Curt Oehme

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Curt Oskar Alfred Oehme (born December 17, 1883 in Dresden ; † October 5, 1963 in Heidelberg ) was a German internist and university professor .

Life

Oehme was the son of a doctor. From 1902 he studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Leipzig and Berlin and was approved in Freiburg in 1908 and in the same year as a Dr. med. PhD . He then worked mainly at the Medical Polyclinic of the University of Göttingen until 1919 , and from 1909 to 1911 at the Medical University Clinic in Bonn. He completed his habilitation in 1913 in Göttingen, where he was appointed associate professor in 1918. In the winter semester of 1919/20, he and his teacher Carl Hirsch moved to the Medical University Clinic in Bonn, where Hirsch became director of the clinic and senior physician. At the instigation of Ludolf von Krehl he came to Heidelberg University , where he headed the Medical Polyclinic in Heidelberg from January 1928 until his retirement in 1952. Initially a regular associate professor, from 1932 he taught internal medicine at the University of Heidelberg. Due to his distance from National Socialism , an appointment to the University of Halle failed in 1936 due to a negative opinion by the then rector of the Heidelberg University Wilhelm Groh .

At the end of the war in April 1945 after Heidelberg was occupied by the US Army, he was a member of the Thirteen Committee for the organizational and intellectual rebuilding of the university, which consisted of unencumbered personalities. In the postwar period Oehme was during the physician process as one of the reviewers for relieving Wilhelm Beiglböck concerning Dachau concentration camp called carried out on prisoners seawater trials and campaigned for its rehabilitation. After leaving university, he was still working in Heidelberg at the St. Josephs Hospital.

Oehme researched and published on metabolic diseases and hormones. Together with his students, he was able to prove "that the thyroid gland is under the influence of the pituitary gland. Independently of other researchers, they discovered the thyroid hormone (TSH) in 1930. In experimental studies, Oehme later examined the relationship between energy expenditure and protein metabolism."

Oehme was with Dr. Margaret, née Brauweiler, married.

Memberships

Since 1937 Oehme was a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , of which he was president from 1951 to 1953. He was also a corresponding member of the Göttingen Medical Society and an honorary member of the German Society for Internal Medicine .

Fonts (selection)

  • About aging and death: Speech at the foundation ceremony of the Academy of Sciences in Heidelberg on June 4, 1944 , Weiss, Heidelberg 1944
  • The education of the doctor: A contribution to human education in general , Kerle, Heidelberg 1948 (Heidelberg lectures, vol. 8)
  • Goethe and today's doctor , Hippokrates-Verlag, Stuttgart 1950
  • Grown along the way: Paralipomena , Skulima, Heidelberg 1961

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Axel W. Bauer: Internal medicine, neurology and dermatology . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart, Volker Sellin, Eike Wolgast (Eds.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism. Heidelberg 2006, p. 778
  2. ^ Eike Wolgast : The University of Heidelberg 1386–1986 , Springer-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1986, ISBN 978-3-642-64896-0 , p. 167
  3. ↑ Alexander Mitscherlich / Fred Mielke: Medicine without humanity. Documents of the Nuremberg Medical Trial , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1960 (16th edition 2004), ISBN 3-596-22003-1 (incorrect), p. 371.
  4. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German biographical encyclopedia: Menghin – Pötel , Volume 7, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2007, p. 543
  5. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Curt Oehme. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on June 18, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Research and progress: News sheet of German science and technology , volumes 35–37, 1961, p. 352
personal data
SURNAME Oh, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oehme, Curt Oskar Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1963
Place of death Heidelberg