Erich Opitz (physiologist)

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Erich Opitz

1953

Obituary from Professor Dr. Ulrich C. Luft
Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology , Springer Verlag Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg , Vol. 48, page 12

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Erich Opitz (born August 15, 1909 in Düsseldorf , † August 11, 1953 under the Reichenspitze , Zillertal Alps ) was a German physiologist.

Life

As the son of the gynecologist Erich Opitz , Opitz attended the humanistic high school in Freiburg im Breisgau . After graduating from high school, he studied natural sciences from 1927 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University . There he switched to medicine. In the winter semester of 1927/28 he was active in the Corps Borussia Breslau . Early 1930 inactivated , he turned to the Physikum for another active semester available. For the winter semester 1930/31 he moved to the Albertus University in Königsberg . In the summer of 1932 he toured Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey, southern Russia and the Caucasus. He took the state examination in 1933 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. There he was an intern with Siegfried Thannhauser . He followed the pathologist Franz Büchner to the Berlin hospital Am Friedrichshain . With a doctoral thesis at Büchner, he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. After staying with Helmuth Bohnenkamp and Helmuth Reinwein in 1934, he dedicated himself to physiology . As a scholarship holder of the William G. Kerckhoff Foundation , he worked for Eberhard Koch . He then worked as a research assistant to Hermann Rein in Göttingen for two years . At that time he took part in a high-altitude research trip in the Italian southern Alps .

From 1938 to 1945 he worked as a junior physician with Hubertus Strughold at the Aeronautical Medical Research Institute in the Department of Histophysiology. In this position he researched with Erich Schütz about oxygen deficiency symptoms of the heart. In 1941 he completed his habilitation with Rein in Göttingen. In 1942 he received a lectureship at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1943/44 he represented the physiological chair at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . He traveled repeatedly to the Alps for altitude physiological examinations: Jungfraujoch (1939), Oberwalderhütte (1914) and Großglockner (1944). At the end of the war he returned to Göttingen.

After the end of the war, he followed the call of Christian Albrechts University in 1946 , which had been destroyed by the air raids on Kiel . Borussia's Cartel Corps Holsatia awarded him the ribbon in 1951. After seven difficult years of reconstruction, he followed his teacher and friend Rein to the Göttingen chair in April 1953. After the summer semester he traveled to the Alps, where he had a fatal accident with two rope teams on the descent from the Reichenspitze.

In his obituary for Opitz, Ulrich Cameron Luft names a total of 66 publications for the years 1935–1953, including one posthumous.

He left behind his wife and four children. In his fate he followed his father, who died in an accident in 1926, his sister, who was buried by an avalanche while skiing, his sister who died young, and his brother Ekkehard, who died in France.

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  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 78/812; 75/576.
  2. ↑ a b Barchewitz IV: Erich Opitz II . Corps newspaper of Borussia Breslau, No. 47, p. 50 ff.
  3. ↑ a b c U. C. Luft (1955)
  4. ↑ Dissertation: Heart muscle changes due to disturbances in the oxygen supply .
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 444
  6. ^ Habilitation thesis: On acute hypoxia .
  7. ^ Ulrich C. Luft: Erich Opitz † . In: Results of Physiology, Biological Chemistry and Experimental Pharmacology 48 (1955), pp. 13-22. GoogleBooks
personal data
SURNAME Opitz, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Opitz, Erich Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1953
Place of death Reichenspitze , Zillertal Alps