Alexander Sturm
Alexander Sturm (born June 26, 1901 in Munich , † June 1, 1973 in Wuppertal ) was a German doctor .
Career
Sturm was born the son of a senior civil servant. He studied medicine and was at the 1926 Munich University with a thesis on Clinical usefulness of the methods of Jodnachweises in body fluids and tissues and Blutjodspiegel normal people summa cum laude doctorate . In 1931 he completed his habilitation in internal medicine at the University of Jena , where he then worked as a private lecturer .
After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he joined the SA in 1933 and in August 1933 took part in the racial training courses at the State School for Leadership and Politics of the Thuringian Racial Office in Egendorf . From 1934 he acted as a judge at the Genetic Health Court in Apolda . Under his teacher Wolfgang Heinrich Veil , he worked as a senior physician from 1934 and additionally from 1939 as an adjunct professor at the Medical University Clinic in Jena and was a member of the editorial board of the Jena Journal for Medicine and Science .
During the Second World War he served as a medical officer in the Wehrmacht .
After the end of the war, from 1946 to 1968 he was director of the medical and mental hospital of the Wuppertal municipal hospitals. From 1950 he also taught at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf .
In 1960 he was appointed President of the Rhenish-Westphalian Society for Internal Medicine, and in 1963 President of the German Society for Internal Medicine. He was also an honorary member of numerous foreign medical societies. His services were awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .
Sturm researched mainly in the field of the vegetative nervous system and iodine metabolism, about which he published numerous articles and books.
Since 1920 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Rheno-Franconia Munich.
Fonts
- Metabolism in the textbook of pathological physiology. 1934, 8th edition 1951 (also Spanish and French)
- The pathology of the brain stem and its vegetative clinical pictures as knowledge and basis of the accident assessment of internal diseases (with WH Veil), Gustav Fischer, Jena 1946
- The clinical pathology of the lungs in relation to the autonomic nervous system. 1948, 2nd edition 1953 (also in Spanish)
- Basic concepts of internal medicine. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1959
literature
- W. Birkmayer: Prof. Dr. Alexander Sturm (June 26, 1901 - June 1, 1973). In: The Medical World , 1973.
- German Biographical Encyclopedia
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Alexander Sturm in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alexander Sturm in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sturm, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1973 |
| Place of death | Wuppertal |