Erich Schütz (doctor)

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Erich Schütz (born September 6, 1902 in Wesel ; † April 13, 1988 in Münster ) was a German physiologist and university professor who was a pioneer in the field of electrophysiology .

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After graduating from high school at the humanistic grammar school in Elberfeld (today Wilhelm Dörpfeld grammar school ), Schütz completed a medical degree at the universities of Tübingen , Bonn , Vienna and Kiel , where he was awarded a doctorate in 1926. med. received his doctorate . He then worked as an assistant at the Universities of Tübingen and Berlin and qualified as a professor for physiology in Berlin in 1930. At the University of Berlin he initially worked as a private lecturer and from 1935 as an associate professor at the Physiological Institute headed by Wilhelm Trendelenburg . From 1931 to 1936 he was a lecturer at the German University for Physical Education . In October 1937 he was appointed to the chair of physiology at the University of Münster , where he was also director of the Physiological Institute.

During the Second World War he also worked at the Aviation Medical Research Institute in Berlin of the Reich Aviation Minister Hermann Göring . Schütz, who had previously researched the effects of green and yellow crosses for the Wehrmacht , carried out "investigations into electrocardiogram changes in the presence of a lack of oxygen". On 26./27. In October 1942 Schütz took part in the conference “Medical Questions in Distress at Sea and Winter Distress” in Nuremberg . a. a lecture was given about the "attempts at hypothermia" on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp . In 1944 at the Münster University Neurological Clinic, he examined human beings “EKG changes when air was blown into the cerebral ventricle (encephalography) in comparison to altitude in a vacuum chamber”. In the same year he was promoted to senior staff doctor and headed the chief department of the aeronautical medical research institute.

After the end of the war, Schütz remained at the chair in Münster and retired there in 1970 . He had been married to the physician Ursula Weber since 1947, and the couple had two children. The main research areas were a. Cardiology and electrophysiology. Schütz was chairman of the German Society for Physiology from 1940 to 1946 . He was also an honorary member of the German Society for Cardiovascular Research . He became a Dr.-Ing. honorary appointed.

Fonts (selection)

  • Racial biological and physical-chemical studies on group-specific isohaemagglutination , dissertation at the University of Kiel 1926
  • About the origin of heart sounds , habilitation thesis, Berlin 1930
  • Physiology of the Heart , Springer, Berlin; Göttingen; Heidelberg 1958
  • Physiology: textbook for students / Erich Schütz; Heinz Caspers ; Erwin-Josef Speckmann , Urban and Schwarzenberg, Munich; Vienna; Baltimore 1982 (16th revised edition)
  • Structure and functions of the human body: Human anatomy and physiology for students of all faculties and for medical assistant professions / Schütz, Erich; Rothschuh, Karl Eduard, Urban and Schwarzenberg, Munich; Vienna; Baltimore 1982 (17th revised edition)

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  1. ↑ a b c Who is who? The German who's who. 21st edition, Lübeck 1981, p. 1056
  2. ↑ a b c DBE: Volume 9, Schlumberger – Thiersch. , Munich 2008, p. 258
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-039310-4 , p. 188.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 564
  5. ↑ Development tape for microfiche edition: With an introduction by Angelika Ebbinghaus on the history of the process and short biographies of the process involved . P. 146. Karsten Linne (Ed.): The Nuremberg Medical Process 1946/47. Verbal transcripts, prosecution and defense material, sources on the environment. Published by Klaus Dörner , German edition, microfiche edition, Munich 1999 on behalf of the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century
personal data
SURNAME Schütz, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1988
Place of death Muenster