Wolfgang Scholz (doctor)

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Wolfgang Scholz (born June 30, 1906 in Königsberg in Prussia , † August 19, 2002 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor , medical officer and regatta sailor .

Life

After graduating from high school at the Altstädtisches Gymnasium, Scholz studied medicine at the Universities of Königsberg , Munich and Berlin . After the medical state examination, he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He went through the specialist training for internal and lung diseases. He worked as a doctor in Geneva , Labiau , Kiel and Munich. In his capacity as a professional soldier , he became chief physician of the internal department of the hospital in Elbing in 1935 .

During the Second World War he was from October 1940 for two years deputy "Department Head for Science and Health Management of the Army Medical Inspection" and "Advisor for Disease Control". He took part in the typhus conference in the Berlin Ministry of the Interior on December 29, 1941. A week later, medical experiments with typhus preparations began on prisoners in the Buchenwald concentration camp . He was a "close colleague of Siegfried Handloser and organized the Eastern workshops of the consulting doctors". Among other things, he was still a division doctor of the 6th Panzer Division . At the end of his military service he reached the rank of senior field doctor .

From 1951 to 1971 he headed the medical service of the Deutsche Bundesbahn in northern Germany.

Scholz founded the Wehrmedizinische Gesellschaft in Hamburg , in which he initially acted as chairman and finally as a consultant. In addition, as a pensioner, he later founded the Working Group for the History of Military Medicine . In 1987, Defense Minister Manfred Wörner awarded him the Gold Cross of Honor of the German Armed Forces for his services to the Armed Forces Medical Society and his lectureship at the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy .

Regatta sailors

Scholz joined the youth department of the Rhe sailing club in 1920 . From 1937 to 1939 he was the club's most successful sailor and during this time he won the owl cup for most victories as well as the Böhm Cup for most starts. In 1986 he won the club's long-haul price for a trip from Brunsbüttel via Arendal and Smögen to Gelting (770 nautical miles in ten days).

After the relocation of the headquarters of SC Rhe from Königsberg to Hamburg, Scholz was secretary from 1954 to 1965, from 1965 to 1966 and 1968 to 1972 he headed the club as chairman. For his services he was awarded the honorary title of Commodore by the association in 1972 . In 1964 he was elected to the Presidium of the German Sailing Association for ten years . There he worked from 1968 on the driving license regulations of the DSV.

Scholz died shortly after turning 96 on August 19, 2002 and was buried in the cemetery in Hamburg-Rahlstedt .

literature

  • Klaus Peter Scholz, marine painter and sailor in Königsberg Franz Herpel , 2010, epubli GmbH, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86931-326-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Festschrift: 150 Years of the German Military Medical Societies 1864–2014. (PDF) German Society for Military Medicine and Military Pharmacy e. V., p. 99 , accessed on January 3, 2017 ( ISBN 978-3-00-046760-8 ).
  2. ↑ a b c From person to person: Dr. Wolfgang Scholz . In: Ostpreußenblatt , volume 42, October 17, 1987, p. 20
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 557
  4. ↑ Development tape for microfiche edition: With an introduction by Angelika Ebbinghaus on the history of the process and short biographies of the process involved . P. 145. Karsten Linne (Ed.): The Nuremberg Medical Process 1946/47. Verbal transcripts, prosecution and defense material, sources on the environment. Published by Klaus Dörner , German edition, microfiche edition, Munich 2000 on behalf of the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century
  5. ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt 84, Issue 46, A-3154 (92) of November 12, 1987
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Scholz's tombstone. In: Ev. Hamburg-Rahlstedt cemetery. Verein für Computergenealogie eV, accessed on January 3, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, medical officer and regatta sailor
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2002
Place of death Hamburg