Carl Noeggerath

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Carl Temmermann Noeggerath (born June 4, 1876 in New York , † June 5, 1952 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German pediatrician and university professor .

Life

Noeggerath was the son of a gynecologist. He passed his matriculation examination in 1895 and then completed a medical degree at the universities of Bonn, Breslau, Frankfurt am Main and Basel. During his studies in 1895 he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity . At the University of Leipzig , where he was an assistant at the polyclinic from 1900, he was awarded a doctorate in 1901. med. PhD . He then worked as an assistant at the Pathological-Anatomical Institute in Heidelberg, the Hygienic Institute of the University of Breslau, the Institute for Experimental Therapy in Frankfurt am Main and at the Medical Clinic in Basel. From 1905 he worked at the Berlin Health Department. He worked from 1906 to 1913 as a senior physician at the Pediatric Clinic of the Charité , where he joined in 1911 as Associate Professor of Pediatrics Habilitation and finally associate professor was. At the beginning of April 1913 he followed a call to the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , where he was appointed head of the university children's clinic and an extraordinary professor of paediatrics. From March 1919 until his retirement at the end of April 1949 he was a full professor at the University of Freiburg.

After the end of the Second World War he was a member of the cleaning committee of the medical faculty of the University of Freiburg, which was set up to denazify the teaching staff. In a manuscript written by him and not published, he stated that he had been summoned to the Fuehrer's office during the war . There he was advised to set up the "Southwest German Extermination Office for Unworthy Children" in the Freiburg University Children's Hospital. He refused this request. In his opinion, infanticide should not be kept secret in Catholic Freiburg. Therefore, "the harm to the party would be greater [...] than the possible benefit to the cause".

As part of the development of paediatrics, Noeggerath researched infectious diseases, pathological physiology and social hygiene in particular. He was the author of various specialist publications. He was co-editor of the journals Zeitschrift für Kinderheilkunde , Archiv für Kinderheilkunde and Monthly Journal for Paediatrics . In 1951 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Freiburg.

Fonts (selection)

  • The behavior of germ forms directly from the air in fresh animal wounds (dissertation at the University of Leipzig, 1901)
  • Breastfeeding ban in cases of tuberculosis and suspected tuberculosis (habilitation thesis at the University of Berlin 1911)
  • Together with Albert Eckstein : The urogenital diseases of children: disorders and Illness d. Urinary readiness ud sex sphere and its organs , FCW Vogel, Leipzig 1925. (From: Handbuch d. Kinderheilkunde)
  • From the spiritual roots of medicine A commitment to the Universitas artium et litterarum. Karl Alber Freiburg 1947 (extended version of a public lecture on his 70th birthday)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German biographical encyclopedia: Menghin – Pötel , Volume 7, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2007, p. 491
  2. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 271.
  3. ^ Reports of the Natural Research Society of Freiburg i. Br, volumes 40–41, Freiburg i. B. 1950, p. 250
  4. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 438
personal data
SURNAME Noeggerath, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noeggerath, Carl Temmermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1952
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau