Alois Memmesheimer

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Alois Matthias Memmesheimer (born July 14, 1894 in Saarbrücken , † January 14, 1973 in Essen ) was a German dermatologist and medical officer . After 1945 he was responsible for the reconstruction of the city skin clinic in Essen, which he headed from 1931. From 1960 to 1965 he was President of the German Dermatological Society .

Life

Memmesheimer attended school in Bad Kreuznach . After graduating from high school in 1913, he served in the Kaiser Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 and then studied until 1914 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Medical Academy in Berlin.

When the First World War broke out in 1914, he joined the Imperial Navy in Wilhelmshaven as a medical officer . At first he was a marine field doctor in the fortress hospital in Wilhelmshaven and then in the naval hospital in Hamburg. He was later used as a battalion doctor in Flanders. Most recently he was a marine field medical assistant.

After the war he resumed his medical studies , which he completed in Berlin and Bonn. In 1920 he passed the medical state examination and became a commercial eczema with his dissertation on the use of calcium cyanamide fertilizer. From the University Skin Clinic in Bonn to Dr. med. PhD.

This was followed by promotion to the naval assistant doctor in the reserve of the Reichsmarine . From 1922 to 1923 he assisted Friedrich Bering at the skin clinic of the municipal hospitals in Essen. After a stopover at the Physiological Institute of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , he returned to Essen in 1924. In 1925 he moved to Erich Hoffmann in Bonn. In 1925/26 he went as an assistant to the Department of Physiology at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City , where he was assistant to the Japanese bacteriologist Noguchi Hideyo .

In 1926 he completed his habilitation and was appointed private lecturer at the University of Bonn . He became senior physician with Paul Linser at the Tübingen University Skin Clinic, and in 1930 he was appointed associate professor there . During this time he also undertook research trips to Central America and the American west coast to research the chronic infectious disease leprosy . In 1931 he succeeded Bering as head of the Essen Dermatology Clinic. In the same year he became an honorary member of the Dermatological Society of London and a member of the Royal Society of Medicine .

In December 1933 he was arrested for making criticisms of the Nazi regime and imprisoned in 1934. Employees of the Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen stood up for him so that he could return to his old position.

In 1935 he was promoted to naval staff surgeon in the reserve. As naval chief officer of the reserve he practiced on the light cruiser Emden in 1937 and on the destroyer Z 11 Bernd von Arnim in 1939 . In 1939 he became department head of the Wesermünde naval hospital . In 1940 he rose to the position of chief physician at the Emden Navy Hospital. In 1940/41, as chief physician, he was in charge of building the naval hospital in Heiloo - Alkmaar , the Netherlands . This was followed by the promotion to the squadron doctor of the reserve and the appointment to the consulting dermatologist of the Navy of the Wehrmacht (1941).

After the Second World War he rebuilt the dermatology clinic in Essen. In 1949 he became treasurer and from 1960 to 1965 he was President of the German Dermatological Society . He was also the founding president and later honorary president of the Dermatological Society in Essen. From 1959 he was also President of the Erich Hoffmann Society . He became honorary chairman of the German-speaking Mycological Society . In 1959 he became an honorary member of the British Association of Dermatology and was also an honorary member of the societies in Austria, Hungary and the USA. From 1949 to 1972 he was a personally supporting member of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science.

He was a member of the Catholic student union AV Guestfalia Tübingen .

Fonts (selection)

  • Skin irritants and skin ophthalmic. A presentation of our views and knowledge about the skin as an organ of protection and immunity. From the University Dermatology Clinic Bonn (= collection of informal treatises from the fields of dermatology and syphilidology and diseases of the urigenital apparatus with special consideration of general medical practice . NF, volume 9). C. Marhold, Halle an der Saale 1927.
  • The technique and application of suboccipital or cistern puncture . Montana-Verlag, Stuttgart 1929.
  • A short guide to skin and sexually transmitted diseases, with special emphasis on their localizations on the head and in the mouth. For students, dentists and doctors . Montana-Verlag, Horw-Luzern u. a. 1930.

literature

Web links

  • Memmesheimer, Alois in the online encyclopedia of dermatology, venereology, allergology and environmental medicine

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Orth : "The official seat of the opposition" ?. Politics and state restructuring plans in the office of the Deputy Chancellor in the years 1933–1934 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne u. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50555-4 , p. 370.
  2. ^ The former presidents of the DDG , derma.de, accessed on October 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ Honorary membership , dmykg.de, accessed on October 18, 2016.
  4. ↑ Jana Tempelhoff, Dirk Ullmann: Directory of Members of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (1949–2002) (= publications from the archive of the Max Planck Society . Vol. 24). Archive of the Max Planck Society , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-927579-28-6 , p. 191.
personal data
SURNAME Memmesheimer, Alois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Memmesheimer, Alois Matthias (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1973
Place of death eat