Theodor Gilbert Morell (* 22. June 1886 in Trais today mountain; "† 25. May 1948 in Tegernsee) was a German physician and from 1936 to 1945 body physician Adolf Hitler.

Life and work

Morell put to be Abitur down 1906 in pouring and studied afterwards medicine in pouring, Heidelberg, Grenoble, Paris and Munich, there attained a doctorate it 1913.

Morell was before the First World War two years long on various German high sea-going vessels as a physician on all Weltmeeren on the way. It participated as a war kriegsfreiwilliger in the First World War. After end of war 1918 it opened a practice for urology and electrical therapy in Berlin.

1933 occurred Morell the NSDAP. In the meantime it had opened a practice on the cure prince dam, belonged to its patients many prominent artists and politicians as well as Hitler's body photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. This mediated it 1936 an attendance with Hitler on the Obersalzberg.Da Morell it with its stomach intestine complaints to help could, it from Hitler to the body physician was determined. In Morells documents Hitler always emerges as a "patient A". It remained at Hitler's side by 21 April 1945, when it dismisses completely surprisingly and was replaced by the SS-physician Werner Haase.

Its working methods, among other things a large number of injections, were very regarded by other physicians in Hitler's environment. Thus Morell was made responsible for Hitler's bad state of health of the last years. After searches in primary sources and after interviews with time witnesses of the Morell Biografen Othmar Katz this is not represented to the facts accordingly in other sources than.

Morell was appointed from Hitler to the professor and kept to 1944 the first industrially manufactured and functioning electron microscope given

On 23 April Morell from Berlin gone on a trip, afterwards stopped it a time in the hospital in bath realm-resound yourself. On 17 July 1945 its arrest took place via American crew power. Morell had interned in various camps and died after longer illness in a hospital in Tegernsee.

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