Anton Waldmann

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Anton Waldmann (born February 21, 1878 in Zwiesel , † March 26, 1941 in Munich ) was a German specialist in hygiene and, as a general chief medical officer, army medical inspector of the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht .

School, university and doctorate

As the son of a state-employed veterinarian, he attended elementary school in Prien am Chiemsee for five years from the age of four and then went to Garmisch for a year . This was followed by a stay in a royal educational institute in Munich, where sons were taught by civil servants. There he completed high school for nine years. In the fall of 1897 he began studying medicine at the University of Munich . During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich . He passed the test to the doctor in the spring of 1902, and then in the same year on July 22, the promotion of Dr. med. at the University of Munich with the work on primary carcinoma of the lung parenchyma .

Military career and medical specialist

In 1903 his military career began with the 2nd Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment in Munich. This was followed by a command as a troop doctor in Metz , where he was appointed assistant doctor on September 21, 1903. After two years he began a specialist training under Max von Gruber as a hygienist at the hygienic institute of the University of Munich . The focus of his work was practical health care and disease control . He was able to get to know the working methods of serology and bacteriology .

Hygiene publications

In 1908 he took part in the International Hygiene Congress in Budapest and gave a lecture on the subject of food poisoning in the army . As part of the collaboration in the bacteriological-hygienic department of the royal Bavarian military medical army , he dealt with various topics. In 1909 he published a paper on paratyphoid fever . Other publications related to diseases associated with the stiff neck occurred, the carriers of germs of meningococcal , the percentage of infection on Ozaena - syndrome , the issues of treatment of tuberculosis and dealing and practice of equipment disinfection with formaldehyde .

Book publication, Balkan war and lecturer

His first book publication came out in 1912 on first aid in accidents, the second edition appeared in 1926. In 1913, he and Hugo Kämmerer wrote a thesis on blood tests and blood components, which was based on the findings of a visit to the Serum Institute in Marburg using the method of Emil Adolf von Behring . On March 27, 1913, he was promoted to medical officer. In 1913 he was a member of a German study commission of the Red Cross that visited the theater of the first Balkan war . He published the results of the knowledge gathered there in 1914 under the title Clinical Works and Observations from the Balkan War 1913 . Towards the end of 1913 he was appointed as a lecturer in hygiene at the military medical academy in Munich, where he trained medical doctors in military hygiene.

First World War and Army Medical Inspection

With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, he was assigned to the I. Bavarian Army Corps as a hygiene advisor . In doing so, he first got to know the conditions at the front in the west. Then he came to the front in the Italian south with a command at III. Bavarian Army Corps . Almost until the end of the war, he served in the medical service for four years. In the meantime he took over the task of organizing an army rehabilitation facility near Plattling . In February 1918 he came to the Bavarian War Ministry as a consultant for army hygiene at the medical department . In the autumn of 1919 he was promoted to senior staff doctor and transferred to the Army Medical Inspection at the Reichswehr Ministry in Berlin, where he was also used for Army hygiene. He occupied this position for the next eight years.

Reorganization of the medical system, immunology and vitamin C.

In the Reichswehr he participated in the reorganization of the medical system. He also continued to publish current medical topics, for example the work tuberculosis as a widespread disease in the present in 1921. In the same year he wrote a paper on the protective effect of the steel helmet . and in the following year a publication on the use of vaccination against typhus . In 1923 he reported on the medical experience of sport in the army of the Reichswehr. In 1924, on February 1, he was promoted to chief physician. In the same year he wrote an article on the subject of hygiene in the soldiers' quarters and the importance of immunological defense. In his work he also addressed questions of general interest, for example in 1925 with the topic What do we know about fatigue? . In 1938 he was interested in the problem of the mental and physical performance of tank crews if they were additionally supplied with vitamin C. In this context, he made contact with Professor Oskar Bruns , who worked for the Swiss company Hoffmann-La Roche .

Division doctor and army medical inspector

On May 1, 1927, he was promoted to general physician. This was followed on November 1, 1927, the appointment as division doctor in the 7th Bavarian Division, which was connected with the task of doctor in the military district in Munich. In 1931 he was promoted to General Staff Doctor on May 1, which also meant he was group doctor at Army Group Command 2 in Kassel . On November 1, 1932, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg appointed him to Army Sanitary Inspector while being promoted to Chief Medical Officer at the same time. When the medical officer career was reorganized on April 1, 1934, his rank was renamed General Staff Doctor.

