August Hauer

August Hauer (born March 29, 1886 in Bollendorf , † 1947 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German doctor and writer.

Life

August Hauer, a son of the businessman Karl Hauer, attended elementary school in Bollendorf and then the grammar school in Trier . He studied medicine in Berlin and then became a military doctor in the German colony of East Africa. In 1917 he became a British prisoner of war as a medical officer. After he returned to Berlin in 1921, he settled down as a specialist in tropical diseases and received the title of professor. In 1930 he married. During the Second World War he served as a medical officer and eventually became chief physician of the Berlin hospitals of the Africa Corps . Hauer and his patients were taken prisoner by the Soviets when Berlin was occupied towards the end of the war. He was taken to a camp east of Moscow , from which he escaped in August 1946. But he was then detained in Frankfurt an der Oder and allegedly received injections there. The news that he died there in March or April 1947 is considered unconfirmed.

Hauer published some books. Kumbuke is about the existence of an Africa fighter at the time of the First World War , Ali Mocambique is a collection of African fables, Meine Kinship is a memory book in which Hauer describes his childhood in the Eifel . In addition to these works of fiction, he also published popular scientific writings such as the small medical helper for emigrants, etc. and the impure blood as well as as a front doctor in the course of Lettow . Furthermore, the East African campaign in tropical hygienic lighting comes from his pen, as well as the book Medical Consultant for Overseas and Tropics .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Wätzold: Master list of the Kaiser Wilhelms Academy for military medical education. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-662-34483-5 , p. 591 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
2. ↑ Entry on August Hauer in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on July 10, 2018 .