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Friedrich Alfred Schwenkenbecher (born September 12, 1875 in Erfurt , † March 8, 1963 in Marburg ) was a German internist and university professor.

Swivel beaker studied medicine . During his studies he became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity in the winter semester of 1894/95 . He received his doctorate from the University of Marburg in 1900 . There he became associate professor and head of the polyclinic in 1907 . He was a diet specialist . In 1914 he was appointed full professor for internal medicine at the newly founded University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1922/23 he was rector of the University of Marburg. Internist Paul Schölmerich was one of his students .

In the Third Reich, Schwenkenbecher was chairman of the German internists. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . On April 20, 1936, he was responsible for the Reichsärztekongress, which was supposed to combine “German” naturopathy with conventional medicine. He was skeptical of the Reichsärzteführer Gerhard Wagner because of the " New German Medicine " project .

In 1956 he was made an honorary member of the German Society for Internal Medicine .

Fonts

  • The nutritional calculation of ready-to-eat meals , Berlin 1900 (= Marburg dissertation)
  • Nutrient content and nutritional value of meals: For the calculation of diet regulations , 1911 (11 editions)

literature

  • Robert N. Proctor : Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 1988.
  • Uwe Heyll: Water, fasting, air and light: the history of naturopathy in Germany. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-59337-955-4 .
  • Ralf Forsbach , Hans-Georg Hofer: Internists in dictatorship and young democracy. The German Society for Internal Medicine 1933–1970. Berlin 2018, p. 75 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. S. 460.
personal data
SURNAME Swivel cup, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Swivel beaker, Friedrich Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1963
Place of death Marburg