Egon Schmitz-Cliever

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Egon Schmitz-Cliever (born June 17, 1913 in Aachen ; † September 28, 1975 there ) was a German doctor and medical historian .

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Schmitz-Cliever studied medicine at the University of Rostock until July 28, 1934 and received his doctorate in 1938 at the University of Göttingen . He then got a job as a radiologist at the Aachen City Hospital .

During the time of National Socialism he joined several NS organizations, including the NSDAP as early as 1933 , as well as the SA , the National Socialist Medical Association , the National Socialist People's Welfare and the National Socialist German Student Union . After the Second World War , he had to face a denazification process and was initially classified in level III B2 - less polluted. For this reason, the American military government planned not to leave Schmitz-Cliever in office. In a subsequent appeal, Schmitz-Cliever was finally able to convince the judges that he had only made his membership in the Nazi organizations for “existential reasons”, without, however, having made a big impact in the organizations. He was then allowed to continue working and he resumed his service at the hospitals that were transferred to the Aachen University Hospital in 1966.

Schmitz-Cliever later shifted his focus to research into the history of medicine, in particular that of Aachen and the Rhineland. In this field he was a long-time lecturer at RWTH Aachen University , which appointed him honorary professor on August 11, 1970 .

The art historian and long-time director of the Aachen Cathedral Treasury, Herta Lepie, is the daughter of Egon Schmitz-Cliever. He found his final resting place in the family crypt in the Aachen forest cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

  • The early signs of the Coxa vara adolescentium , Lechte Verlag, Emsdetten 1937
  • On the question of the epidemic dance sickness of the Middle Ages. In: Sudhoff's archive. Volume 37, 1953, pp. 149-161.
  • Medicine in Aachen from Roman times to the beginning of the 19th century , JA Mayer, Aachen 1963
  • The Bonn private lecturer Wenzel Krimer , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1966
  • Clemens August Alertz (1800–1866) , in: Rheinische Lebensbilder , Düsseldorf 1968
  • The establishment of the first asylum for women in maternity leave in Germany (1830). In: Sudhoff's archive. Volume 50, Issue 2, 1966, pp. 136-156.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Egon Schmitz-Cliever (1934 SS) @ Rostocker matriculation portal. De-registration certificate. In: matrikel.uni-rostock.de. Retrieved November 18, 2018 .
  2. ^ Richard Kühl: Leading Aachen clinicians and their role in the Third Reich . In: Dominik Groß (Ed.): Studies of the Aachen Competence Center for the History of Science . tape 11 . RWTH Aachen, Aachen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-014-0 , p. 51–52 ( uni-kassel.de [PDF; 7.6 MB ]).
  3. ↑ Institute portrait : University Hospital RWTH Aachen. In: ukaachen.de. Retrieved November 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmitz-Cliever, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1975
Place of death Aachen