Friedrich wegener biography
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Friedrich Wegener
German pathologist (1907–1990)
Friedrich Wegener (7 April 1907, Varel – 9 July 1990, Lübeck, [veːɡɐnəɐ̯]) was a German pathologist who is notable for being a high-ranking Nazi physician and for his description of a rare disease originally referred to Wegener disease and now referred to as granulomatosis with polyangiitis. Although this disease was known before Wegener's description, from the 1950s onwards it was generally referred to as Wegener's granulomatosis.[1]
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Friedrich Wegener was born on 7 April 1907 in Varel, Oldenburg, Germany. His father was a doctor and his mother a Swedish gymnastic director.[2]
World War II era
[edit]More detail about aspects of Wegener's biography during the Nazi regime first became available in 2006.[3] Wegener joined the Nazi Party in 1932.[1] Specifically, he was a member of the Sturmabteilung, a paramilitary branch of the Nazi party
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Biography
- Born on April 7, 1907, Varel, Germany
- 1927-1932 Medical student in Munich and Kiel
- 1931 – German champion in Schleuderball
- 1932 – Member of the Sturmabteilung (Braunhemden or’brown-shirts’), the paramilitary storm troopers of the early Nazi movement
- 1933 – Assistant at the Pathological Institute, University of Kiel under Prof Martin Staemmler (1890–1974) an ardent supporter of the Nazi regime
- 1934 – MD thesis entitled ‘Testicular Tumour’
- 1935 – Assistant at the Pathological Institute at Breslau University under Prof Martin Staemmler.
- 1938 – German medical corps, SA-Sanitäts-Obersturmführer (lieutenant colonel)
- 1939 – Military pathologist, Lodz (renamed Litzmannstadt in occupation). Members of his office allegedly conducted research on embolism, injecting oxygen into the bloodstream of some prisoners and selecting victims to be killed in hospitals and concentration camps. There are
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Friedrich Wegener
Friedrich Wegener worked in Berlin, Breslau and Lübeck. He worked in Breslau when he first described the condition that carries his name.
After World War II Friedrich Wegener was suspected of being a war criminal. He was interned bygd the Allies but was later cleared of the charges and "denazified". However, later researches have revealed that Wegener was a dedicated Nazi. As early as in 1932, eight months before Hitler came to power, he joined the S.A (Sturmabteilung) and became a member of the Nazi party on May 1, 1933. According to documents found bygd Alexander Woywodt in the Bundesarchiv, Wegener in 1938 became SA Sanitäts-Obersturmbannführer.
After the outbreak of the war, Wegener worked as a military pathologist in Lodz, where he also held a position in the Gesundheitsamt. The first closed Jewish ghetto of the Third Reich had been established in Lodz. Less than 1.000 of the 250.000 prisoners held there survived the genocide, which was carried out in the dea