Curt Sunshine
Curt Sonnenschein (born March 7, 1894 in Mainz ; † 1986 ) was a German physician and university professor .
Life
Curt Sonnenschein was the son of Albert Sonnenschein and his wife Marie, née Stocker. He attended grammar school and secondary school in Mainz and, after graduating from high school, studied medicine at the universities of Gießen and Freiburg im Breisgau. After completing his medical degree, Sonnenschein specialized in hygiene medicine . He completed his habilitation in Cologne in 1927. In 1932 he became an associate professor at the Hamburg Tropical Institute . On November 11, 1933, he signed the " Confession of Professors at German Universities and Colleges" to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist State . In 1936 he became head of the bacteriological-serological department and was elected to the board of the German Tropical Medicine Society (DTG). He was also a member of the Institute for Racial Hygiene . After Karl Pesch's death , he was appointed to the chair for hygiene and bacteriology at the German Charles University in Prague , which had been declared a "front university" by the National Socialists in December 1941 .
Sonnenschein took on the racist cleansing in the DTG with particular zeal, as recent studies show.
In 1948 he became full professor for hygiene and bacteriology at the University of Würzburg , director of the institute for hygiene and microbiology and head of the state institute for medical-technical assistants. From 1958 to 1959, Sonnenschein was rector of the University of Würzburg. He died in 1986.
Works
- The Hamburg Tropical Institute as a teaching and advanced training facility, in: Festschrift Bernhard Nocht on the occasion of his 80th birthday (November 4, 1937) by his friends and students, ed. v. Institute for Ship and Tropical Diseases in Hamburg with the support of the "Hamburg Scientific Foundation" and the "Association of Friends of the Hamburg Tropical Institute", Glückstadt / Hamburg / New York 1937, p. 592.
- Advanced training in the field of tropical hygiene and tropical medicine, 1938
- Directory of recent dissertations and habilitation theses published in Germany in the field of tropical medicine and tropical hygiene, medicine abroad and their border areas (1930–1938), Leipzig, 1940
- House and hospital construction in the tropics, in: Colonial health management in Africa. - Leipzig: Barth, pp. 292-300, 1941
- Postwar Health Service in South West Africa, 1941
literature
- Ernst Klee: Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich, Frankfurt, 2003 (2nd edition), p. 587f. ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .
- Friedrich Hansen: History of the DTG, From Colonialism to Geomedicine (Lecture) (PDF file; 32 kB)
- Petr Svobodný: Wanderings and Changes: The Medical Faculty of the German University in Prague and its relations with German and Austrian universities in the years 1882–1945 . In: Walter Pape (Ed.): Ten years of university partnership. Univerzita Karlova v Praze - University of Cologne. Colloquium on university and specialist history , electronic series of the University and City Library Cologne, Volume 3, University and City Library Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-931596-57-6 , p. 25.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sunshine, Curt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1986 |