Arnold Lauche

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Arnold Philipp Wilhelm Lauche (born September 14, 1890 in Kyritz ; † September 29, 1959 in Bad Wiessee ) was a German pathologist and university professor .

Life

Lauche finished his school career at the Realgymnasium in Bonn . From 1909 he then studied medicine at the universities of Bonn and Munich, which he completed in May 1914 with a state examination. In the same year he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He participated in the First World War as a medical officer. In 1919 he moved from Munich to Bonn as an assistant. He completed his habilitation in pathology in Bonn in 1922, was a private lecturer and was appointed associate professor there in 1926. He then worked as a senior physician under Wilhelm Ceelen (1883–1964) at the Pathological Institute of the University of Bonn . From 1933 he headed the Pathological Institute at the Municipal Hospital in Nuremberg.

At the time of National Socialism it belonged to the NSV (1934), the Reichsbund der Deutschen Officialten (1934), the DRK (1934), the NS-Ärztebund (1935), the NSKOV (1936), the NS-Altherrenbund (1937) and the NS-Reichskriegerbund (1938). He wasn't a party member.

In March 1939 he signed an employment contract with the Wehrmacht . During the Second World War , from 1941 on, he headed the military pathology institute at the Military Medical Academy and became an advisory pathologist at the Army Medical Inspector . In 1943, Lauche was appointed full professor and successor to Bernhard Fischer-Wasels (1877-1941) to the chair of pathology at the University of Frankfurt am Main , where he was also director of the Senckenberg Institute for Pathology.

After the end of the war he was denazified as exonerated in 1947 and remained in the university office until his retirement . From 1948 he was also acting head of the Neurological Institute of the University of Frankfurt (Edinger Institute).

Lauche had been married to Erna, nee Hechtenberg, since 1919. The couple had two children.

literature

  • Jürgen Peiffer : Brain research in Germany 1849 to 1974: Letters on the development of psychiatry and neurosciences as well as the influence of the political environment on scientists (= writings of the mathematical and natural science class of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. No. 13). Springer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-540-40690-5 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • W. Sandritter: In Memoriam Adolf Lauche . In: Negotiations of the German Society for Pathology , Volume 55, Fischer, 1971, pp. 726–729.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Peiffer: Hirnforschung in Deutschland 1849 to 1974: Letters on the development of psychiatry and neurosciences as well as the influence of the political environment on scientists (= writings of the mathematical and natural science class of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. No. 13), Berlin 2004, p. 1092
  2. ↑ a b c Gerald Kreft: "... now free of Jews ..." The Neurological Institute 1933 to 1945 . In: Jörn Kobes, Jan-Otmar Hesse: Frankfurt scientists between 1933 and 1945. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2008, p. 144
  3. ↑ Who is who ?: Volume 13, 1958, p. 743
personal data
SURNAME Leek, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauche, Arnold Philipp Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyritz
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1959
Place of death Bad Wiessee