Carl Hamel

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Carl Hamel (born June 19, 1870 in Düren , † September 12, 1949 in Rhöndorf ; also: Karl Hamel ) was a German doctor. From 1926 to 1933 he was President of the Reich Health Office .

The grave of Carl Hamel and his wife Hedwig in the Hamel-Kluxen family grave in the Münster Central Cemetery .

Family, studies and training

His father, son of the bookseller Hubert Joseph Hamel and his wife Wilhelmine Gottgetreu, was the newspaper publisher Robert Hamel (1839-1896). His mother, daughter of the master chimney sweep Christian Hubert Schmitz from Jülich and his wife Carola Franzisca Hilbert, was Gertrud Schmitz (1845–1924).

In Düren he attended high school. After beginning his studies in medicine in 1889 in Berlin, Heidelberg and Strasbourg he obtained in 1894 the doctorate to the Dr. med. in Munich. There he worked as a trainee doctor at the Institute for Pathology and Anatomy at the University of Munich . From 1894 to 1898 he acquired further knowledge in the surgery department at the Neurahnsdorf and Friedrichshain hospitals in 1898.

Reich Health Office and Reich Health Council

With Ernst Grawitz (1860-1911) he worked from 1898 to 1901 in the department for internal medicine in Charlottenburg . He continued this work with the internist Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt at the Charité from 1901 to 1902. Then he moved to the Reich Health Office as a scientific assistant. There he was promoted to government councilor in 1906 .

In 1918 he held the position of a lecturer in the Reichsamt des Interior (Reich Ministry of the Interior). After the ministry was reorganized in 1922, he headed the public health subdivision as ministerial director . On July 1, 1926, he was appointed President of the Reich Health Office, which he headed until 1933. With this position he also took over the chairmanship of the Reich Health Council .

After a discussion under his chairmanship of 14 deaths as part of a large-scale test with tuberculosis vaccinations carried out in Lübeck in 1930, the guidelines for novel therapeutic treatments and for scientific experiments on humans were delivered to the state governments by the Reich Ministry of the Interior on February 28, 1931 .

In the course of the Nazi seizure of power with their new appointments to the state organizations, the Reich Health Council also ended. On June 1, 1933, he ended his public activities and went before the age limit in retirement .

Fight against disease

In his practical work as a doctor he discovered the presence of basophil granular erythrocytes in chronic lead poisoning . His results, compiled in 1908, for a survey to record skin tuberculosis paved the way for combating this disease. He supported the movement of popular sanctuaries and helped found the cure for lupus erythematosus in Müncheberg .

He was married to Hedwig Kluxen since 1910 and lived in Berlin NW 87, Klopstockstraße 18.

Offices as president

  • German Central Committee to Combat Tuberculosis
  • Reich Committee for Hygienic Public Education
  • Board of Trustees of the Kaiserin Friedrich Foundation for Medical Training
  • Medical Committee of the German Society for Industrial Hygiene
  • German Association for School Health Care
  • Reich Committee for Wine Research
  • Board of Trustees of the Billroth Foundation for German Medicine Abroad

Membership (selection)

  • Hygiene Committee of the League of Nations
  • Permanent committee of the International Health Office in Paris (as permanent German representative)
  • Main board of the German Red Cross
  • Board of the German Society for Combating Venereal Diseases
  • Chairman of the German Central Committee for Research into and Combating Cancer Disease
  • Board of Directors of the Association for Public Health Care
  • Honorary member of the Society of Medical Officers of Health

Honor

Fonts

  • About congenital sacral tumors. Munich 1895.
  • German sanatoriums for lung patients: historical and statistical reports. 6 vols. Springer, Berlin 1904–1918.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart : History of Medicine. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1990; 3rd, revised edition, ibid 1998, pp. 333–336.
personal data
SURNAME Hamel, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1949
Place of death Rhöndorf