Wilhelm Hallermann was a German medical jurisprudence, professor at Kiel University from 1941 until 1971, a member of the Nazi party since 1937 and a SA member since 1933.
Wilhelm Hallermann | |
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.jpg) Hallermann in 1970, photo by F. Magnussen | |
| Born | March 14, 1901 |
| Died | March 28, 1975 (aged 74) |
| Occupation | Medical jurisprudence |
| Known for | Hallermann–Streiff syndrome Work at the Adolf Seefeldt case |
| Honours | 'Ehrensenator' at Kiel University |
Education
editHallermann began his medical studies in 1920 at the University of Munich. This was followed by study visits to Göttingen, Hamburg and Würzburg, where he passed his Staatsexam (state examination) in 1925 and received his doctorate.[1] Hallermann then worked in the pathological-anatomical department of the Dresden-Friedrichstadt city hospital as a senior physician until 1929.[2] After a short time as an assistant and specialist in internal medicine at the Leipzig Medical University Clinic under Paul Morawitz, Hallermann worked at the Berlin Institute for Forensic Medicine from 1931 to 1940. Hallermann also passed his medical examination there in 1932 and completed his habilitation in 1935 with a thesis on “Sudden cardiac death in coronary artery disease,” which was published as a monograph in 1939.[3]
Teaching career
editAfter beginning his teaching career in Berlin in 1935, Hallermann represented the chair for forensic medicine in Frankfurt am Main in the winter semester of 1940/41 after the death of Rolf Hey, and on April 1, 1941, he was appointed director of the Institute for Forensic and Social Medicine at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, initially as an associate professor.[4] In 1946 the professorship was converted into a full professorship, so that Hallermann was now a full public professor. From 1946 to 1969 he was in charge of the student union at the University of Kiel, took over the management of the German Student Union in 1956 and was dean of the Medical Faculty from 1947 to 1949.[5] In 1969, Hallermann was honored with emeritus status and in 1971 he handed over the management of the Kiel Institute to Oskar Grüner.[6]
Hallermann and Nationalsocialism
editHallermann was a member of the National Socialist German Lecturers League and of the SA since 1933.[4] On August 17, 1937, he applied for membership in the NSDAP and was admitted retroactively to May 1 of the same year (with the membership number 4.358.616).[2] From the start of the Second World War he worked in a Military Medical Academy, and starting in 1942 he was also a consultant psychiatrist at the Oberkommando des Heeres (Army High Command) and the Kriegsmarine (The Navy of Nazi Germany).[4]
Adolf Seefeldt
editIn connection with the murder charge against the serial killer Adolf Seefeldt, Wilhelm Hallermann summarized that the eleven-year-old student Gustav Thomas had not been poisoned, but that, based on microscopic examinations, bloodshot pressure points on his neck would indicate strangulation.[7]
References
edit- ^ Schüttke, Godau; Detlev, Klaus (1998). Die Heyde/Sawade-Affäre [The Heyde-Sawade affair] (in German) (1st ed.). Nomos-Verl.-Ges. p. 186. ISBN 978-3-7890-5717-5.
- ^ a b Herber 2002, p. 479.
- ^ "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ a b c Klee 2003, p. 220.
- ^ Herber 2002, p. 178.
- ^ Klee 2003, p. 500.
- ^ "DAS SPIEL IST AUS - ARTHUR NEBE". Der Spiegel (in German). 1949-11-23. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
Bibliography
edit- Herber, Friedrich (2002). Gerichtsmedizin unterm Hakenkreuz [Forensic medicine under the swastika] (in German) (1st ed.). Leipzig: Militzke. ISBN 978-3-86189-249-6.
- Klee, Ernst (2003). Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich [The personal lexicon of the Third Reich] (in German). Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer. ISBN 978-3-10-039309-8.