Hugo Sparrow

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Hugo Spatz (born September 2, 1888 in Munich , † January 27, 1969 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German neuropathologist .

Life

Walther Spielmeyer and his team, 1927. Standing (from left to right): Eversbusch, Julius Hallervorden, Quast, Oskar Gagel , Kutter, Yushi Uchimura, Yushi Funakawa, Metz, Deisler. Sitting: Adele Grombach, Gamper, Eduard Gamper, Spielmeyer, Hugo Spatz , unknown, unknown.

Hugo Spatz was born in Munich in 1888 and studied medicine at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg . In Heidelberg he had the opportunity to work in Franz Nissl 's laboratory. In 1909 he became an employee in the anatomical department of the German Research Institute for Psychiatry in Munich under Emil Kraepelin . He worked with Nissl and Walther Spielmeyer . In 1922, together with Julius Hallervorden, he first described a disease that was named Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome after its discoverer . Insofar as both researchers were accused of later dissecting the corpses of victims of Nazi euthanasia under the rule of the National Socialists, present-day medical professionals suggest replacing the term. In 1923 Spatz completed his habilitation in psychiatry . In 1926 he became senior physician under Kraepelin's successor, Oswald Bumke, and the following year he became associate professor.

From 1937, he succeeded Oskar Vogt as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin-Buch . Between 1940 and 1945, around 700 brains of victims of the mass euthanasia murder of the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped were examined at this institute. Spatz, who had become a member of the NSDAP in 1938 , was one of the participants with Julius Hallervorden in an action T4 conference in which the use of the preparations of the euthanasia victims was discussed. In 1941 Spatz took part in a DFG research project on aviation medicine called Tests on the influence of anoxemia (lack of oxygen in the blood) on the cellular tissue metabolism of the cerebral cortex and on the effects of negative pressure based on human experiments. In 1943 Spatz was appointed chief medical officer and, as a brain pathologist, was a member of the staff of the chief of medical services in the air force. In 1943, Spatz also received honorary membership in the Society of Bulgarian Neurologists and Psychiatrists in Sofia.

After the end of the Second World War , Spatz was interned in 1945, but was already working for the Aero Medical Center in Heidelberg in 1946 . From 1948 to 1957 he headed the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Giessen. In 1958 he became director of the neuroanatomical department of the Max Planck Institute. In 1959 Spatz officially retired , but from 1961 worked at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main . In 1960 he became a member of the Leopoldina . The Hugo Spatz Prize of the German Society for Neurology, named after him, which has been awarded since 1975 for excellent research results in the field of cerebral blood flow and cerebral metabolism, was awarded on September 30, 1999 in Adolf-Wallenberg after his involvement in the euthanasia murders became known - Renamed price.

Awards

See also

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to the normal histology of the newborn rabbit spinal cord. Jena 1917.
  • About iron detection in the brain, especially in the centers of the extrapyramidal motor system. Munich 1921.
  • with K. Onari: Anatomical contributions to the teaching of Pickschen circumscribed cerebral cortex atrophy (“Picksche disease” ). In: Journal for the whole of neurology and psychiatry. 101/1926. Pp. 470-511.
  • Physiology and pathology of the basal ganglia. In: Manual of normal and pathological physiology. Volume 10. Berlin 1927.
  • Encephalitis. In: Handbook of Mental Illnesses. Volume 11 (1). Munich 1930.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fangerau, Schulz, Noack, Müller: Medical Terminology. A compact course, Berlin 2008, p. 12
  2. ^ Hans-Walter Schmuhl: Medicine in the Nazi era: brain research and the murder of the sick . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . Volume 98, Issue 19, May 11, 2001, Page A-1240 / B-1058 / C-988.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Ernst Klee : The personal dictionary for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 589.
  4. ↑ Newsletter of the German Science and Technology, organ of the Reich Research Council (Hrsg.): Research and progress . Staff news. German science and abroad. tape 19, 23/24 , 1943, pp. 252 .
  5. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Hugo Spatz
  6. ^ German Society for Neurology: Awards of the DGN: Adolf Wallenberg Prize .
personal data
SURNAME Sparrow, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neuropathologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1969
Place of death Frankfurt am Main