Eugene Kommerell

Eugen Kommerell (born November 17, 1854 in Tübingen ; † February 13, 1936 in Bad Cannstatt ) was a German general practitioner, spa doctor and medical advisor

Life

After studying medicine in Tübingen, Kommerell received his doctorate in 1878 with a dissertation on consumption. Until 1881 he remained as an assistant at the University Polyclinic in Tübingen under Prof. Theodor (von) Jürgensen. From April 1881 he became an assistant at Heinrich Averbeck's sanatoriums for physical healing methods in Baden-Baden. It is noteworthy that he stated the year of birth 1852 when registering for admission in Baden-Baden. After these sanatoriums were relocated to Bad Laubbach near Koblenz am Rhein, Kommerell returned to Tübingen in 1883 to the university women's clinic as first assistant, and in October 1883 he moved to (Bad) Liebenzell as a spa doctor as well as a city and district doctor for the poor. He stayed there until 1886, succeeding Dr. Carl Essig, who moved to Neresheim as a senior physician. In 1886 Kommerell settled down as a general practitioner in Ellwangen and, after passing the state medical examination (1886), worked as a senior medical officer in Neresheim until 1891 and in the same position in Münsingen until 1903. From 1903 to 1913 he was employed as a senior medical officer in Waiblingen and since then has been responsible for the Waiblingen and Cannstatt districts as a fully paid doctor without his own practice. As early as 1905 he was appointed Medical Councilor.

Kommerell had seven children. The eldest son, Eugen Ernst (* 1885) also became a doctor and the youngest, Max (1903–1944) became professor for new German literary history, he was part of the circle around Stefan George .

Publications

• On phthisis and tuberculosis. A clinical study, Med.-Diss. Tübingen 1878, Leipzig: Hirschfeld 1878
• Medical information about drinking, generally understandable discussion of the alcohol question from a medical point of view, Hildesheim: Mäßigkeitsverlag 1899
• Alcoholism presented in a generally understandable way, Dresden: E. Deleiter 1926

literature

• Otto Kommerell: Kommerell family chronicle, family tree with 79 images and 15 tables. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1943, pp. 164–165
• Roland Deigendesch: Dr. med. Eugen Kommerell in Münsingen. In: Short stay, forays through literary places. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0142-9 , pp. 147-150
• Hubertus Averbeck: From cold water therapy to physical therapy. Reflections on people and at the time of the most important developments in the 19th century. EHV, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86741-782-2 , pp. 788-789