Adolf Seiser

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Adolf Seiser (born April 26, 1891 in Würzburg , † July 3, 1971 in Munich ) was a German doctor , hygienist , bacteriologist and university professor.

Life

Seiser was born in Würzburg in 1891 as the son of a senior teacher. After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1910 , he studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1910 he became a member of the Danubia Munich fraternity . In 1913 he was drafted into the army and served in the First World War as a troop and hospital doctor . After being wounded in 1917, he continued his studies at the Philipps University in Marburg . He passed the medical state examination in 1918 and was deployed to the front again.

In 1918 he joined the Bavarian Freikorps Epp and later the Chiemgau Resident Army as a troop doctor. In 1919 he was at the medical faculty in Marburg with a thesis to knowledge of the pharmacological effect of Dulcins to Dr. med. PhD. From 1919 to 1921 he worked as a doctor in Breitbrunn am Chiemsee . From 1922 to 1926 he was assistant and senior assistant at the Biological Research Institute in Munich and from 1926 to 1929 at the Hygiene Institute of the University of Halle (Saale) . In 1927 he completed his habilitation at the Institute for Hygiene at the University Medicine Halle and became a private lecturer in Halle, and from 1929 in Munich.

From 1920 to 1923 he joined the NSDAP as an old fighter (old card index no. 2020); The re-entry took place in 1933 ( membership number 3.213.259). In the 1930s he became a member of several National Socialist organizations such as SA (1933), NSDDB , NSLB , NSV , Kyffhäuserbund , RLB and VDA . In addition, from 1934 he was a training speaker for Weltanschauung for the SA Brigade 86.

In 1933 Seiser became a non-official associate professor at the University of Munich. In 1935 he was appointed full professor at the University of Giessen as the successor to Philalethes Kuhn . From 1935 he was director of the Hygiene Institute , in 1937 he became dean of the medical faculty and from April 1938 to September 1939 he was rector of the University of Giessen. From 1939 to 1945 he taught as the successor to Paul Schmidt at the University of Halle-Wittenberg .

After the Second World War he was released and interned by the American armed forces. In the Nuremberg medical trials he appeared as a witness for the prosecution against Joachim Mrugowsky, among others .

In 1948 he was hired as an epidemic expert at the health department in Altötting. In 1950 he got a job at the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior . From 1952 to 1956 he was head of the State Bacteriological Research Institute in Erlangen . In 1958 he was retired from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • with Paul Schmidt, Stillfried Litzner: Bleivergiftung . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin a. a. 1930.

literature

  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 160.
  • Frank Hirschinger : "Approved for extermination". Halle and the Altscherbitz State Hospital 1933-1945 (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism , Volume 16). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-412-06901-9 , pp. 50-51. (see eugenics in Halle)
  • Jörg-Peter Jatho: The Giessen Goethe Bund. An inventory of the public literature business in the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era . Research group for traces , Rotenburg 2004, ISBN 3-933734-10-X , p. 246.
  • Sigrid Oehler-Klein (Ed.): The Medical Faculty of the University of Giessen during National Socialism and in the post-war period. People and institutions, upheavals and continuities (= The Medical Faculty of the University of Giessen , Volume 2). Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-09043-8 , p. 619 (see biographical index)
  • Legler: In memoriam Prof. Dr. Adolf Seiser . In: Public Health 33 (1971), p. 780.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1909/10
  2. ^ Old gentlemen's association of the Danubia fraternity in Munich (ed.): History of the Danubia fraternity . Volume 1, Munich 1978, p. 319.
personal data
SURNAME Seiser, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, hygienist, bacteriologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1971
Place of death Munich