Wehrmacht medical services, academy and new hospitals

As an inspector, he built up the army's medical services , starting with a tribe of 300 medical officers. The Kaiser Wilhelms Academy for Military Education became the Military Medical Academy on October 1, 1934 in the same property . On January 18, 1937, he was appointed Chief Medical Officer. In the same year the first new hospitals were set up.

Sickness and death

In December 1940, Waldmann had to quit his job because "an insidious ailment" no longer allowed him to continue in his office. In addition, a car accident in the fall of 1940 made the disease worse.

When he died on March 26, 1941, Adolf Hitler ordered a state funeral in Munich for March 30, 1941. For the Nazi leadership, Reich Health Leader Leonardo Conti and his deputy Kurt Blome laid a wreath for Hitler's deputy at the grave.

Waldmann barracks

After the Second World War , the corps news barracks in Munich was renamed Waldmann barracks after him in 1955 , which was named after him until it was dissolved in 1995.

Promotions

September 21, 1903: Assistant doctor
October 27, 1906: Senior physician
March 27, 1913: Medical officer
1919: Chief Medical Officer
February 1, 1924: Senior Physician General (corresponds to today's senior physician)
May 1, 1927: General doctor (old, corresponds to today's senior doctor)
May 1, 1931: General Staff Doctor (old, corresponds to today's General Doctor)
November 1, 1932: General Chief Staff Doctor (old, corresponds to today's General Staff Doctor)
January 18, 1937: General Oberstabsarzt (new)

Fonts

  • On primary carcinoma of the lung parenchyma , 1902
  • Determination of the amount of blood according to v. Bering and other quantitative investigations of the blood components, with Hugo Kämmerer . In: Zentralblatt for the entire internal medicine and its border areas , 1913, p. 660
  • First aid in the event of an accident . Leipzig 1926
  • Military hygiene textbook with Wilhelm Hoffmann, Berlin 1936
  • Doctor and soldier , 1938

membership

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg B. Gruber: Anton Waldmann . In: Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift , Vol. 88, No. 24 (1941), pp. 593-594
  2. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book. Membership directory of all old men. As of October 1, 1937. Hanover 1937, p. 188.
  3. ^ Rüfner: On the 60th birthday of the Army Medical Inspector General Oberstabsarzt Prof. Dr. Waldmann . In: Festschrift for the 60th birthday of the Army Sanitary Inspector in the Reich Ministry of War, Chief Medical Officer Professor Dr. Anton Waldmann . Berlin 1938, pp. 7-10
  4. ↑ in: Feldarzt, Austrian military medical journal , 1908
  5. ^ Medical Clinic , 1909, p. 178
  6. ^ Anton Waldmann: Clinical work and observations from the Balkan War 1913 . In: Central Committee of the German Red Cross Associations (ed.), Contribution to War Medicine, Berlin 1914, pp. 833f
  7. ^ Anton Waldmann: Tuberculosis as a widespread disease in the present . In: Er-Ka, the Red Cross , Volume 1, Issue 9/10, 1921
  8. ↑ in: Rev. med. No. 8 , Hamburg 1921
  9. ↑ in: Arch. Hyg. 1923 , Volume 93, p. 239
  10. ↑ in: Mil. Surgeon (Am.) 1924 , Vol. 54, No. 2, p. 149.
  11. ↑ in: Deutsche Soldatenzeitung , 1925
  12. ↑ Lukas Straumann, Daniel Wildmann: Swiss chemical companies in the "Third Reich" , Zurich 2001, p. 249
  13. ↑ Colonel General Prof. Dr. Anton Waldmann . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt , No. 14, Volume 71, Berlin April 5, 1941, p. 155
  14. ↑ ackermannbogen.de ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ackermannbogen.de
  15. ^ Obituary for Chief Staff Doctor Prof. Dr. Waldmann . In: Der Deutsche Militärarzt , 6th year, issue 5, 1941, pp. 257-258
  16. ↑ Jens Martin Rohrbach: Ophthalmology in National Socialism with 35 tables , Stuttgart 2006, p. 183
  17. ↑ Hans-Walter Schmuhl: Crossing borders: the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics 1927-1945 , Göttingen 2005, pp. 188-189
personal data
SURNAME Waldmann, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist in hygiene and army sanitary inspector for the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwiesel
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1941
Place of death Munich