Curt Elze

Curt Elze (born February 16, 1885 in Halle , † April 9, 1972 in Kassel ) was a German anatomist , professor and rector of the University of Rostock .

Life

Curt Elze was the son of the lawyer Curt Elze (1852-1937) and his wife Lina (1857-1936), née Frenkel. His younger brother was the officer and military historian Walter Elze . Elze finished his school career in 1902 with the Abitur in his hometown. He then completed a degree in medicine at the Universities of Freiburg and Halle , which he completed in 1907 with the medical state examination. After completing his medical internship, he was promoted to Dr. med. doctorate and approved the following month . He was then the first prosector at the University of Vienna and from 1912 to 1921 at the University of Heidelberg , where he completed his habilitation in anatomy in 1912 and became a private lecturer . After the outbreak of the First World War , he initially served as a military doctor and from 1916 on in a Heidelberg hospital. In October 1918 he was appointed associate professor in Heidelberg and in April 1921 moved to the University of Giessen as a prosector , where he also worked as an associate professor.

On October 1, 1921, he was appointed to the chair for anatomy at the University of Rostock , where he was director of the anatomical institute. He was dean of the medical faculty in 1926/1927 . From March 1931 to February 1932 he was first rector and then one year prorector of the University of Rostock. At the time of National Socialism , he joined the Nazi teachers' association in 1934 and was also a member of the NSV and the Reich Air Protection Association . He did not become a member of the party until the beginning of April 1940 ( membership number 8.007.883).

In October 1936 he switched to the chair of anatomy in Giessen and was judged by the local head of lecturers as follows: “He used to be negative about National Socialism, but I got the impression that he clearly recognized what National Socialism was for Germany and the world means “.

From April 1940 he taught as a full professor at the University of Würzburg , where he was director of the anatomical institute. After the retirement of the medical historian Georg Sticker in 1934, Elze also took over his teaching in Würzburg. During the absence of Ludwig Schmidt and Friedrich Keiter , Elze temporarily headed the University's Racial Biology Institute from May 1941. After the end of the Second World War , supported by the extraordinary professor Heinrich von Hayek, he resumed teaching in Würzburg on May 1, 1947, as a full professor of anatomy at the institute at Koellikerstraße 6, where he was retired in 1952 . His successor was Kurt Neubert (1952–1967).

His main research interests were "macroscopic anatomy, the art of anatomical dissection and the history of medicine". From 1934 to 1967 he published the magazine for anatomy and development history and from 1938 to 1967 the results of anatomy and development history . From 1932 he took over the continuation of the textbook Human Anatomy from Hermann Braus and was the author of various specialist publications on anatomy, development history and medical history.

Since 1916 he was married to Annemarie (* 1892), nee Keil. The couple had two sons and two daughters. One son was the Hamburg theology professor Martin Elze . The second son was the historian and university professor Reinhard Elze .

Fonts (selection)

Contribution to the histology of the mammalian embryonic intestine. Dissertation at the University of Freiburg in 1909.
Studies on the general history of the development of the blood vessel system: T. 1. Anatom. u. physiol. Basics. Cohen, Bonn 1913, from: Archiv f. microscopic Anat. Volume 82. Section 1. (also: Heidelberg, Med. Hab.-Schr., 1912).
About the shape and structure of the human stomach. Winter, Heidelberg 1919.
The human body. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1966.

literature

Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. A biographical lexicon. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11775-6 .

Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberg learned lexicon . 1803-1932. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-540-15856-1 , p. 59.

Elze, Curt . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 3 : Einstein – Görner . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094655-6 , p. 50 .

Web links

Literature by and about Curt Elze in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Curt Elze in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberg Gelehrtenlexikon. 1803-1932. Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, p. 59.
^ Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum : Prussia in the George circle: Walter Elze. In: V. Caspari (ed.): Theory and history of the economy. Festschrift for Bertram Schefold. Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89518-715-5 , pp. 331-357, here p. 343.
↑ Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. A biographical lexicon. Saur, Munich 2007, p. 122.
^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 134.
↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Supplement 3; also dissertation Würzburg 1995), ISBN 3-88479-932-0 , p. 40.
↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Supplement 3; also dissertation Würzburg 1995), ISBN 3-88479-932-0 , pp. 40–42.
↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, pp. 11 and 21.
^ ^A ^b ^c Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. A biographical lexicon. Saur, Munich 2007, p. 122 f.
^ Theodor Heinrich Schiebler: Anatomy in Würzburg (from 1593 to the present). In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6), ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 985-1004; here: p. 1001 and 1004.
↑ Elze, Curt . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 3 : Einstein – Görner . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094655-6 , p. 50 .

personal data
SURNAME	Elze, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German anatomist, professor and rector of the University of Rostock
DATE OF BIRTH	February 16, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hall
DATE OF DEATH	April 9, 1972
Place of death	kassel

[Drüll59-1] Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberg Gelehrtenlexikon. 1803-1932. Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, p. 59.

[2] Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum : Prussia in the George circle: Walter Elze. In: V. Caspari (ed.): Theory and history of the economy. Festschrift for Bertram Schefold. Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89518-715-5 , pp. 331-357, here p. 343.

[Buddrus/Fritzlar122-3] Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. A biographical lexicon. Saur, Munich 2007, p. 122.

[Klee134-4] Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 134.

[5] Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Supplement 3; also dissertation Würzburg 1995), ISBN 3-88479-932-0 , p. 40.

[6] Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Supplement 3; also dissertation Würzburg 1995), ISBN 3-88479-932-0 , pp. 40–42.

[7] Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, pp. 11 and 21.

[Buddrus/Fritzlar122f.-8] A ^b ^c Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. A biographical lexicon. Saur, Munich 2007, p. 122 f.

[9] Theodor Heinrich Schiebler: Anatomy in Würzburg (from 1593 to the present). In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6), ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 985-1004; here: p. 1001 and 1004.

[10] Elze, Curt . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 3 : Einstein – Görner . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094655-6 , p. 50 .