Habs, Horst, 1902-1987

LC control no.	n 83215631
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Habs, Horst, 1902-1987 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Habs, Horst, 1902- Habs, H. (Horst), 1902-1987
Birth date	1902
Death date	1987
Found in	His Die sogenannte Pest des Thukydides, 1982: t.p. (Horst Habs) verso t.p. (Prof. emer. Dr. med.; Bonn-Ippendorf) cover (H. Habs) LC data base, 7-5-83 (Habs, Horst, 1902-) Dr. Habs, German malariologist, 1945: p. 12 (Professor Habs, Director of the Institute of Hygiene of Hamburg, worked in Greece during the war in the Wehrmacht) Medical Science Meets 'Development Aid' Transfer and Adaptation of West German Microbiology to Togo, 1960-1980, Med Hist. 2017 Jan; 61(1): 1-24, PDF viewed July 22, 2017: (Professor Dr med. Horst Habs (1902-87), who had been director of the Hygiene Institute at the University of Bonn since 1958. At that time, this city was the provisional capital of the FRG as well as the seat of the West German parliament, government and ministries. Habs had a long record in politics related to medicine and academia. During National Socialism, he had been a member of the NSDAP, of the National Socialist Association for Physicians (NS-Ärztebund) and of the National Socialist Association for Lecturers (NS-Dozentenbund), and he had also been an officer in the SS. 46 He had taken part in a confidential meeting in 1943, which - among other topics - discussed inhumane experiments concerning sulfonamide and typhus on inmates of German concentration camps. After the war, he advised the new West German army (Bundeswehr) on ways to (re-)establish its medical service)