Carl-Theodor Georg

Carl-Theodor Georg (born January 23, 1884 on the Rettbergsaue near Biebrich ; † June 11, 1966 in San Pedro de Macorís ) was a German doctor , plantation owner and hospital founder in the Dominican Republic .

Life

Georg initially studied agricultural sciences and later medicine in Bonn from the winter semester 1902/1903 . The continuation of medical studies in Jena came to a quick end when he was expelled after a tumult. Georg served another year in the mounted field artillery, was also qualified as a reserve officer and then emigrated to the Dominican Republic in 1907. There he founded a large plantation and what is still the most modern hospital in the Dominican Republic, his wife's home. At the same time, he finished his medical studies with distinction and managed the hospital, which he was constantly expanding, as owner and chief physician until his death. At that time (1966) the hospital had more than 725 beds. Georg modernized the treatment methods. In his adopted home he was called the "Albert Schweitzer of the Caribbean".

Since 1903 a member of the uncovering union Salia , the later RSC-Corps Agraria Bonn, Georg was a staunch corporation student for life and supported his union with considerable sums for decades.

Awards

• Grand Cross of the Federal Order of Merit (1955)
• Star for the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1964)
• Honorary sponsor of the Tropical Institute Hamburg
• Senator of the Ibero-Germanic Institute
• Honorary member of the German-Ibero-American Medical Academy
• Honorary citizenship of San Pedro de Macoris , where a street was named after him

literature

• Buheitel, in: CC-Blätter , number 71, 1956, p. 18 f.