August Mayer (physician)
August Mayer (born August 28, 1876 in Felldorf , Horb district ; † October 11, 1968 in Stuttgart ) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician .
Life
Mayer studied medicine from 1895 to 1900 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Hessian Ludwig University of Gießen . 1901–1904 he was an assistant doctor at the University Women's Clinic in Freiburg under Alfred Hegar . 1905–1907 he was an assistant at the University Women's Clinic in Heidelberg under Alfons von Rosthorn (1857–1909). In 1908 he completed his habilitation on "The Pelvic Dilation Operation". From 1907 he was a senior physician at the University Women's Clinic in Tübingen, whose director he became in 1917. At the same time he was full professor of obstetrics and gynecology . In 1937 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1949 Mayer retired, and in 1950 he was relieved of his position as director. Mayer saw himself as one of the fathers of psychosomatic gynecology.
During the time of National Socialism , he was involved in over 700 forced sterilizations of women who were considered "inferior" in this context as part of the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring .
In the 1950s he summed up great "knife successes" and "knife joy" in gynecology. Thousands of women would visit the gynecologist every day to report physical pain to him, although the bodily organs do not appear to be in a pathological condition or malfunction. Suffering at work, joyless work, economic hardship, housing misery, tensions in the marriage can be the real cause of the suffering, and it is pointless to approach the patient with medicines, ointments, syringes and a surgical knife.
literature
- Thorsten Doneith: August Mayer - Director of the University Women's Clinic Tübingen 1917-1949. Medical dissertation, Tübingen 2007. ( Abstract )
- Eberhard J. Wormer : Mayer, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 535 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about August Mayer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayer, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gynecologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Felldorf , district of Horb |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1968 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |