Alfred Stühmer

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Alfred Stühmer (born February 28, 1885 in Magdeburg , † June 2, 1957 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German dermatologist and university professor .

Life

After finishing his school career, Alfred Stühmer studied medicine at the universities of Jena, Munich and Breslau . He was promoted to Dr. med. doctorate and approved in the same year . He then worked as an assistant doctor in Marburg, Frankfurt am Main and Breslau ( Albert Neisser ), where he completed his specialist training. He participated in the First World War as a military doctor. At the University of Freiburg he worked as a senior physician under Georg Alexander Rost from 1919 and there followed in 1920 his habilitation in dermatology. He then worked there as a private lecturer and from 1924 as an associate professor. In 1925 he was appointed to the newly created chair for dermatology at the University of Münster , where he became the first director of the university skin clinic. In April 1934 he changed to the chair of dermatology in Freiburg, where he worked until his death and was also director of the local university skin clinic. At the medical faculty he was dean from 1937 to 1940 and then vice dean until 1945.

At the time of National Socialism , he joined the NSDAP in 1937 and was also a member of the NS organizations National Socialist People's Welfare , the NS-Altherrenbund and the NS-Ärztebund . He was also a member of the Nazi Lecturer Association and Reich Association of German Family . As dean, he campaigned for the revocation of honorary doctorates from anti-Nazi opponents, such as the already murdered SPD politician Ludwig Marum . On the other hand, he advocated the treatment of Jewish patients and recognized the medical merits of two Jewish doctors.

After the end of the war, Stühmer was denazified . With the exception of a university speech given in the National Socialist style in 1937, he had not been politically active and justified his membership in Nazi organizations and the party with regard to business and medical issues. With a cut in his salary and a two-year ban on holding university posts or giving speeches, he was able to keep his chair. According to Albrecht Scholz, Stühmer is "one of those political tightrope walkers who, with their silence, made many measures possible by the Nazi regime, supported the principles of the NSDAP in official speeches and often went their own ways independent of the party in practical life."

His main research interests were in particular skin tuberculosis and syphilis . He was the founder of the Haus Hornheide lupus healing center near Münster . He was considered a promoter of the art of moulage . Stühmer was the author of specialist publications.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 612
  2. ↑ a b c d http://www.muenster.de/stadt/strassennamen/stuehmerweg.html
  3. ^ A b Albrecht Scholz: History of Dermatology in Germany. , Berlin / Heidelberg 1999, p. 111
  4. ↑ A. Stühmer: Further contributions to the knowledge of the trypanosomal disease of the rabbit as a model reaction for syphilis. Fever course - serum reaction - seronegative and seropositive secondary period - pathogens in testicular tissue - immune deficiency of the central nervous system. In: Arch. Dermatol. Syph. Volume 152, 1926, pp. 738-750.
  5. ↑ Hartmut Ständer, Thomas A Luger, Sonja Ständer: The University Dermatology Clinic Münster: History and Moulagensammlung. Springer-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-540-28018-9 , p. 27
  6. ^ Alfred Stühmer's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 19, 2015.
  7. ↑ http://www.dstig.de/wer-wir-sind/geschichte-der-dstdg.html
personal data
SURNAME Stühmer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1957
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau