Philipp Rauh M.A.

Research associate

Philipp Rauh has been a research associate at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine (IGEM) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) since March 2019. Previously, he was involved in DFG projects in Berlin, Freiburg and Erlangen on Nazi "euthanasia", military medicine in the First and Second World Wars and SS doctors in concentration camps. Furthermore, in 2012/13 he researched occupational medicine in the "Third Reich" on behalf of the "German Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine". Most recently, he completed medical history book projects on the medical faculty in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Marburg University Psychiatry in the 19th and 20th centuries, and on physicians as perpetrators under National Socialism.

Since October 2021, Philipp Rauh has been one of the leaders of the joint project "Brain Research at Institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the Context of National Socialist Injustice: Brain preparations in institutes of the Max Planck Society and the identification of victims". He is also currently working on a monograph on the history of family doctors in Baden-Württemberg (1966-2021).

  • Medicine in National Socialism
  • Nazi "euthanasia
  • Medicine and war
  • Medicine and contemporary history
  • History of family doctors
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