Ernst Georg Nauck

Ernst Georg Nauck (born March 6, 1897 in Saint Petersburg , † October 18, 1967 in Benidorm ) was a German tropical medicine specialist and university professor.

Life

Nauck grew up in St. Petersburg, where he attended a humanistic grammar school , but fled to Germany before the start of the First World War . From 1914 he studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig and Greifswald , where he received his doctorate in 1921 . Since 1923 Nauck worked at the Hamburg Tropical Institute , where he spent a large part of his professional life. His work at the Hamburg Institute was repeatedly interrupted by lengthy stays abroad. a. in China (1924–1927), Costa Rica (1927–1929) and Transcaucasia (1931). 1933 habilitation Nauck for the specialist tropical medicine at the University of Hamburg , where he was appointed as non-tenured associate professor 1,934th In 1939 he was appointed adjunct professor.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he signed the declaration of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler in November 1933 . Nauck was a member of the SA from 1934 to 1939 and joined the NSDAP in 1937 . He was also a member of the Nazi teachers' association and the Nazi lecturers association.

During the Second World War , as part of the German occupation policy from 1940, he temporarily took over the provisional management of the State Institute for Hygiene in Warsaw . In the context of this activity he justified the forced ghettoization of the Polish Jews with epidemic hygiene arguments . In 1942/43 Nauck worked as a consultant hygienist for the Navy Sanitary Inspection in Ukraine , the Crimea and the Caucasus . In October 1943, after the death of Peter Mühlens , Nauck was appointed acting director of the Hamburg Tropical Institute, and in 1944 he also took over the full professorship for tropical medicine at the University of Hamburg.

After he had been classified as "exonerated" in October 1947 as part of the denazification , Nauck was finally appointed head of the Hamburg Tropical Institute and full professor of tropical medicine at Hamburg University in December 1947. In 1953/54 he was dean of the Hamburg Medical Faculty. In 1958/58 he was elected rector of Hamburg University.

Honors

• 1956: Commander's Cross of the Order “Star of Africa” (Liberia).
• 1957: Dr. med. vet. hc from the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover .
• 1957: Professor hc at the University of Lima .
• 1959: Dr. hc from the University of Dakar .
• 1960: Knight of the Legion of Honor in France.
• 1962: Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
• 1963: Medal for Art and Science of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

Works

• Textbook of Tropical Diseases , Stuttgart 1956 (3rd revised edition, Stuttgart 1967).

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Verlag KG Saur, Munich 1998, vol. 7, p. 346 f.
• Stefan Wulf:  Nauck, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 759 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Stefan Wulf: Nauck, Ernst Georg . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 272-273 .
• Hendrik van den Bussche (ed.): Medical science in the "Third Reich". Continuity, adaptation and opposition at the Hamburg Medical Faculty. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1989, pp. 92, 423.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 428.
2. ^ Stefan Wulf: "Nauck, Ernst", in: Neue Deutsche Biographie, Berlin 1997, vol. 18, p. 760.