Walter Gross

Walter Gross ( born October 21, 1904 in Kassel, † April 25, 1945 in Berlin) was a German physician and Nazi politician.

Career

Great attended Protestant schools in Posen and Göttingen. From 1923 he studied in Göttingen, Tübingen and Munich medicine. He graduated in 1928 from the state exam and promotion. He then worked until 1932 as an assistant at a Brunswick hospital.

In 1925 he joined the Nazi Party and belonged since 1932 to the Nazi Medical Association. Since 1932 he was also an employee of the department " Public Health " of the national leadership of the Nazi Party. In 1933 he founded the "enlightenment Office of Population Policy and Racial Hygiene ", of which he was well and was renamed in May 1934 in "Race Political Office of the NSDAP ." Since 1936 he was a member of the Reichstag. On February 7, 1940 Rosenberg noted in his diary that he had spoken with Large on the establishment of an Institute of Biology and racial studies. This should equally be closely linked to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Rosenberg wrote in this regard that Eugen Fischer, director of the Institute, " next time come to us " should. The institute was planned biology and racial science in the context of the construction of the High School of the NSDAP. As the seat of the Institute Stuttgart was chosen. 1942 United became the head of the Main Office Science in the Official Rosenberg.

Great died in combat with the already penetrated into the city of Berlin Red Army on 25 April 1945 at his home in Berlin- Schlachtensee. Later, interviewed employees of large spoke of a, this death '.

Effect

Great was one of the most important authors in the initial phase of the National Socialist Monatshefte. He was the author and editor of several anti-Semitic writings as Race and Politics (1934 ), The World upheaval in Jewish Myth (1936) and The racial-political conditions for the solution of the Jewish question ( 1943). In the latter work, which was published by the Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question and laid in Hoheneichen -Verlag, he made himself strong for a "Jew- free " Europe. United 's writings attempted under the guise of science to justify the theses of the Nazi racial ideology, and did to be particularly militant forth.

On March 27, 1941 United made ​​a presentation in which he rejected the distinction between Jews and " Jewish first-degree half-breeds " and their equality, known as " racially politically correct and necessary ". " Half-Jews " were off as " full Jews " from Europe. The " quarter-Jews ", one should keep the increase as low as possible. This paper provided the impetus for a coordinated approach between the Racial Policy Office of the Party Chancellery Martin Bormann and the Reich Security Main Office and led to the proposal, at least in the occupied eastern territories, the " Jewish half-breeds" as " full Jews " to treat. The radical anti-Semitic forces pursued this line at the Wannsee Conference consistently.