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Berthold Ostertag (1919)

Berthold Ostertag (born February 28, 1895 in Berlin , † November 14, 1975 in Tübingen ) was a German pathologist .

Life

Berthold Ostertag was the son of the veterinarian Robert von Ostertag and his wife Margarete, née Hertwig. Ostertag finished his school career in 1913 with the Abitur and then did his six-month military service. He then began studying medicine at the University of Tübingen . During his studies he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Tübingen in 1914 and later in 1919 a member of the Corps Marchia Berlin . Due to the war, he had to interrupt his studies after the outbreak of World War I , as he was drafted into the German Army as a medical sergeant . For the Physikum he was able to resume his studies in Tübingen in 1915.

After the end of the war, Ostertag built a student company in Tübingen and took part in battles against rebellious Spartakists with a volunteer corps . After renewed resumption closed Ostertag 1920 to study with state examination and received his doctorate in Tübingen Dr. med. Then he was a trainee doctor at the Pathological Institute of the University of Tübingen and from 1921 at the Berlin Pathological Institute. Further stations were a guest assistant under Walther Spielmeyer at the German Research Institute for Psychiatry in Munich , the management of the laboratory of the University Neurological Clinic of the Charité under Karl Bonhoeffer and finally a position at the Pathological Institute of the University of Tübingen. From 1925 he was the prosector of the sanatorium and nursing home Berlin-Buch. He married Ilse Kobel in 1924 with whom he had two daughters and a son.

In the course of the seizure of power , he joined the SA in 1933 , where he achieved the rank of medical storm leader. At the beginning of August 1933 he chased away "in SA uniform his Jewish liaison brother Rudolf Jaffé as head of the Pathological Institute at the Moabit Hospital ". In May 1934 he moved from there in the same position to the Pathological Institute of the Rudolf Virchow Hospital and remained in this position until the end of the war in spring 1945. On August 1, 1935, he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 3,669,462). Ostertag had a serious conflict with the brain researcher Oskar Vogt , as a result of which his SA membership was withdrawn in 1937.

At the medical faculty of the University of Berlin, he obtained his habilitation in pathology in 1935 . He then taught at the University of Berlin, initially as a private lecturer and from May 1940 as an adjunct professor.

During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a medical officer at the end of 1940 , but was still able to live and work in Berlin. He was also responsible for the army's brain injury hospitals . After the war-related destruction of his institute in September 1943, parts of the institute were relocated to Hohenlychen . Then he was still deployed in Teupitz , Bad Nauheim and at the beginning of 1945 in Tübingen.

Ostertag cooperated with the Reich Committee in the course of child euthanasia . He also devoted himself to research on “intrauterine damage to the child based on sections at the Hefter's clinic”. Together with his senior physician Hans Klein, he autopsied children who were murdered in the children's department of the municipal mental hospital for children and adolescents in Wiesengrund in Berlin-Wittenau . On May 8, 1944, he wrote to the German Research Foundation, among other things: "We receive the material to be investigated by the Reich Committee to record congenital malformations, etc.".

After the war he was denazified . From 1950 he headed the neuropathological laboratory at the Tübingen University Nervous Clinic, where he set up the Institute for Brain Research. In 1960 he was appointed associate professor for neuropathology and retired in 1964 . Ostertag was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1964 . Ostertag, who worked as a neuro and tumor pathologist, had his research focus on constitutional pathology.

“I don't care what comes in my obituary - I don't read it anymore. It is more important to me that the Bund [Rhenania] continues to exist properly. "

- Easter day in a letter dated February 6, 1972)

Fonts

  • Classification and characteristics of the brain growths: Your natural classification for understanding seat, spread, etc. Structure of tissue , Fischer, Jena 1936
  • Pathology of the space-occupying processes of the interior of the skull , Enke, Stuttgart 1941
  • The dissection technique of the brain and the spinal cord together with instructions for making findings , Springer, Berlin 1944

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Who is who? , Volume 14, Schmidt-Römhild, 1962, p. 1127
  2. ↑ KCL 1960, 4 , 581 and 1960, 128 , 683.
  3. ↑ a b c d Hans-Walter Schmuhl (Ed.): Rassenforschung at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes before and after 1933 , Göttingen 2003, p. 337
  4. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 446
  5. ↑ a b c The Nuremberg Doctors Trial 1946/47. Index tape for the microfiche edition . Walter de Gruyter, 2000. pp. 128f.
  6. ↑ a b Rolf Castell (ed.): History of child and adolescent psychiatry in Germany from 1937 to 1961. , Göttingen 2003, p. 526f.
  7. ↑ Quoted in Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 446
personal data
SURNAME Easter day, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1975
Place of death Tübingen