Alfred Jäger (medic)

Alfred Jäger (born May 18, 1904 in Sandau , Bohemia , † November 4, 1988 in Aachen ) was a German physician .

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Alfred Jäger was the son of the physician and politician Edmund Jäger and his wife Josefine Antonia. He attended school in Sandau and graduated from high school in Eger in 1922 . He then studied medicine in Munich until 1927 and passed the medical examination in 1928. This was followed by a volunteer assistant at the Munich-Schwabing Municipal Hospital and, from 1928 to 1933, at the Bonn University Surgical Clinic with Erich von Redwitz . Since he did not get a paid job there, he became a scientific assistant to Ulrich Ebbecke at the Physiological Institute , and he also trained with the radiologist Robert Janker . In 1930 he was with the work of pathological intracranial calcification Not for Dr. med. PhD .

From 1933 he worked again at the Institute of Physiology in Bonn Ulrich Ebbecke, where he with the work in 1936. The reflective stripes on the retinal vessels habilitated . In 1935 he received German citizenship and a license to practice medicine . On October 19, 1935, he married Irmgard born in Stolberg . Rodewald (born July 3, 1904).

In 1937 he became an assistant doctor at the eye clinic of the University of Kiel under director Alois Meesmann . In the same year he joined the NSDAP as well as the National Socialist German Medical Association and the National Socialist German Lecturer Association . In 1939 he passed the specialist examination and became senior physician at the eye clinic in Kiel. Shortly afterwards he became a medical officer in the reserve of the Air Force of the Wehrmacht . In October 1940 he also received a lectureship in ophthalmology at the University of Kiel. In addition, he dealt with the history of medicine and received a teaching position for it .

Towards the end of the war, Alfred Jäger became a medical officer at the Mohrkirch-Osterholz air investigation center . To ensure the reopening of the University of Kiel, the rector said Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt in the military government of the dismissal of hunters that took place in early 1946th In 1947 he became an adjunct professor in Kiel. Shortly afterwards, after a substitute professorship, he became acting director of the eye clinic at the University of Münster , where he also worked as an attending physician and was a lecturer until 1950.

In the course of denazification in 1947, Alfred Jäger was initially classified by the denazification committee in Münster in category 4 ( followers ) without a property freeze. On the other hand, he appealed through his lawyer Bernhard Reismann with the aim of classification in category 5 (exonerated), which was rejected in February 1948. Another application for classification in category 5 was rejected by the appeal committee in March 1948 because of insufficient arguments for political harmlessness. In November 1948, Jäger personally contacted the special commissioner for denazification to review the previous procedure. In March 1949 he was classified in category 5 by the denazification committee in Kiel. As a result, the denazification main committee revoked the classification in category 4 in January 1950 and the proceedings were finally discontinued. Also for assumptions that Alfred Jäger had worked more closely with Karl Brandt and that he was involved in his retinal negative pressure experiments, no clues were found.

In 1955, Jäger became chief physician at the eye clinic of the Aachen city hospitals . When the Medical Faculty of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen was formed in 1966 , Jäger was taken over by the municipal hospitals as one of the seven founding ordinaries and appointed full professor of ophthalmology. He also became head of the Department of Eye Diseases. In 1973 he retired .

Alfred Jäger published about 50 papers in scientific journals between 1931 and 1962. In his earlier work, he mainly dealt with general physiological fundamentals such as the blood circulation , from the second half of the 1930s he wrote primarily on ophthalmological topics. These included problems of the retina , visual acuity determination , lens dislocation , surgical treatment of cataracts , myopia and glaucoma . He also dealt with further problems such as eye movements and the architectural problem of the curvature of the horizontals or requirements for windshields for adequate road safety .

literature

• Carola Döbber: Political chief physicians? New studies on the Aachen medical profession in the 20th century (= studies of the Aachen competence center for the history of science. Volume 14). Dissertation. Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen 2012. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-86219-338-7 , pp. 81–86 ( online ).

Web links

• Alfred Jäger in the Kiel list of scholars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Irmgard Jäger in the Kiel list of scholars
2. ↑ Section 4.4.2. The denazification process. In: Carola Döbber: Political chief physicians? New studies on the Aachen medical profession in the 20th century (= studies of the Aachen competence center for the history of science. Volume 14). Dissertation. Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen 2012. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-86219-338-7 , pp. 85-87 ( online ).
3. ↑ Political chief physicians? New studies on the Aachen medical profession in the 20th century (= studies of the Aachen competence center for the history of science. Volume 14). Dissertation. Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen 2012. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-86219-338-7 , pp. 116–119, no. 66–115 ( online ).