Adolf Flockemann

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Adolf Flockemann as a student in Göttingen in 1889

Adolf Heinrich Friedrich Flockemann (born June 20, 1870 in Hanover , † 1955 near Cape Town in South Africa ) was a German doctor and consul in South Africa.

Live and act

Adolf Flockemann was born in Hanover in 1870 as the son of a court shoemaker . After attending a high school there, he went to Göttingen and Munich to study medicine in 1889 . In Göttingen he became a member of the association and later fraternity of Holzminda in 1889 . In 1892 he went to Jena to do his military service, where he became a member of the Salia Association . In 1894 he finished his academic training with a doctorate and a medical state examination and was qualified as a doctor. In 1896 he left Munich for Hamburg to work as a general practitioner . From 1898 he was employed at the Eppendorfer Hospital .

In 1900 he went to South Africa as a member of the second German (Hamburg) ambulance of the associations of the Red Cross to look after the wounded in German hospitals - in Kapland , Springfontein , Kroonstad and Pretoria - on the Boer side during the Second Boer War . After the war he stayed in South Africa, where he worked as a doctor from 1903. Flockemann turned down a position offered to him in 1901 as personal physician with the Emperor of Korea . From 1909 to 1914 he was appointed imperial consul in Bloemfontein for the district of Orange Free State. There he also opened a private clinic and operated the Oranje Apotheek as a pharmacist .

After the outbreak of the First World War , he returned to Germany in 1915, where he worked with the rank of senior physician and later a staff physician at the reserve hospital in Hamburg-Eppendorf . From 1916 he was resident in Hamburg as a general practitioner.

In the mid-1920s, he moved again to South Africa and practiced as a doctor in Bloemfontein, where in mid-1933, as German consul, he again took over the management of the newly reopened consulate for the district of Orange Free State and Basutoland . In 1939 he had to give up this post due to the Second World War , but he stayed in South Africa, where he died in 1955 on the Weltevreden farm near Cape Town .

honors and awards

  • According to him, which was Flockeman Street in Bloemfontein (South Africa) named.

Publications

  • On a case of multiple skin fibromas ... Dissertation, Munich 1894.
  • Pseudospastic paresis with tremor in a case of severe hysteria in a man. Hamburg 1899.
  • War experiences of the second German (Hamburg) ambulance of the Rothen Kreuz associations from the South African war. Leipzig 1901. (as co-author)

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 44-45.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Ebel : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1837-1900. Hildesheim 1974. (No. 64847, matriculated on October 24, 1889)
  2. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 124.
  3. ↑ Leiffholdt (Ed.): Annual report of the connection between Holzminda and Göttingen. S.-S. 1891 and W.-S. 1891/92. Göttingen 1892, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Leiffholdt (ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the connection Holzminda Göttingen , III. Vol., Barmen 1901, p. 87.
  5. ↑ Leiffholdt (ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the connection Holzminda Göttingen , III. Vol., Barmen 1901, p. 86.
personal data
SURNAME Flockemann, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinrich Adolf Friedrich Flockemann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and consul in South Africa
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1955
Place of death South Africa