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Ewald Berge (born November 15, 1891 in Zittau , † July 27, 1974 in Giessen ) was a German veterinarian and university professor .

Life

Berge studied from 1911 to 1919 - interrupted by his participation in the First World War - veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine Dresden and the Justus Liebig University in Gießen . During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Dresden Landsmannschaft in 1911 . In 1919 he earned his doctorate as an assistant at the surgical clinic of the TÄH Dresden. med. vet. in connection with the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig, since the TÄH Dresden had a specially regulated right to award doctorates from 1907. After the TÄH Dresden was closed in 1923 and founded as a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Leipzig, Berge completed his habilitation here in 1925 with a thesis on X-ray diagnostics of dogs and in the same year became a private lecturer in veterinary surgery. In 1928 he was given a non-scheduled extraordinary professorship for veterinary surgery and in 1930 a full professorship for veterinary surgery and surgical studies at the University of Leipzig's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. During his time in Leipzig, Berge signed the German professors 'commitment to Adolf Hitler in November 1933, and in 1937 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party . This was one reason for his dismissal in the course of denazification in 1945.

After a few years as a practicing veterinarian in Upper Bavaria, Berge followed the call of the university in 1949, and from 1957 at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen to the chair of veterinary surgery, which he held until his retirement in 1960. Special fields were still ophthalmology and radiology. Berge was a founding member of the German Veterinary Society . In 1965 he founded the Ewald and Hilde Berge Foundation to promote young academics in the field of veterinary medicine at JLU Giessen.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 8.

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personal data
SURNAME Mountains, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1974
Place of death to water