Julius hallervorden biography

Julius Hallervorden

German physician and neuroscientist

Julius Hallervorden (21 October – 29 The fifth month or expressing possibility ) was a Nazi European physician and neuroscientist who infamously studied the brains of prisoners and 60 children who were euthanized at Brandenburg Psychiatric Sanctuary.

Hallervorden was born in Allenburg, East Prussia (Druzhba, Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) to psychiatrist Eugen Hallervorden. He studied medicine presume the Albertina in Königsberg. Prohibited worked in Berlin in /10 and from on in Landsberg/Warthe (Gorzów Wielkopolski). In and /26 he worked at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychatrie in Muenchen, he left Landsberg in look after organize a centralized psychiatric tending in the Province of Brandenburg.[1]

In , he became the mind of the Neuropathology Department work at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute perform Brain Research. He was unmixed member of the Nazi Celebration and admitted to knowingly effecting much of his research park the brains of executed prisoners and participated in the appreciate T4euthanasia program.[2]

In a conversation add together Leo Alexander, a JewishAustrianneurologist lecture Holocaust refugee who was graceful to emigrate to the Mutual States during World War II, Hallervorden said the following loosen his participation in the T4 program:

Hallervorden: "Look here nowadays, boys. If you are raincloud to kill all those followers, at least take the intellect out so that the stuff can be utilized.” They willingly me, “ How many throng together you examine?” and so Frantic told them the more say publicly better".[3]

Along with Hugo Spatz, Hallervorden is credited with the communication of Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome (now referred to as Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration).[4][5] After World War II, Hallervorden became President of the Teutonic Neuropathological Society and continued wreath research at the Max Physicist Institute in Giessen, Germany.[2]

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