Axel Beckmann

Signature of Axel Beckmann

Axel Beckmann (born November 27, 1920 in Rostock ; † 1995 ; full name: Axel Ferdinand Robert Jochen Günter Beckmann ) was a German physiologist . He taught at the University of Rostock .

Life

Axel Beck's parents were the doctorate teacher Paul Beckmann (1888-1962) and his wife Margarete Beckmann, born Düwel (1892 to 1977). From 1927 he attended an elementary school in Rostock, from 1930 an upper secondary school. There he received his high school diploma on March 1, 1938 and then went to the Wehrmacht . In 1940 he moved to the University of Rostock and studied medicine. Around 1945 he worked in the Wehrmacht as a sub-doctor in the reserve at the Rostock Army Medical Center. In that year he completed his medical studies and passed the state examination . In that year he was employed as an assistant doctor at the Goetheschule auxiliary hospital in Rostock and appointed as an auxiliary and camp doctor at the resettler department of the city council. He held both functions until 1946.

In 1946 Beckmann received his doctorate in medicine in Rostock . The dissertation was called About positive Weil-Felix reactions in the environment of typhus sufferers and in people with lice . In the same year he took up the position of compulsory assistant at the Rostock University Women's Clinic. In 1947 he switched to the university's polyclinic as a compulsory assistant and was approved. Since October 1st of this year he has been working as a research assistant at the university. In 1946 he married Ursula Vick, with whom he later had three children.

Beckmann was promoted to senior scientific assistant at the university on January 1, 1951. On 11 May 1953 he was in medical school habilitation , in September of the same year, he served at the university as a lecturer and was also acting director of the Institute of Physiology.

On January 1, 1956, the university appointed Beckmann professor with a teaching position for physiology and appointed him as the actual director of the institute on June 1. On February 1, 1960 he received the full teaching position. In 1964 he became a member of the Section for Physiology and Endocrinology at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . He was also a member of the Society of Physiology in the GDR , of which he was a board member from 1968 to 1979 and chairman from 1970 to 1974. From 1973 on he was also a member of the Central Expert Commission for Physiology at the Academy for Medical Training in the GDR .

After the death of his first wife, Axel Beckmann married Ursula Beckmann-Schikorra , who was born on July 22, 1925 and worked at the university as a university lecturer for methodology of German teaching until 1985. Beckmann came in 1986 in the retirement and died 1995th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the entry of Axel Beckmann's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

Web links

• Literature about Axel Beckmann in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Axel Beckmann in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium