Bruno Rothardt

Bruno Rothardt
SS-Brigadeführer Dr. med. Rothardt
Birth name	Bruno Karl Hermann Czerwinski
Birth date	21 August 1891(1891-08-21)
Place of birth	Danzig, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Death date	28 April 1980 (aged 88)
Place of death	Niefern-Öschelbronn, Republic of Austria
Allegiance	German Empire (to 1918) Weimar Republic (to 1933) National Socialist Germany
Service/branch	Imperial German Army Sturmabteilung Luftwaffe SS
Years of service	1914–1945
Rank	Assistentarzt der Reserve SA-Sanitäts-Gruppenführer Stabsarzt der Reserve SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Iron Cross War Merit Cross
Relations	∞ 31 July 1920 Ella Hedwig Wille

Bruno Karl Hermann Czerwinski, since 2 June 1936 Rothardt (21 August 1891 – 28 April 1980), was a German physician and military doctor (Sanitätsoffizier) as well as SA and SS officer in World War II.

Military career (chronology)

Bruno Czerwinski (later Rothardt) in c. 1916

III. Course at the SS Medical School in Berlin in 1938, including Bruno Rothardt

• Spring 1910 Abitur
• 1910 to 1913 Medical studies
• 2 August 1914 Volunteer with the Grenadier-Regiment „König Friedrich I.“ (4. Ostpreußisches) Nr. 5 (Prussian Army) in Danzig
  • War service with the Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 227 (Western Front), with the Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment 232 and the Reserve-Lazarett II in the Landhausschule (elementary school) in Heidelberg (Landhausstraße)
• 1917 Received his doctorate with his dissertation Beziehungen des Hohlfusses zur statischen Mechanik (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
• August 1918 to 24 February 1919 Prisoner of war
• 1 Januar 1931 Joined NSDAP (NSDAP-Nr.: 430.880) and SA
  • November 1931 Gau storm doctor
• 1 July 1932 Group doctor (Gruppenarzt) of the SA Group Pomerania
• August 1933 to 1 November 1935 Head of the Pomerania State Office in Stettin of the KVD and Chairman of the Admissions Committee of the Pomerania State Office of the German Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVD)
  • Amtsleiter der Landesstelle Pommern in Stettin der KVD und Vorsitzender des Zulassungsausschusses der Landesstelle Pommern der Kassenärztlichen Vereinigung Deutschlands (KVD)
• December 1935 Supplemental officer of the Luftwaffe
• 31 March to 30 June 1936 At the same time at the disposal (z. V.) of the SA-Gruppe Berlin-Brandenburg
• 1 August 1936 joined Allgemeine SS (SS-Nr.: 276.754) as SS-Sturmbannführer
  • Head of the Main Department (Hauptabteilung) "Care and Provision" (Fürsorge und Versorgung) with the Staff of the SS-VT
• 14 December 1938 to 10 October 1939 Head of the medical department of the SS-VT and IVb (head doctor) of the SS-VT
• 31 January 1940 IVb of the SS-Verfügungsdivision as successor of Prof. Dr. med. Karl Franz Gebhardt
• 1 April 1940 to 15 February 1941 IVb of the SS-Totenkopf-Division
• Head of the medical department/SS-FHA
• 1 April 1942 to 19 January 1943 Inspection doctor of the department "Reichsarzt SS und Polizei" (Reich Physician SS and Police) under Prof. Dr. med. Ernst Robert Grawitz
• IVb of the 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg (Divisionsarzt)
• 12/15 August 1943 to 1 March 1944 IVb of the IV. SS-Panzerkorps
  • 15 October 1943 to 1 March 1944 subordinated to the Amtsgruppe D (SS Main Economic and Administrative Office) of the SS-FHA
• IVb (Korpsarzt) of the short-lived VII. SS-Panzerkorps, then again of the IV. SS-Panzerkorps
  • The VII SS Panzer Corps was an armoured corps of the Waffen-SS under Matthias Kleinheisterkamp which never took part in hostilities. On 30 June 1944, the corps was merged into the IV SS Panzer Corps. Korps-Feldlazarett 506 (SS-Korps-Truppen) along with SS-Brigadeführer (promoted on 20 April 1945) Dr. med. Gerhard Karehnke (1895–1981) and SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. med. Ernst Schäfer.
• 14 November 1944 Meeting with Oberfeldarzt Dr. Crodel, the chief physician (Chefarzt) of the field hospital Feldlazarett (mot.) 2/582 in Schröttersburg (East Prussia)
• March/April 1945 SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. med. Ludwig Ehrsam (1910–1947) became IVb of the IV SS Panzer Corps
  • It is unclear, where Dr. Rothardt served now. May be he was wounded or taken from the front. It is alo not known, if he became a POW.

Promotions

• 1914 War Volunteer and Feld-Unterarzt der Reserve (Reserve Junior Field Surgeon)
  • Officer candidate with physics certificate, equivalent to deputy officer; doctors obligated with Landsturm duty (Landsturmpflichtige Ärzte)
• 19 June 1916 Feldhilfsarzt der Reserve (Reserve Senior Field Surgeon)
  • With full medical license, equivalent to sergeant lieutenant (officer rank without an officer's patent)
• 23 April 1917 Assistenzarzt der Reserve (Reserve Assistant Doctor)
  • Commission with rank as 2nd Lieutenant

SA

• 1 January 1931 SA-Mann
• 10 November 1931 SA-Gausturmarzt
• 15 December 1932 SA-Gruppenarzt
• May 1933 SA-Sanitäts-Gruppenführer
  • His rank of SA-Gruppenarzt was re-designated SA-Sanitäts-Gruppenführer in 1933

Luftwaffe

• December 1935 Military medical officer (E) of the Luftwaffe
  • as a supplemental officer (Ergänzungsoffizier)
• 30 April 1936 Stabsarzt der Reserve (Reserve Staff Surgeon)
  • with military rank as Reserve Captain

SS

• 1 August 1936 SS-Sturmbannführer (Major)
• 12 September 1937 SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel)
• 30 January 1940 SS-Standartenführer (Colonel)
• 1 September 1941 SS-Oberführer (Senior Colonel)
• 9 November 1943 SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS
  • another source states, he was also Generalarzt, it is not clear if Generalarzt of the Waffen-SS, Generalarzt of the Police or even Reserve Generalarzt of the Wehrmacht

Awards and decorations

• Iron Cross (1914), 2nd and 1st Class
• Wound Badge (Verwundetenabzeichen 1918) in Black
• Badge of the SA meeting in Braunschweig 1931 (Abzeichen des SA-Treffens Braunschweig 1931)
• Nuremberg Reich Party Rally Badge (Nürnberger Parteitagsabzeichen) 1933
• Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 with Swords
• Honour Chevron for the Old Guard (Ehrenwinkel für Alte Kämpfer)
• SS-Julleuchter in December 1936
• Honour Sword of the Reichsführers-SS (see picture in Berlin 1938)
• SS-Zivilabzeichen (Nr.: 150.483)
• SA Sports Badge (SA-Sportabzeichen) in Bronze (Nr. 1.207.532) in September 1937
• Anschluss Medal (Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. März 1938)
• Sudetenland Medal
• Repetition Clasp 1939 to the Iron Cross 1914, 2nd and 1st Class
  • EK II on 25 May 1940
• NSDAP Long Service Award in Bronze (10 years)
• War Merit Cross (1939), 2nd Class with Swords on 1 September 1942
• SS Long Service Award, 4th and 3rd Grade (8 years)