Ernst Wilhelm Baader

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Ernst Wilhelm Baader (born May 14, 1892 in Berlin ; † November 1, 1962 in Hamm ) was a German doctor and occupational physician (social hygienist or industrial hygienist) as well as forensic medicine.

Baader studied medicine and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1918 on the arsenic therapy of syphilis up to the Salvarsan era . He was appointed professor in 1934.

Baader founded the first German occupational medicine clinic in Berlin (clinical department for industrial diseases in the Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria-Krankenhaus in Berlin-Lichtenberg) and headed it from 1925 to 1945. He made fundamental contributions to the development of occupational medicine in Germany.

Baader joined the NSDAP between 1933 and 1936 . From 1933 he was the successor to a Jewish colleague who had been removed from office as medical director at the Berlin-Neukölln Municipal Hospital .

After the Second World War , from 1945 to 1955 he was head of the Knappschaftskrankenhaus in Hamm, which he founded . In addition, he became honorary professor at the University of Münster in 1951 . He was chairman of the German Society for Rheumatology .

The German Society for Occupational Medicine and Environmental Medicine awards the E. W. Baader Prize named after him .

literature

  • Gine Elsner: The dark side of a doctor's career. Ernst Wilhelm Baader (1892-1962): industrial hygienist and forensic doctor. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89965-466-0 .
  • Philipp Rauh, Karl-Heinz Leven : Ernst Wilhelm Baader (1892-1962) and occupational medicine during National Socialism . Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2013 ISBN 978-3-631-64327-3

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 22.
  2. ^ Review by Wolfgang Hien