Egon Keining

Egon Keining (born November 23, 1892 in Soest ; † April 6, 1971 in Mainz ) was a German dermatologist and university professor .

Life

Keining studied human medicine in Marburg and Bonn until he received his doctorate in 1921. He trained as a dermatologist under Alfred Ruete in Marburg, then went to Georg Arndt in Berlin and in 1927 to Paul Mulzer at the Hamburg University Dermatology Clinic , where he learned about the “ atypical myxedema of the skin " habilitated . There he was appointed associate professor as senior physician in 1933 . On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP and in November 1933 signed the confession of the German professors to Adolf Hitler . He also belonged to the Nazi doctors 'association and the Nazi lecturers' association . In 1934, Keining became co-editor of the Dermatologische Wochenschrift . In 1939 he carried out research on the effects of poison gas on the skin. In 1940 he taught on a substitute basis at the University of Rostock for over a year and then returned to Hamburg. In 1944 he was appointed to the dermatological chair at the University of Greifswald as the successor to Wilhelm Richter , who had fallen in the war , and remained there until 1946. From 1944, Keining was still a member of the scientific advisory board of the authorized representative for health care Karl Brandt .

After the end of the Second World War , in 1946 he accepted the call to the newly established Chair of Dermatology at the University of Mainz , where he retired in 1961. In Rhineland-Palatinate, he was a member of the State Health Council.

His research areas were the Keining sign (efflorescence in dermatomyositis with yellowish-hyperkeratotic nail folds) and irritant body therapy.

Fonts

(with Otto Braun-Falco ): Dermatology and Venereology. A textbook for students and doctors , Munich 1961, etc.

literature

Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock In the Third Reich: A Biographical Handbook , Munich 2007, p. 222f
Albrecht Scholz: History of Dermatology in Germany , Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1999 ISBN 978-3-540-66064-4
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

Literature by and about Egon Keining in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Sigwald Bommer : The clinic and polyclinic for skin and sexually transmitted diseases. In: Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the University of Greifswald. Volume 1. Greifswald 1956, p. 435.

personal data
SURNAME	None, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German dermatologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 23, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Soest
DATE OF DEATH	April 6, 1971
Place of death	Mainz

[1] Sigwald Bommer : The clinic and polyclinic for skin and sexually transmitted diseases. In: Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the University of Greifswald. Volume 1. Greifswald 1956, p. 435.