(¤ 1892, † 1945) Dermatologist, active in Jena and Rostock.
He spent years as an assistant and trained as a dermatologist at the State University in Jena. 1921 dissertation. 1926 habilitation with Bodo Spiethoff. On October 1, 1933, E.-H. Brill took over the chair and the full professorship in Rostock. The Rostock chair was filled in 1933, although Brill was neither on the appointment list nor was his appointment endorsed by the faculty. Bodo Spiethoff, an "old NSDAP fighter," had recommended his senior physician Brill to Hans Reiter, a close advisor to the Rostock rector and an extreme advocate of National Socialism, as "a man who strongly supported Hitler in the student body and was also popular with the national students.
1936 Elected rector of the University of Rostock (1936/37).
After 1933, only individual works on skin physiology, constitutional pathology, and the control of skin reactions by the autonomic nervous system were produced.
Brill played a prominent role at the time of the Nazi regime in Germany. Thus, he was a member of the NSDAP, the SA, the Totenkopfverbände of the SS, and leader of the National Socialist Dozentenbund. This is documented by his memberships in several associations of the regime: 1.2. 1933 entry into the SA with promotion to Sanitätssturmbannführer; 1. 3. 1933 admission to the NSDAP; 12.9.1937 admission to the SS with promotion to SS-Hauptsturmführer. Brill died in May 1945 for unexplained reasons.