Alexander Herrmann (medical doctor)

Grave of Alexander Herrmann in the forest cemetery in Munich-Solln

Alexander Herrmann (born November 5, 1900 in Darethen , Allenstein district ; † August 6, 1981 in Munich ) was a German ENT doctor and university professor in Gießen, Erfurt, Greifswald, Mainz and Munich.

Life

Herrmann studied medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In the summer semester of 1919 he became a member of the Königsberg fraternity Gothia . He moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU) and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1923 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD.

He received his basic surgical training from Otto Kleinschmidt in Berlin. He completed his habilitation in 1929 at the Hessian Ludwig University with Alfred Brüggemann . In Gießen, where he had also worked at the ear clinic since 1927, he also taught as an adjunct professor from 1934 . Hermann was the first chief physician to head the department for ENT medicine at the Erfurt municipal hospitals, which was newly established in 1933/1934 .

In 1939 he followed the call of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald . In 1946 he was appointed to the chair for ENT medicine at the reopened Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . He turned the city ENT department into a university clinic. From 1952 he was ENT professor at the LMU. At the same time, he took over the management of the ENT clinic at the Technical University of Munich , which has been temporarily headed by his senior physician Alfred Kressner since Wilhelm Brünings' retirement in 1950. He headed this until 1970. He retired in 1969. His successor was Hans-Heinz Naumann .

Herrmann was an honorary member of the Greek, Spanish and Hungarian oto-laryngological societies.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Herrmann (obituary notice), Ostpreußenblatt, vol. 32, volume 47, November 21, 1981, p. 19.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Prof. Dr. Alexander Herrmann , Ostpreußen-Warte , No. 11, November 1955. p. 8.
3. ^ Title entry of the dissertation , catalog of the Berlin State Library , accessed on May 17, 2015.
4. ↑ Dissertation: About child murder in Berlin from 1914 to 1920 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} Mainz and Munich ; in: Academic teaching centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Germany in the 20th century . German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, 2013. pp. 215, 242–243
6. ↑ Erfurt ; in: History of the German ear, nose and throat clinics in the 20th century . Springer-Verlag, 2002. p. 131