Carl Otto von Eicken

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Carl Otto von Eicken, around 1920

Carl Otto von Eicken (born December 31, 1873 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † June 29, 1960 in Heilbronn ) was a German medic.

Life

Carl Otto von Eicken, son of Carl von Eicken and his wife Helene, née Fischer, studied medicine at the universities of Kiel, Geneva, Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg. In 1899 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg and then placed himself in the service of the surgeon Vincenz Czerny for a two-year surgical training. In 1901 von Eicken became Gustav Killian's assistant and senior physician, both of whom worked closely together. In the following years he dealt with otology . In 1910 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Giessen for the subject of ear, nose and throat medicine. At the same time was Eicken during the First World War as a medical officer of the reserve at the front at the field hospital 3 of the XVIII. Army Corps in action.

In 1921 von Eicken succeeded Killian as full professor in Berlin and five years later became director of the combined first and second ENT clinic at the Charité .

In 1936 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He was an advisory ENT doctor to the Army Medical Inspector . On August 18, 1942, Adolf Hitler appointed him a full member of the Scientific Senate of the Army Medical Service . He also promoted him on September 1, 1944 to general physician of the reserve and awarded him the Goethe Medal for Art and Science . In the same year, Eicken became an adviser to the General Commissioner for Sanitary and Health Care Karl Brandt .

In the post-war period, von Eicken became a full professor at the East Berlin Humboldt University .

tomb

He is buried in the Dahlem forest cemetery.

plant

Eicken worked under Gustav Killian on the further development of the examination methods of the throat and pharynx and developed the indirect hypopharyngoscopy, which should turn out to be a basic requirement for the Killian suspension method. Von Eicke's method enabled the larynx to be pulled forward under local anesthesia using a U-shaped hook, which for the first time allowed an insight into the hypopharynx without surgery .

Various radical operations under local anesthesia of the maxillary sinuses can also be traced back to Eicken, as well as the discovery of a pathologically changed styloid process , which leads to swallowing difficulties and the radiation of pain.

More than 120 scientific publications resulted from his professional activity, one of his most important works is the colored atlas of otorhinolaryngology , which he developed together with his former student Alfred Schulz van Treeck . This publication is still regarded today as a standard work in specialist training for ENT doctors.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (Ed.): The Generals of the Army 1921-1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 3: Dahlmann – Fitzlaff. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1994. ISBN 3-7648-2443-3 . Pp. 302-303.
  • Werner Kindler: The History of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Berlin. Georg Thieme Publishing House . Stuttgart 1956.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hans Killian : There is only God behind us. Sub umbra dei. A surgeon remembers. Kindler, Munich 1957; Paperback edition: Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1967; 10th edition 1975, ISBN 3-451-01779-2 , p. 16.
  2. ^ Member entry by Carl von Eicken at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 19, 2015.
  3. a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 130.