Bodo Spiethoff (dermatologist)

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Bodo Spiethoff (born November 15, 1875 in Düsseldorf , † August 24, 1948 in Haar ) was a German dermatologist and venereologist as well as a university professor .

Life

Bodo Spiethoff was the son of the writer Friedrich Spiethoff , his two years older brother was the economist Arthur Spiethoff . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the universities of Berlin and Jena from 1897 and after graduating in Jena in 1902 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He then worked as an assistant in Tübingen, Jena, Berlin and Hamburg and was qualified as a professor for skin and venereal diseases in Jena in 1905 . Spiethoff then headed a ward at the Clinic for Skin and Syphilitic Diseases under the internist Robert Stintzing in Jena. From 1911 Spiethoff was initially extraordinary, from 1919 planned extraordinary, from 1923 personal professor and from 1928 to 1934 full professor of dermatology at the University of Jena . He chaired the Thuringian regional association of the DGBG .

Through the race researcher Hans FK Günther , Spiethoff came into contact with National Socialism . He joined the NSDAP in early January 1931 . Before 1933, Adolf Hitler is said to have been his guest in Jena. On July 29, 1932, he and other university teachers called for the election of the NSDAP. In March 1933 he signed the declaration of 300 university lecturers for Adolf Hitler . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933 he was a member of the Advisory Council on Population and Racial Policy at the Reich Ministry of the Interior in Berlin and became President of the German Dermatological Society . Without any influence from the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig , he switched to the chair for skin and venereal diseases at the University of Leipzig as successor to Johann Heinrich Rille at the instigation of the Reichsärzteführer Gerhard Wagner and the Reich Ministry of the Interior . At the same time he acted as director of the dermatological university clinic in Leipzig. He became Reich Commissioner to Combat Venereal Diseases . In 1940 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Spiethoff retired in 1943 .

Fonts (selection)

  • About blood pressure in Graves' disease , 1902, (medical dissertation at the University of Jena)
  • Clinical and experimental studies on blastomycosis , 1905, (habilitation thesis at the University of Jena)
  • Infertility due to sexually transmitted diseases , Leipzig 1936. (with Hans Gottschalk)
  • The meaning of sexually transmitted diseases for women and the family , 2nd edition, Berlin 1937.
  • The meaning of sexually transmitted diseases for women and the family , 2nd edition, Berlin 1937.
  • The debt account for venereal diseases , Leipzig 1938.
  • Syphilis picture primer. The syphilitic person , Leipzig 1943.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DBE: Volume 9, Schlumberger – Thiersch. , Munich 2008, p. 552
  2. ↑ Albrecht Scholz, Karl Holubar, Günter Burg (ed.): History of German-speaking Dermatology, German Dermatological Society 2009, p. 46
  3. ^ A b Lutz DH sourdough: Illness, sexuality, society: venereal diseases and health policy in Germany in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In: Medicine, Society and History. Supplement 12, Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, p. 92.
  4. ^ A b Susanne Zimmermann, Thomas Zimmermann: The Medical Faculty of the University of Jena in the “Third Reich” - An overview. In: Uwe Hoßfeld (ed.): In the service of people and fatherland: The Jena University in the Nazi era. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-16704-5 , p. 129.
  5. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 592
personal data
SURNAME Spiethoff, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1948
Place of death hair