Alfred Brüggemann (physician)

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Alfred Eduard Heinrich Brüggemann (* July 2, 1882 in Rotthausen , † July 3, 1971 in Gießen ) was a German ENT doctor and university professor .

Life

A native Rotthauser Alfred Brüggemann, son of the coal mine director Carl Brueggemann and his wife Emma, born Randebrock, turned to the High School to study medicine at the universities of Freiburg , Strasbourg , Wurzburg and Munich to, there took place in 1908 his doctorate to Dr. med. After training as a specialist in ear, nose and throat medicine, Alfred Brüggemann received a position as a scientific assistant at the Clinic for ENT Medicine at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen in 1912 . There he completed his habilitation in 1913 as a private lecturer in ear, nose and throat medicine. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as senior physician in the reserve . In 1918 he was promoted to associate professor and in 1922 to full professor and director of the University Ear Clinic. He was dean of the medical faculty in 1926 and 1942/43 . Brüggemann held the office of rector in the academic year 1929/30 and from 1943 to 1945 . In addition, Alfred Brüggemann headed the new Seltersberg sanatorium for tuberculosis of the upper respiratory tract in Gießen from 1930 to 1945 .

Brüggemann had been a member of the NSDAP and the Nazi lecturers' association since 1937 . After the end of the war he was released from the university office as politically charged and interned. After a trial chamber process in the context of denazification , he was classified first as the main culprit and later as a follower. He then worked as a resident specialist in Giessen. In 1954 he retired .

Alfred Brüggemann, who made fundamental contributions in his fields of ear, nose and throat medicine, tuberculosis and accident medicine, was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1940 ; In 1957 he was made an honorary member of the German Society of Ear, Nose and Throat Doctors.

Alfred Brüggemann married Elisabeth nee Haagmann in 1917. He died in Gießen in the summer of 1971, one day after he was 89.

Publications

  • The more difficult décanulation and its treatment with special consideration of the dilatation process, habilitation thesis , Bergmann, Wiesbaden, 1913
  • Diseases of the outer and middle ear, G. Thieme, Leipzig, 1922
  • The basics of medical practice, Töpelmann, Giessen, 1930
  • Oral and pharynx, larynx and trachea. In: Fritz König : Handbuch der Complete Unfallheilkunde Vol. IV, F. Enke, Stuttgart, 1934, pp. 266–301
  • Ear tuberculosis. In: Herbert Assmann , et al .: Results of the entire tuberculosis research, G. Thieme, Leipzig, 1939
  • Accident and occupational damage to the ear, nose and larynx. In: Albert Wilhelm Fischer , Gustav Molineus: The medical report in insurance, JA Barth, Leipzig, 1939

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy , Heidelberg 2004, p. 30.
  2. ^ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography In: Historische-kommission-muenchen-edUNGEN.de
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 78
  4. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 2: Brann - Einslin. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Saur, Munich 2005, p. 116f.
personal data
SURNAME Brüggemann, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brüggemann, Alfred Eduard Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ENT doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotthausen
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1971
Place of death to water