Ernst Fromm (doctor)

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Ernst Fromm (born March 3, 1917 in Altona , Schleswig-Holstein province , † April 2, 1992 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor. From 1959 to 1973 he was President of the German Medical Association and from 1965 to 1967 President of the European Medical Association (CPME).

Life

After graduating from high school, Fromm studied medicine at the University of Hamburg and the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In 1933 he joined the Marine SA , a year later he switched to the SS . From 1939 he did his military service, in 1942 he received his license to practice medicine and obtained his doctorate as Dr. med. in Hamburg until the end of the war he was senior physician in the reserve. Due to dysentery and diphtheria , he could not work as a ward doctor , so he became a bacteriologist and laboratory doctor. Since 1966 he was an honorary professor for contemporary problems of the medical profession at the University of Hamburg.

Fromm was a co-founder of the Marburger Bund and from 1949 chief physician of the bacteriological-serological department of the newly founded General Hospital Harburg . From 1959 to 1973 he was President of the German Medical Association . He became a member of the Military Medical Advisory Board of the Bundeswehr . Fromm's actions during the time of National Socialism caused controversy when asked about the German medical profession to excuse the medical experiments in concentration camps .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Died: Ernst Fromm . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1992 ( online ).
  2. ↑ History "CPME. Retrieved November 13, 2018 (American English).
  3. ↑ a b c Ernst Fromm , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 10/1982, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on October 25, 2011 ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
  4. ↑ a b Ernst Fromm . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1963 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Nazi crimes: We ask for forgiveness . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1996 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Doctors under Hitler: Mission betrayed . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1988 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Winner of the Paracelsus Medal ( Memento of the original dated July 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 25, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesaerztekammer.de
predecessor Office successor
Hans Neuffer President, German Medical Association
1959–1973 		Hans Joachim Sewering
personal data
SURNAME Pious, Serious
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, chairman of the German Medical Association
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona , Schleswig-Holstein Province
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1992
Place of death Hamburg