Heinz Lord

Heinz Lord ( * 1917 or 1918 in Peru, † February 4, 1961 in Chicago) was a surgeon. In the era of National Socialism, he participated with the White Rose in Hamburg in the resistance against the Nazi regime. In 1960 he was appointed Secretary General of the World Medical Association.

Life

Lord was born in Peru and grew up in Hamburg. He studied in Zurich and Berlin Medicine and graduated in 1942 at the University of Hamburg. Lord rejected Nazism and joined as a young medical assistant in the Department of Surgery University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE ) the candidates of humanity. His keen interest also was the Jazz and he stood near the Hamburg Swing Youth.

In July 1943 he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the police prison Fuhlsbiittel. There was no charge against him, on 6 June 1944, the admission as a protection prisoner in the concentration camp Neuengamme. From there he was transferred to the ship Cap Arcona in April 1945 and was one of the few survivors after the bombing of this floating concentration camp.

After the war he worked at the hospital in Hamburg- Barmbek and specialized in the field of surgery and urology. In 1954 he emigrated to the USA where he received in 1957 the admission as a surgeon. Since 1949, he engaged actively promote the international organization of medicine and was a member of the Marburger Bund. In December 1960, he was appointed Secretary General of the World Medical Association.

On February 3, 1961, he suffered a heart attack during a congress and died the next morning in a hospital in Chicago. He had contracted during his incarceration, chronic heart disease.