sanitary Office. In 1940 he was given leave of absence in Marburg and was employed as a medical inspector in Berlin, where his area of ​​responsibility also included the inspection of the concentration camps in the Generalgouvernement . In 1942 and 1943 he visited the Belzec extermination camp , where he was personally present during the gassing of Jews in August 1942 .

After the Second World War

After the end of the war, Pfannenstiel was released for political reasons and interned by the Americans until 1950. Between 1954 and 1959 he was department head in the chemical-pharmaceutical factory Schaper & Brümmer in Salzgitter-Ringelheim . He was a member of the German Medical Working Group for Herd Research and Herd Control.

Works

  • Contributions to the histological findings on scleral scars after glaucoma operations with consideration of their filtration ability , Munich 1914 (dissertation)
  • The animal experiment bases for the treatment of typhoid and paratyphoid bacilli shedders , Jena 1931
  • Effects of various vitamin intake on the state of health. Elwert`sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1932
  • Animal studies of the effects of mineral water on the blood. State mineral fountain, Berlin 1933
  • Population-political development and racial hygiene in the National Socialist state. In: past and present. 24, 1934, pp. 95-109
  • Recent results of biological healing spring effects. State mineral fountain, Berlin 1937
  • The modern war as a teacher of hygiene. Stalling, Oldenburg 1944
  • About the healing value of West German natural shipping medicinal waters , Cologne 1960

literature

  • Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Second volume: From 1911 to 1971 . Marburg 1979, p. 338.
  • Werner E. Gerabek :  Pfannenstiel, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 298 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Werner E. Gerabek: The Marburg race hygienist and bacteriologist Prof. Dr. med. Wilhelm Pfannenstiel , in: From exclusion to deportation in Marburg and in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district. New articles on the persecution and murder of Jews and Sinti under National Socialism. A memorial book , ed. by Klaus-Peter Friedrich on behalf of the Geschichtswerkstatt, Marburg 2017, pp. 417–424.
  • 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. 129.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 113 , 1145.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 458.
personal data
SURNAME Pfannenstiel, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfannenstiel, Wilhelm Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist and SS standard leader
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1982
Place of death Marburg