Dr. Otto Nuhr

Otto Nuhr was accepted into the secondary school fraternity Rhaetia Wien in 1929. After graduating in 1933, he studied medicine in Vienna. He had to pay for his studies "through his own work". Otto Nuhr reports on the last BC "at a time of upheaval", including:

"At the time, we wanted to distribute the fraternity property to the fraternity members present so that each individual could save it from confiscation by hiding it safely. Suddenly, the younger son of our landlord, Stössel, burst in in the middle of the meeting, dressed in full SS uniform, and declared us under arrest if we didn't drop everything and leave the room immediately. I still managed to take my lid, my colors and the membership directory, which had been created a few months earlier, with the accompanying photo album and disappear."

In order not to endanger anyone, he burned the membership directory. The next day, his home was searched. "This was followed by numerous interrogations at all kinds of places in Vienna, as I didn't want to give the names of my fellow members." "Because of illegal activities with a Catholic student fraternity" and because he did not reveal the names of the members, he was "taken by bus to the Westbahnhof station on March 27, 1938, loaded onto a train without a word being said to us, which left soon afterwards. In Rudolstadt/Thuringia, we were unloaded and taken to a camp surrounded by high barbed wire," he wrote in his curriculum vitae. He was forced to work on the Saale dam there until his release on October 29, 1938. He was then able to continue his studies and was awarded a doctorate in medicine in February 1939 and was then able to continue his training as a "sec. doctor" in the Dombach infirmary.

From 14 March 1940 until he was wounded on 25 March 1940, Otto Nuhr was conscripted to work on the West Wall "on the Spicherer Heights under enemy fire". On April 15, 1940, he had to join the German Wehrmacht, was seriously wounded several times and then deployed to Stalingrad "on the orders of the Wehrkreis doctor as a punishment", "from where I came out with a graze shot to the head."

Further stations until the end of the war include a punitive transfer to East Prussia due to harassment by Nazi doctors, where he is discharged by the Wehrmacht as "unfit for service", but then has to serve in the "Volkssturm", and on March 4, 1945, he is transferred to the Western Front, where he is deployed in the "retreat battles". He was buried in Halberstadt/Saxony-Anhalt, wounded again and then taken prisoner by the Americans, from which he was released in June 1945. During his convalescence leave, he had been working as a doctor in Senfrenberg near Krems since 1940.

After the war, Otto Nuhr and his wife Rosemarie († 2012) founded the "Gesundheits-Zentrum", today's "Nuhr Medical Center", in Senftenberg in 1954, fulfilling a long-standing dream. With the new treatment method he developed, high-frequency electrotherapy, he laid the foundation for specializing in accident, neurological and geriatric rehabilitation and pain therapy.