Ernst Unger (doctor, 1875)

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Ernst Unger (born April 2, 1875 in Berlin , † September 13, 1938 in Prenzlau ) was a German surgeon .

Life

Ernst Unger studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1898. From 1903 to 1906 he was a student of Ernst von Bergmann , then senior physician at the 1st Surgical University Clinic and in 1919 took over the 2nd surgical department at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital . In 1932 he set up the first central blood donation service in Germany. Unger was a professor of medicine and was ousted from his offices in April 1933 because of his Jewish origins. and in 1936 forced to sell his private clinic. In 1938 he had a fatal accident in a car accident on the autobahn and died in the Prenzlau district hospital.

Unger is considered a pioneer in organ transplantation. He did fundamental work on kidney transplantation. Between 1909 and 1910 he performed kidney transplants between dogs of different breeds. By 1910 Unger was able to report over one hundred transplants, none of which were ultimately successful in the long run. At the end of 1909 he tried to transplant the kidney of a stillborn child to a monkey; this attempt also failed. Unger attributed the failure of this attempt to purely technical problems. In 1910, he transplanted the two kidneys of a porcupine monkey from Borneo into the groin of a 21-year-old patient who had signs of kidney failure. The woman died of pulmonary edema on the second day after the procedure. Unger concluded that there is a biochemical barrier between animals and humans that makes such transplants impossible.

With Fritz Bleichröder , Unger carried out a series of experiments with catheters . The aim was to place medication precisely on the affected organs.

Private clinic

Memorial plaque Derfflingerstr 21 (Tierg) Ernst Unger

Ernst Unger had the architects Alfred Breslauer and Paul Salinger built a five-story private clinic in Berlin-Tiergarten in 1905 . The building bears the name Haus Unger and is currently a listed building.

Publications (selection)

  • The colostrum. Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin, 1898.
  • About kidney transplant . In: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift . Volume 46, 1909, pp. 1057-1060.
  • Kidney transplants . In: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift. Volume 47, 1910, pp. 573-578.
  • Comments on intra-arterial therapy. In: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift. Volume 49, 1912, p. 1504.
  • About the technique of organ transplants: (Exclusively genital organs). Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1930.

literature

  • Hartmut Collmann : Ernst Unger (1875–1938). In: Ulrike Eisenberg, Hartmut Collmann, Daniel Dubinski: betrayed - expelled - forgotten. The work and fate of German brain surgeons persecuted after 1933. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95565-142-8 , pp. 65–81.
  • Rolf Winau , Ekkehard Vaubel: Surgeons in Berlin. 100 portraits. Berlin 1983, p. 101.
  • Enno A. Winkler: Ernst Unger: (1875-1938): a biobibliography . International publishing company, Berlin 1975.
  • Enno A. Winkler: Ernst Unger: A Pioneer in Modern Surgery . In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 1982, pp. 269-286.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Academy of Natural Scientists, German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (ed.): Leopoldina, Yearbook 1994 . 1995, p. 507 ( Google Books ).
  2. ↑ Slatomir Joachim Wenske: The Development of Urological Clinics in Berlin - A Contribution to the History of Medicine in Berlin Dissertation, Clinic for Urology of the Medical Faculty Charité, Berlin 2008, p. 90. (PDF; 2.0 MB)
  3. ↑ Volker Klimpel: Doctors Death. Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, ISBN 9783826027697 , p. 151. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  4. ↑ Ernst Unger: Ueber Nierentransplantationen (1909). In: Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach, R. Winau and Rudolf Häring (eds.): First operations in Berlin surgeons 1817–1931. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1990, ISBN 3-11-011951-X , p. 216ff.
  5. ↑ Maypole (PDF; 2.3 MB)
  6. ↑ Untitled. In: mondry.de. Retrieved January 2, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Eugen Fröhner: Handbook of veterinary surgery and obstetrics .... W. Braumüller, 1923 limited preview in the Google book search
  8. ^ Urban development Berlin: House Unger
  9. ^ Studentenwerk: Haus Unger
personal data
SURNAME Unger, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1938
Place of death Prenzlau