Eduard Dietrich

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Eduard Karl Robert Ludwig Dietrich (born October 10, 1860 in Sittendorf , † December 7, 1947 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and medical officer in Prussia.

Life

Eduard Dietrich's tombstone in the Lichterfelde cemetery

Dietrich was born as the son of the pastor Eduard Dietrich (1830–1905) and the pastor's daughter Alma Dietrich. Trinius (1835–1896) was born in Sittendorf / Krs. Sangerhausen in the Harz Mountains. Dietrich attended high schools in Erfurt and Nordhausen, where he passed his Abitur in 1879. He first studied law at the Georg-August University and became a member, later honorary member, of the Corps Hercynia Göttingen in 1881. In favor of medicine, he gave up law and moved to the Friedrichs University in Halle . There he was promoted to Dr. med. doctorate and approved in 1885 .

After a short internship, he moved to Möckern near Magdeburg , where he looked after several estates, farms and foresters as a “Count's doctor” . In 1888 he became a district physician in Möckern, in 1889 in Liebenwerda and in 1896 in Merseburg.

In 1900 Dietrich followed an appointment as a government and medical councilor in the district of Marienwerder . A few weeks later he joined the medical department of the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Matters , where he was primarily responsible for the care of babies and toddlers, “cripple care” and the training regulations for the medical auxiliary professions.

Eduard Dietrich was the managing director of the German Association for Cripple Care (since 1962 German Association for Rehabilitation (DVfR) ) when it was founded on April 14, 1909 in Berlin.

In 1923 he was appointed ministerial director to head the People's Welfare Department in the Prussian Ministry of Welfare. Dietrich was also a link to the Protestant welfare organizations. At the end of the 1920s he played a major role in founding the Association for the Establishment of Protestant Hospitals . Like no other, Dietrich stands for the long tradition of the Prussian medical office beyond the end of the empire. The social hygienic health policy of the Weimar Republic was significantly influenced by him.

Dietrich also achieved great merits in the field of balneology and rheumatology : in 1912 he founded the Central Office for Balneology with the aim of better developing the spa and bathing resorts. In 1920 he became chairman of the Balneological Society ; The general secretary was Max Hirsch . In 1926 he participated in the establishment of the International Rheumatism League in Piešťany with Jan van Breemen (1874–1961) and Robert Fortescue Fox (1858–1940). In 1927 he became chairman of the German section of the International Committee for Research and Control of Rheumatism, newly founded in Schreiberhau . Shortly thereafter, the German Society for the Control of Rheumatism emerged. In 1933 Dietrich resigned as chairman of the Society for Balneology and the Society for Combating Rheumatism as part of the introduction of the Führer principle .

Honors

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Eduard Dietrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 43/61
  2. ↑ https://dgrh.de/Start/Publikationen/Historisches-Archiv-der-DGRh/90-Jahre-DGRh/Max-Hirsch-–-Gründervater-mit-tragischem-Schicksal.html
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 65/283
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietrich, Eduard Karl Robert Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and medical officer in Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Sittendorf
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1947
Place of death Berlin