Ernst Franke (doctor)

Ernst-August Franke (born July 17, 1875 in Hanover , † November 17, 1948 in Rostock ) was a German physician and professor of surgery .

Life

Ernst Franke was born the son of a businessman. He attended secondary school and then the lyceum in his hometown. After graduating from high school in 1896, he did the first part of his military service as a one-year volunteer in Göttingen and then began studying medicine there . There he became a member of the fraternity of Hannovera . He continued his studies in Heidelberg and Berlin . In 1901 he passed the medical state examination, received his license to practice medicine, worked as a volunteer assistant at the Charité and received his doctorate.

The career path is typical of a clinician at that time. First he worked as a ship's doctor for several months. Activities at the pathological institutes of the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin were both short-lived . In between he spent the rest of his military service in Göttingen and received the military rank of under doctor, later that of assistant doctor . After another brief employment at the Surgical University Clinic in Berlin, Franke became an assistant doctor in the surgical department of the city hospital in Altona in 1903 . In 1905 he took on a similar position at the Surgical University Clinic in Rostock . There he completed his habilitation in 1908 and was appointed private lecturer . From 1912 to 1919 he was a senior physician at the aforementioned clinic. In the spring of 1914 he was awarded the title of professor ( titular professor ). After the outbreak of war he was temporarily acting head of the clinic, and for a time he was the medical officer of the "Red Cross" hospital in Rostock. In 1918 he was recognized as a specialist in surgery. From 1919 to 1948 he was chief physician at the private clinic “St. Georg ”in Rostock, but maintained good contact with the University of Rostock. In 1921 he was appointed extraordinary professor. At the beginning of the Second World War, as a member of the Wehrmacht , he was the head of the hospital for surgery at the Rostock University Hospital.

When it came to finding a successor to the dismissed, Nazi-charged professor of surgery at the end of the war, the Rostock mayor and the vice-president of Mecklenburg, the well-known communist Gottfried Grünberg , suggested Ernst-August Franke. This is remarkable, since Franke represented national and conservative political beliefs. Until 1933 he was a member of the German National People's Party and the steel helmet on, but refused by resolution of both organizations by way of DC circuit , the NSDAP and the SA join. According to his own statement, he was tortured, persecuted and denounced by the NSDAP. The Lord Mayor of Rostock stated that Franke had been persecuted during the Nazi regime because of his anti-fascist sentiments. The candidacy was unsuccessful because the medical administration of the state of Mecklenburg in Schwerin rejected Franke with the argument "too old". In 1947 the Soviet military administration confirmed Franke as an extraordinary professor at the University of Rostock .

Publications

• Treatment and outcomes of 44 depression fractures on damage, from the Surgical University Clinic in Berlin (dissertation), Berlin 1901.
• On the bacteriology of acute and chronic appendicitis with special consideration of the peritoneal exudas (habilitation thesis), Leipzig 1908.

literature

• Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the fraternity Hannovera Göttingen 1848–1998. Self-published, Düsseldorf 1998.
• Michael Buddrus and Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. A biographical lexicon. KG Saur , Munich 2007, p. 130 f.

Web links

• Literature on Ernst August Franke in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Ernst-August Franke in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• List of people and courses at the University of Rostock in the winter semester 1947/48, entry Frankes on p. 9 (PDF document; 15.2 MB)