Eugen Wannenmacher

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Eugen Viktor Wannenmacher (born November 22, 1897 in Aufen ; † April 17, 1974 in Münster in Westphalia ) was a German dentist and university professor .

Life

Wannenmacher was the son of a teacher. He completed a medical degree at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and was awarded a Dr. med. and Dr. med. dent. PhD . He completed his habilitation in 1925 at the University of Tübingen for dentistry, where he then worked as a private lecturer and from 1929 as an associate professor at the Dental Institute. In 1934 he moved to the Dental Institute of the University of Berlin as an associate professor. In 1936, Lem'i Belger, the assistant to the dentist Alfred Kantorowicz who had emigrated to Turkey and who later became professor of prosthetics in Istanbul, was a guest assistant at Wannenmacher.

Wannenmacher joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3.253.744) at the beginning of the Nazi era in 1933 . He also joined the Schutzstaffel (SS No. 460.838), where he rose to SS-Sturmbannführer in mid-September 1943 . He was assigned to the office of the Reichsarzt SS . In 1944, Wannenmacher was a member of the advisory board of the authorized representative for health care Karl Brandt . He was editor of the specialist magazines "German Dental, Oral and Kieferheilkunde" and "Deutsche Zahnärztliche Wochenschrift".

From 1955 to 1966 he worked at the University of Münster as a full professor for dentistry, oral medicine and maxillofacial medicine as well as director of the university clinic for dental, oral and maxillary diseases. In 1971 he was made an honorary member of the German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine. His main research interests were the (patho) histology of the dentition, the biology of the chewing organ as well as periodontal and caries prophylaxis and appropriate treatment. He published numerous papers in the field of dentistry.

Since 1937 he was married to Anne, nee Schröder. The couple had a son.

Fonts (selection)

  • Questions and tasks of caries prophylaxis , Meusser, Leipzig 1937
  • A cross-section of German scientific dentistry: Festschrift, Hermann Euler for his 60th birthday on May 13, 1938 , Meusser, Leipzig 1938 (ed.)
  • Pulp and root canal treatment, its indication and limits , JF Lehrmanns Verl., Berlin / Munich 1938
  • Dentogenic focal infection and dental practice , JF Lehrmanns Verl., Berlin / Munich 1941

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Who is who? : The German Who's Who , Volume 16, 1970, p. 1395
  2. ↑ Ali Vicdani Doyum: Alfred Kantorowicz with special reference to his work in İstanbul (A contribution to the history of modern dentistry). Medical dissertation, Würzburg 1985, pp. 227-229 and 253 f.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 655.
  4. ^ A b Gisela Tascher: "Leadership School of the German Medical Association" in Alt Rehse. A deceptive idyll . In: ZM, issue 05/2011
  5. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 10: Thies - Zymalkowski , Berlin a. a. 2008, p. 409
personal data
SURNAME Wannenmacher, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wannenmacher, Eugen Viktor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dentist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Aufen
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1974
Place of death Munster in Westphalia