Erich Schröder (doctor)

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Erich Schröder (born May 2, 1893 in Oberhausen , † November 13, 1968 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German doctor and university professor .

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After attending school, Schröder studied medicine in Tübingen and Göttingen . During his studies in Göttingen he became a member of the Göttingen Wingolf student association . He took part in the First World War as a field medical officer. In 1919 he received his license to practice medicine and was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . Initially city and welfare doctor in Essen , he was from 1924 City Medical Council in Oberhausen. In 1935 he became the editor of the journal The Public Health Service , the official organ of the Nazi health administration. In 1938 he completed his habilitation and became a lecturer at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . In 1942 Schröder, who had been a member of the NSDAP since 1940 , became the chief city medical director of the city of Berlin . In addition, from 1943 he was a lecturer at the University of Berlin.

After the end of the war, from 1945 he was chief physician at the Elisabeth-Diakonissen Hospital and medical officer in Berlin-Tiergarten . From 1948 he was professor for social hygiene and microbiology at the University of Göttingen and in 1953 he became professor for social hygiene and public health at the Free University of Berlin . Furthermore, he was appointed Senate Director for the Berlin-West health system. So he took over the position he had already held from 1942 to 1945 and replaced Paul Piechowski , a religious socialist , former pastor and doctor. He retired in 1959.

In addition, from 1956 he was President of the German Central Committee to Combat Tuberculosis and in 1961 became an honorary member of the German Tuberculosis Society. He was a member of the Federal Health Council and was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1960 .

Fonts

  • About the possibility of tuberculous infection of the bronchial glands from the airways without causing tubercular changes in the lungs , 1919. (Dissertation)

literature

  • Paula Diehl: Body in National Socialism. Pictures and practices , 2006.
  • Schröder, Erich, Dr. med. In: Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health System" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , Part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, ISSN 0172 -2131, pp. 494-496.

Web links

  • Erich Schroeder . In: Udo Schagen , Sabine Schleiermacher: 100 years of history of social hygiene, social medicine and public health in Germany. Documentation by the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP) , CD-Rom, Berlin 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau , Vol. 22, 1969, p. 44.
  2. ^ List of members of the Göttingen Wingolf. Born in 1911. p. 87.
  3. ↑ Wolfram Fischer (Ed.): Exodus of Sciences from Berlin. Questions - Results - Desiderata. Developments before and after 1933. Walter de Gruyter, 1994, p. 89.
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1968
Place of death bad Godesberg