August Brüning (physician)

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August Friedrich Martin Brüning (born April 17, 1874 in Vienenburg ; † 1941 ) was a German physician and university professor who worked as an associate professor for surgery and orthopedics at the University of Giessen .

Life

He was the son of the traffic inspector Rudolf Brüning and was born in Vienenburg in the northern Harz foreland. His mother was Auguste nee Jaeger. After attending grammar school, he studied at the universities in Halle and Munich. He then became an assistant at the Pathological Institute in Halle, later switching to surgery there and finally to the surgical clinic in Gießen. At the university there he was an associate professor from 1912 to 1939. Brüning was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten . Shortly before his retirement, August Brüning joined the NSDAP in 1936.

The architect Hans Meyer built a professor's villa for him in 1922.

family

August Brüning married Auguste in 1907, the daughter of the professor of zoology JW Spengel. The children Rudolph, Wilhelm, Annemarie, Helmut, Walther and Herta emerged from the marriage.

literature

Individual proof

  1. Literarisches Zentralblatt für Deutschland, Volume 92, 1941, p. 833.
  2. Sigrid Oehler-Klein (ed.): The Medical Faculty of the University of Giessen: Medical Faculty of the University of Giessen in National Socialism and the Post-War Era, People and Institutions, Upheavals and Continuities , Stuttgart 2007, Steiner, pp. 67, 614.