Bernhard Schmidt (hygienist)
Bernhard Schmidt (born May 20, 1906 in Magdeburg , † September 23, 2003 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German doctor , hygienist and university professor .
Life
Bernhard Schmidt, the son of the Magdeburg print shop owner Emil Schmidt, passed his Abitur at the Hessisches Realgymnasium in Mainz in 1925 . Schmidt, who then joined the Reichswehr , studied chemistry and natural sciences at the University of Giessen , switched to medicine and chemistry at the University of Munich in 1927 before taking the state examination and in 1932 becoming a Dr. med. received his doctorate . As a result, he received specialist training in hygiene and bacteriology , and in 1939 he received his habilitation at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and subsequently became a lecturer. After he was assigned to the military academy in Berlin, he was re-qualified at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin at the request of the Army Medical Inspection .
During the Second World War , from 1940 to 1944 he worked as a hygienist in an advisory capacity at the Army Medical Inspection and as a group leader in the science and health management department. Together with the senior staff doctor Hermann Eyer from the Institute for Typhus and Virus Research of the Army High Command in Krakow , Schmidt visited the typhus experiment station of the Hygiene Institute of the Waffen-SS in the Buchenwald concentration camp , which was run by the SS -Doctor Erwin Ding-Schuler .
After being a prisoner of war , Schmidt was appointed head of department at the city's hygienic institute and the University of Frankfurt am Main in March 1946 , and was appointed professor there in 1948 . In 1953 Schmidt followed the call to the professorship for hygiene at the Free University of Berlin and the management of the medical examination office in Wedding , in 1974 he retired . Schmidt, who was awarded the Hygieia Medal for his life's work from the Rudolf Schülke Foundation in 1978, made numerous scientific contributions in the areas of hygiene, bacteriology, serology and virology .
Fonts
- The hygienic importance of the central and local supply systems (food supply, water, sewage, gas, electricity) in peace and in war, 1938
- The feeding of the German people with special consideration of the feeding of their army, ES Mittler, 1939
- Hygienic aspects in the construction and furnishing of hospitals, 1958
literature
- Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 2, 10th edition, Berlin 1966, page 2165.
- Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, Volume 3, 13th Edition, De Gruyter: Berlin, New York, 1980. ISBN 3110074346 . Page 3425.
- August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? : the German who's who, Volume 42 , Schmidt-Römhild, 2003 ISBN 3795020360 . Page 1244.
- 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 .
Web links
- Obituary for Prof. Bernhard Schmidt (PDF; 459 kB) in www.berliner-aerzte.net, accessed on January 30, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 544
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor, hygienist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 2003 |
| Place of death | Esslingen am Neckar |