Eugen Gaessler

Eugen Otto Gaessler (born December 21, 1897 in Hochdorf an der Enz , † February 18, 1984 in Konstanz ) was a German physician. From 1929 he was head of the public obstetrics and gynecological polyclinic in Dresden and from 1932 professor.

Life

Gaessler ended in 1916 with the acquisition of school-leaving certificate , the grammar school in Stuttgart and performed between August 1916 and January 1919 military service in Württemberg Foot Artillery Regiment. 13, . He then began studying medicine in February 1919 , which he completed at the universities in Munich and Tübingen . Since the summer semester of 1919 he was a member of the AV Igel Tübingen student association . After its autumn 1922 approval had received his doctorate Gaessler 1923 in Tübingen with a dissertationOn the symptomathology and pathogenesis of Addison's disease .

As a result, he worked at the State Women's Clinic in Dresden and in 1929 became head of the Obstetrics and Gynecological Polyclinic in Dresden. In 1932 he was appointed professor . After moving to Stuttgart, Eugen Gaessler was self-employed from 1935 and from 1937 chief physician at the women's clinic at the Wilhelm Hospital in Stuttgart .

In 1939 he was a medical officer of the reserve for the army moved in and arrived during the Second World War in British captivity . Gaessler was denazified in 1949 .

literature

• Marina Lienert: Gaessler, Eugen Otto . In: Caris-Petra Heidel and Marina Lienert (eds.): The professors of the Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus Dresden and its predecessor institutions 1814–2013 . Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-86780-376-2 , professors of the previous institutions, p. 33 .

Web links

• "Eugen Gäßler" , in: Project on the organizational and social history of the SS in East Saxony (1925–1950)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Univ. Tübingen, dissertation 1923 under the name "Eugen Gässler".
2. ↑ Hedgehog Directory 1871–1983. P. 65.