Wilhelm Weitz

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Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Weitz (born May 5, 1881 in Pyrmont , † January 24, 1969 in Hamburg ) was a German internist , racial hygienist and university professor.

Life

Wilhelm Weitz 'parents were the spa doctor Carl Weitz (1851–1938) and Sophie geb. Müller (1854-1891). His grandfather was the glass engraver Wilhelm Weitz.

Wilhelm Weitz studied at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . During his studies he became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity in 1901 . Kiel doctorate he 1905 Dr. med. After that he was an assistant doctor in Kiel and a secondary doctor in the Hamburg General Hospital St. Georg until 1908 . In 1912 he became a senior physician at the Medical Clinic at the University Hospital of Tübingen , where he completed his habilitation in 1913 . In 1918 he became associate professor and head of the medical polyclinic . In 1915 Fritz Lenz had become his brother-in-law.

Gravestone Wilhelm Weitz,
Ohlsdorf Cemetery (2018)

Around 1922 he carried out the first systematic family examinations for high blood pressure . He also carried out twin observations. When he was looking for an assistant doctor in 1923, his brother-in-law referred him to Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer . In 1924 Weitz was one of the founding members of the Tübingen Society for Racial Hygiene and became its deputy chairman. In 1927 he accepted a professorship for racial hygiene at the TH Stuttgart and became director of the internal department of the Stuttgart-Cannstatt municipal hospital. He wrote the two chapters "The Inheritance of Internal Diseases" and "Hereditary Nervous Diseases" for the fifth edition of his brother-in-law book Human Heredity and Racial Hygiene . Weitz compared in Hereditary Nervous Diseases “healthy genetic material with a handful of seeds and the disease factor with the seed of a weed”. By 1936 he had published over 80 publications on physiological, internal and human genetic issues.

From 1936 to 1946 he was Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the Institute for Twin and Hereditary Research at the Second Medical Clinic and Polyclinic at the University of Hamburg . Weitz joined the NSDAP in 1937 . He became a member of the SS in 1938 , but left it at his own request in 1943. He was also a member of the Senate of the NSDAP's Colonial Medical Academy .

After the end of the war he was dismissed from his post as a professor, but from 1950 onwards he was considered to be retired . Weitz became an honorary member of the German Society for Internal Medicine in 1959 and received the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1961 .

The grave of Wilhelm Weitz is located in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg at grid square Y 9 (south-west of the north pond ).

Publications (selection)

  • On the etiology of genuine hypertension ; Tubingen, 1921
  • The forecast of arterial hypertension ; 1942

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family Trees  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / emilito.org  
  2. ↑ Heiner Fangerau, dissertation Bochum, p. 47 (2000) (PDF; 938 kB)
  3. ^ NDB to brother-in-law; geneanet.org
  4. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 534.
  5. ↑ Dissertation: About a strange case of syphilis haemorrhagica in an adult
  6. ↑ German biographical encyclopedia
  7. ↑ Footnote in The University of Heidelberg under National Socialism ; P. 722
  8. ^ Tomas Lenz: Hypertension in clinics and practices ; P. 194
  9. ^ Hans-Konrad Biesalski: Nutritional medicine: according to the nutritional medicine curriculum of the German Medical Association ; P. 398
  10. ^ Ernst Klee: German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. 2001, p. 21.
  11. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 665.
  12. ↑ Grave coordinates and picture (2013)
personal data
SURNAME Weitz, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weitz, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Pyrmont
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1969
Place of death Hamburg