Egbert Schwarz

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Egbert Wolfgang Schwarz (born  June 22, 1890 in Kemmern near Riga ; †  December 23, 1966 in Erfurt ) was a German surgeon . From 1921 he worked as a lecturer and professor at the University of Rostock , from 1934 as chief physician in Erfurt and from 1954 to 1960 at the Medical Academy in Erfurt , where he was also the clinic director and from 1954 to 1959 as the founding rector of the university.

Life

Egbert Schwarz came from a German-Baltic family from which numerous renowned artists and scholars had emerged. His father was chief physician for neurology in Riga , where Egbert Schwarz spent his childhood and youth. After attending the Livonian knight high school in Birkenruh near Wenden , he studied medicine at the universities of Leipzig , Freiburg and Rostock from 1910 to 1916 . Here he passed the state examination in 1916 and received his doctorate in 1917 , after which he worked in Rostock as an assistant at the pathological institute and at the surgical clinic. From December 1917 he was a troop doctor on the western front of the First World War , most recently as a battalion doctor . In December 1918 he returned to the Surgical Clinic of the University of Rostock, which was under the direction of Wilhelm Müller , his future father-in-law. After he had also obtained his habilitation at Rostock University in 1921 , he worked there from the same year as a private lecturer , and from 1926 as an associate professor of surgery. At the same time he acted as a senior physician at the surgical university clinic. Schwarz played a key role in the construction of this clinic, which went into operation in 1930.

In 1934 he switched to the position of chief physician of the 1928 newly established clinic for surgery of the municipal hospitals in Erfurt , where he was medical director from 1939 to May 1945. During the Second World War , part of the surgical clinic was converted into a reserve hospital, which from 1942 specialized in injuries to the central nervous system . During this time, Schwarz was a member of the SS with the rank of SS-Obersturmführer . In 1946 the State Health Office in Weimar revoked Egbert Schwarz's license to practice medicine, against which the hospital administration protested. In 1948 a general assembly of the municipal hospital drafted a resolution in favor of an acquittal by the denazification committee of the state of Thuringia. A year later, Schwarz appeared on a list of former teachers who could be considered for future teaching assignments. In 1950 he was again medical director of the municipal hospital in Erfurt. After founding the Medical Academy in Erfurt in 1954, Egbert Schwarz worked there until 1960 as a professor of surgery and director of the surgical clinic and polyclinic. His main areas of medical activity were the general and visceral as well, based on his medical experience in treating wounded during the Second World War, the reconstructive surgery and neurosurgery .

Egbert Schwarz made special contributions to the preparation and establishment of the Medical Academy Erfurt, which he saw in the tradition of the first Erfurt University , which was closed in 1816 . From 1954 to 1959, he was the first rector of the university in its crucial development phase. In addition to its supply and training mandate, this should also become a cultural institution. In this regard, he suggested the formation of a Collegium musicum and a student choir. On his initiative, optional lectures on the history of art and literature as well as the history of medicine were offered. The foundation of the scientific journal Contributions to the History of the University of Erfurt (1392-1816) in 1956 goes back to Egbert Schwarz.

Egbert Schwarz was married to Hedwig, b. Müller (1896–), daughter of the surgeon Wilhelm Müller , and father of five children. Besides medicine, he was particularly interested in classical music , aesthetic literature and history .

Honors

Egbert Schwarz was a corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin from 1955 and was also admitted to the Presidium of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1958 and a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in 1959 . In addition, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Medical Academy in Erfurt and was an honorary member of a large number of scientific societies. He also received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and the honorary title of Honored Doctor of the People . The Association of Northwest German Surgeons elected him an honorary member.

Works

  • The Echinococcal Disease. Stuttgart 1928 (as co-author)
  • Surgery and technology. Leipzig and Jena 1954
  • The fractures and dislocations and their treatment: A textbook for students and doctors. Jena 1958

literature

  • Schwarz, Egbert . In: Werner Hartkopf:The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992,ISBN 3-05-002153-5, p. 331.
  • Schwarz, Egbert. In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 838.
  • Horst Rudolf Abe : Egbert Schwarz in memory. In: Contributions to the history of the University of Erfurt (1392-1816). Erfurt 1967, pp. 5–12

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Egbert Schwarz matriculated in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Documents of the city of Erfurt in the city archive of Erfurt
  3. ↑ On the history of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons, 125th conference, 12. – 14. June 1980 , p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Schwarz, Egbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarz, Egbert Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and founding rector of the Medical Academy in Erfurt
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Kemmern near Riga
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1966
Place of death Erfurt