Erich Rix

Erich Rix (born September 29, 1900 in Warburg , † August 10, 1964 in Nuremberg ) was a German pathologist and university professor.

The son of a senior postal secretary attended elementary school and grammar school Marianum in Warburg from 1907 to 1919 . He studied medicine in Heidelberg, Göttingen, Freiburg i. Br. And Marburg until the state examination in 1925. The license to practice medicine and the doctorate followed in 1926 in Marburg (Lahn) .

At the University of Marburg , he became a private lecturer in general pathology and pathological anatomy in 1932 and ao in 1938. Professor and 1940 adjunct professor.

In 1942 he was appointed to the University of Berlin in connection with his military service (1939–1945) . In 1940 he headed the pathological-anatomical department of the Tropical Medicine Institute of the Military Medical Academy in Berlin; In 1942 he became the director of the Pathological Institute at the Robert Koch Hospital in Berlin-Moabit.

In 1944 he became head of the Pathological Institute of the Municipal Hospitals in Nuremberg . He was dismissed from this position in 1946, but reinstated in February 1947. In 1955 he was appointed professor and director of the Nuremberg Municipal Hospital at the University of Erlangen .

Rix had been a member of the NSDAP since 1937 , also in the NS teachers' association , NS doctors association and NS motor corps . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

Fonts

• On the eosinophilia of the vermiform process and its relationship to oxyurlasis , 1926 (= dissertation)

literature

• Renate Wittern: The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743 - 1960, published on behalf of the rector, part 2: Medical faculty . Erlangen 1999, p. 153
• Gerhard Aumüller , Kornelia Grundmann, Esther Krähwinkel: The Marburg Medical Faculty in the “Third Reich”. Saur Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-598-24570-X . (Academia Marburgensis, Volume 8)
• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 .
• 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 . P. 501
• Anne Christine Nagel : The Philipps University of Marburg under National Socialism: Documents on its history . Stuttgart 2000.