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Hans Heinze, sometimes referred to as ''Euthanasie-Heinze'' ("Euthanasia Heinze"; 18 October 1895 – 4 February 1983) was a Nazi German psychiatrist and eugenicist. In 1997/1998 his rehabilitation as a consequence of the request submitted by a German historian as a means of obtaining research material caused controversy. ==Life== After service as a medical orderly during World War I Heinze trained as a psychiatrist at Leipzig, where he worked from 1924 in child psychiatry. He was later appointed director of the child psychiatry department of the University Clinic in Berlin, and also, in 1934, director of the ''Landesheilanstalt'' in Potsdam, holding the two posts simultaneously. On 2 October 1939 he was appointed Dozent for neurology and psychiatry in the medical faculty of Berlin University, where on 6 April 1943 he became a professor. In November 1938 Heinze took over the direction of the ''Landes-Pflegeanstalt Brandenburg an der Havel'' mental institution, commonly now referred to as the Brandenburg Euthanasia Centre,〔not the same buildings that are now Brandenburg-Görden Prison〕 with about 2,500 patients, 1,000 of them children. Here he supervised the murder by injection, starvation and poisoning of thousands of children whose brains he then supplied to Nazi researchers.〔 He also trained physicians for the T4 Euthanasia Programme. After the war Heinze remained in post at Brandenburg-Görden. The Russians were interested in some of his work and offered him the direction of an institution in the Crimea, but when he turned this down, tried him for war crimes, convicting him on 14 March 1946. He was imprisoned for seven years, mostly in the Soviet Special Camp No. 7 at Sachsenhausen, where he worked as the camp doctor.〔()〕〔(p. 17, Ernst Klee: „Was sie taten – Was sie wurden“, p. 136 )〕 He was released on 14 March 1952 and declined offers of senior medical posts in the Volkspolizei and at the University of Jena in order to return to his family in West Germany. He took up the directorship of the department of child and adolescent psychiatry in the hospital of Wunstorf in Lower Saxony, where he remained until his retirement, and where he died in 1983.〔Ernst Klee: „Was sie taten – Was sie wurden“, pp. 137/138〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hans Heinze」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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