Ernst Tiedemann

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Ernst Klaus Tiedemann (born October 6, 1919 in Erfurt ; † February 18, 2007 in Munich ) was a German doctor and development worker in Africa .

Life

Tiedemann was born in Erfurt in 1919 in what is now the Thuringian State Chancellery , where his father Fritz Tiedemann was regional president in the Prussian administrative district of Erfurt in the Prussian province of Saxony since 1815 . In Erfurt he completed his Abitur in 1937 at the Realgymnasium Zur Himmelspforte , where he also worked in the Arnold-Tiedemann-Circle initiated by his brother , which was in the resistance against National Socialism . After subsequent labor and military service , he went to Göttingen to study medicine at the Georg-August University , where he was active in the Holzminda fraternity in the summer semester of 1939 . He continued his studies, which were frequently interrupted by long assignments as a medical soldier and military doctor during World War II , in Jena and finally received his doctorate in 1944 . After his studies, between May and August 1945, he worked briefly as a doctor at the municipal hospital in Erfurt, which he had to abruptly break off in order to avoid the threat of arrest as a former military doctor and thus an officer of the Wehrmacht by the Soviet occupation authorities .

After his escape he worked in the medical service of Lower Saxony . In 1953, Tiedemann was the first German to cross all of Africa from Cape Town to Cairo in a VW Beetle . As a freelance consultant in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs, the trained tropical medicine specialist worked from 1960 to 1964 as an advisor to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health in Addis Ababa , establishing close contacts with the then Emperor Haile Selassie , whose personal doctor he became. In Ethiopia he contracted a severe and protracted tropical illness, because of which he was retired in 1964. But he was still active, among other things as a consultant to German companies in Africa and as a ship's doctor . Extensive travels took him to almost every corner of the world, which in the 1950s and 60s attracted a lot of attention to his lively lectures. In 1968 he moved from Hanover to Munich, where he worked as a company doctor at TÜV and supported Daytop , an addiction aid organization, for a long time as a doctor. Tiedemann died in Munich in 2007.

Fonts

  • About the treatment of retinal gliomas while preserving the eyeball, especially about radiation treatment. Dissertation, University of Göttingen, June 18, 1944.

literature

  • Steffen Raßloff : Fritz Tiedemann (1872-1930). A liberal and democrat in difficult times. In: City and History. Magazine for Erfurt. 2002, p. 26 f.
  • Steffen Raßloff: Resistance in Hitler Youth uniform. The Arnold Tiedemann Circle. In: City and History. Magazine for Erfurt. 2004, p. 14 f.
  • Obituary in: Hans-Hermann Rudolph (Ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity of Holzminda Göttingen. Aschaffenburg 2007, pp. 9-10.

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personal data
SURNAME Tiedemann, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tiedemann, Ernst Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2007
Place of death Munich