Ernst Seifert (doctor)

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Ernst Heinrich Eugen Seifert (born November 9, 1887 in Würzburg ; † August 29, 1969 there ) was a German surgeon , SA leader and university professor .

Life

Ernst Seifert was the son of the Würzburg rhino-laryngologist and co-author of a widespread reference work Otto Seifert . After the school-leaving examination he attended from 1907 to study medicine at the Universities of Erlangen , Würzburg and Kiel , which he in 1912 with the promotion of Dr. med. completed. During his studies he joined the Bubenruthia fraternity in Erlangen in 1907 . From 1912 he worked as an assistant at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Würzburg, briefly moved to Hamburg in 1913 and finally to London . Seifert, who returned to Würzburg in 1913, was employed by Eugen Enderlen at the Surgical University Clinic, which was then still in the Juliusspital , and was approved that same year . From 1913 to 1919 he belonged to the Progressive People's Party and in the meantime took part in the First World War. In Würzburg he completed his habilitation in surgery with Fritz König in 1919 and then worked there as a private lecturer or, from 1923, as a non-civil servant associate professor. From 1926 he was also employed as a senior physician at the surgical clinic of the Würzburg University Hospital (Luitpold Hospital) .

Seifert was a member of the Bavarian Armed Forces Association Reichsflagge from 1922 to 1931 . From 1931 to 1933 he was a member of the Stahlhelm . In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP and the SA , where he achieved the rank of Sanitätsobersturmbannführer, and he was also active in the National Socialist German Lecturer Association. As rector, Seifert coined the designation of the racial hygienist Ludwig Schmidt-Kehl as "Rassen-Schmidt".

From autumn 1934 Seifert took over the chair of the professor and privy councilor König, who had retired from university service or had been suspended, for about six months, until Max Kappis was appointed to the chair of surgery on March 1, 1935 . After the resignation of Würzburg Rector Johannes Reinmöller , Gauleiter Otto Hellmuth in particular pushed Seifert as his successor in the office of Rector for party political reasons. Since senior physician Seifert did not hold a full professorship for this position as usual and Kappis was the holder of the chair for surgery, "an extraordinary professorship for surgery was set up for him through the conversion of the unoccupied extraordinary professorship for mathematics". After Paul Branscheidt temporarily took over the rectorate in 1937, Seifert served as rector of the University of Würzburg from 1938 to 1945. In this context, the already existing competence disputes with the chair holder and clinic director Kappis intensified. After Kappis' sudden death, Seifert was given the chair of surgery in early June 1939 without the usual appointment procedure. He also became head of the surgical university clinic in the Würzburg Luitpold Hospital.

After the liberation from National Socialism , Seifert was suspended from university service by the American military administration in 1945 for political reasons. After a trial chamber process , he was denazified as a follower . During this trial, witnesses testified that he had received the rector's office not only for political reasons, but mainly because of his scientific and medical skills. A criminal case against him due to his participation in the November pogroms 1938 (especially when the synagogue buildings were destroyed) in Würzburg was discontinued in 1950 because he was not proven to be a "ringleader" during the riots. From 1950 until his death he was employed as a surgeon at the Red Cross Clinic in Würzburg. He retired in 1952 . Seifert was married to Gertrud Helene, a daughter of the hygienist Karl Bernhard Lehmann .

Fonts (selection)

  • Critical study on the doctrine of the connection between the nose and genital organs , medical dissertation at the University of Würzburg 1912
  • On the function of the large network: an experimental study; at the same time a contribution to the knowledge of the fate of fine-grained substances in the peritoneal cavity , Laupp, Tübingen 1920, In: Bruns' contributions to clinical surgery. Vol. 119 (also habilitation thesis at the University of Würzburg 1919)
  • Blood transfusion , Kabitzsch, Leipzig / Würzburg 1919 (belongs to: Würzburg treatises from the entire field of practical medicine; Vol. 18, 3/4)
  • Surgery of the head and neck for dentists , JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1922 (Lehmann's medical textbooks; Vol. 2; second edition published as a textbook on surgery of the head and neck for dentists in 1931)
  • On painful shoulder stiffening (humeroscapular periarthritis) , C. Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1930, (Würzburg treatises from the entire field of medicine; NF Vol. 6, H. 8 = the whole series, Vol. 26, H. 8)
  • Essence, detection and treatment of cancer , Enke, Stuttgart 1937 (belongs to: New German surgery, vol. 57) together with Fritz König
  • Head injuries , JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich / Berlin 1938, (belongs to: pocket books of the troop doctor; vol. 2) together with Wilhelm Tönnis and Traugott Riechert
  • Inauguration of the Institute for Racial Biology. May 3, 1939. In: Würzburg University Speeches 1938–1940. P. 20.
  • Guide to local anesthesia , Lehmann, Munich 1955
  • The change in the human experience of pain: attempt e. Bridging the gap by the surgeon. Everyday life of today back to the past Ancestors , Lehmann, Munich 1960

literature

  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 159-160.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 9: Schlumberger – Thiersch. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. KG Saur Verlag , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-25039-2 , p. 382 (short biography of Seifert, Ernst ).
  • Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945 . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Supplement 3); also dissertation Würzburg 1995, pp. 37–40, 43–45, 51 and more often.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Würzburg 1995, p. 37 f.
  2. ↑ a b German Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Schlumberger – Thiersch , Munich 2008, p. 382
  3. ↑ a b Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 159-160.
  4. ↑ Arthur Hübner (Ed.): Surgeons Directory , Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1958, p. 778
  5. ↑ Ute Felbor: The Institute for Hereditary Science and Race Research at the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 11, 1993, pp. 155-173, here: pp. 158 f. and 162.
  6. ↑ a b c Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945 , Würzburg 1995, p. 39
  7. ↑ University of Würzburg (ed.): The robbed dignity. The revocation of the doctoral degree at the University of Würzburg 1933–1945. (= Contributions to Würzburg University History, 1), Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8260-4569-1 , p. 34
  8. ↑ a b Kathrin Wittmann, Gereon Schäfer, Dominik Groß: The interweaving of Nazi ideology, university administration and science using the example of the Würzburg professor Max Kappis (1881-1938). In: Dominik Groß, Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann, Gereon Schäfer (Eds.): The Construction of Science ?: Contributions to the history of medicine, literature and science (= studies of the Aachen Competence Center for the History of Science), university press, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978 -3-89958-418-9 , pp. 254f.
  9. ^ Roland Flade: The Würzburg Jews from 1919 to the present. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 529-545 and 1308, here: pp. 537-539.
  10. ^ Proceedings against Professor Seifert discontinued. In: Main-Post. January 14, 1950.
  11. ^ Robert Emmerich: The rector at the November pogrom . In: einBLICK. (November 6, 2018).
  12. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 577
  13. ↑ Heinz Seeliger :  Lehmann, Karl Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 71 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Seifert, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seifert, Ernst Heinrich Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH 29th August 1969
Place of death Wurzburg