Willy Usadel

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Willy Heinrich Paul Usadel , also Willi Usadel (born July 16, 1894 in Gumbinnen , East Prussia , † March 24, 1952 in Erlangen ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

Willy Usadel, Georg Usadel's older brother , began studying medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg after graduating from high school . In 1914 he became a member of the Teutonia Königsberg fraternity . In the First World War , Usadel served in the German Army , at the end of which Usadel was taken prisoner of war. Most recently he was a medical officer in the reserve and a senior physician. After his release, he continued his medical studies in Königsberg. In 1923 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . Afterwards Usadel worked as an assistant doctor in Königsberg under Martin Kirscher . After Kirscher had received a call to the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen in 1924 , Usadel followed him. After his habilitation in 1928 at the University of Tübingen, he taught as a private lecturer.

Since 1933 associate professor , Usadel became head of surgery at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin in the same year . As early as 1934 he took over the chair for surgery at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . As director of the Surgical University Clinic in Tübingen, Usadel was jointly responsible for the forced sterilization of 500 men. Usadel had been a member of the NSDAP since 1931 . In March 1933 he signed the declaration of 300 university lecturers for Adolf Hitler . As a member of the Sturmabteilung he reached the rank of SA-Obersturmführer in 1937. He was an SA doctor for special purposes. He was also a member of the National Socialist German Medical Association . From 1944 he was leader of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association in Tübingen.

During the Second World War he also worked as a consultant surgeon . After the war, Usadel was taken prisoner by the French. Due to his membership in Nazi organizations, he was relieved of his duties as professor at the University of Tübingen. He then worked as chief physician at the Freudenstadt District Hospital.

literature

  • Karl Philipp Behrendt: War surgery from 1939–1945 from the point of view of the consulting surgeons of the German army in World War II , medical dissertation at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Freiburg i. B. 2003 (pdf)
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 637 (entry: Georg Usadel).
  2. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 537.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Kirschner's bone bolting in lower leg amputations .
  4. ↑ a b c d Karl Philipp Behrendt: War surgery from 1939–1945 from the perspective of the consulting surgeons of the German army in World War II , Freiburg 2003, p. 246.
  5. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 637.
  6. ↑ Report of the 'University of Tübingen in National Socialism' working group on forced sterilization at the University of Tübingen , Tübingen, April 2008, p. 6 (pdf)  ( 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: Toter Link / www.nationalsozialismus.uni-tuebingen.de  
personal data
SURNAME Usadel, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Usadel, Willy Heinrich Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon, university professor and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Gumbinnen , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1952
Place of death gain