Wilhelm Richter (physician)
Wilhelm Adolf Karl Richter (born November 29, 1892 in Cologne , † March 14, 1944 in Baschtanka ) was a German dermatologist .
Life
Wilhelm Richter received his dermatological training as an unpaid assistant doctor to Professor Max Joseph (1860–1932) in the skin department of the Berlin Surgical University Clinic, the head of which was the surgeon August Bier at the time . At the end of 1931 he received his habilitation and from February 23, 1932 private lecturer in dermatology. In 1932 and 1933 he headed the skin department of the Berlin University Women's Clinic.
Richter was one of the signatories of an appeal for the NSDAP on 5/6. November 1932 and joined the party in 1933. In June 1933 he became the department head for medical affairs in the Reich leadership of the SA and held the rank of SA storm leader in this Nazi organization .
On November 3, 1933, he was appointed associate professor and in 1934 took over the management of the University Skin Clinic in Bonn . On September 25, 1934, he was appointed full professor and he moved to Berlin that same year. On October 1, 1935, Richter was initially appointed to act as the new director and professor of the University Dermatology Clinic in Greifswald . Richter, who also belonged to the Nazi Lecturer Association and the Reichsfachschaft Hochschullehrer , expressed his intention to run the clinic “in the purely National Socialist sense”. On March 1, 1939, he took over this position in full, but signed up for military service in the Wehrmacht on September 15 . In the rank of senior staff physician , Richter took on tasks in the army medical organization; He was also ordered to locate and collect files on Robert Koch in Warsaw .
Richter investigated the effects of chemical warfare agents and also carried out experiments on living people.
On the night of March 13-14, 1944, Wilhelm Richter died in fighting on the Eastern Front near Nikolayev .
Fonts
- Development of the National Socialist Weltanschauung and its influence on science , Universitätsverlag Greifswald, 1936, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 9-g-859732
- Warfare agent effects and healing , JA Barth, Leipzig, 1939
literature
- Christoph Jahr (ed.), Rebecca Schaarschmidt (collaboration): The Berlin University in the Nazi era. Volume I: Structures and People. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08657-9 .
- Wolfram Fischer (Ed.): Exodus of science from Berlin. Questions - Results - Desiderata. Developments before and after 1933. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-013945-6 .
- Klaus Harnack: The skin clinic of the Charité and dermatology in Berlin (1710–1999). BMV, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88040-208-6 .
- 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 .
Web links
- Tabea Kapp: The development of the University Dermatology Clinic Greifswald in the time of National Socialism with special consideration of patient files with the diagnoses syphilis and gonorrhea . Dissertation, University of Greifswald, 2011, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 9-000985-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralph Sommer: Warfare agent tests on living people . In: Nordkurier of April 12, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Judge, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richter, Wilhelm Adolf Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dermatologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1944 |
| Place of death | Bashtanka |