Ferdinand Bertram

Ferdinand Johannes Eduard Bertram (born January 3, 1894 in Hamburg ; † October 28, 1960 there ) was a German physician , hospital doctor and private lecturer .

Live and act

Ferdinand Bertram was the son of Martin Theodor Ferdinand Bertram, his grandfather was Johannes Carl Ferdinand Bertram. Both were seminar and music teachers and long-established in Hamburg. His father wrote Mein Hamburg from 1921 to 1923 . Local history walks and chats , depicting Hamburg sights and curiosities and popular with Hamburg teachers. Ferdinand Bertram attended a seminar school from 1900 to 1904 and then switched to an upper secondary school on the Uhlenhorst . After graduating from high school in autumn 1912, he began studying natural sciences at the University of Marburg in the winter semester of 1912/13 . During the First World War he did military service in the Hamburg infantry regiment from 1914 to 1918 , where he was lightly wounded twice.

In February 1919, Bertram began studying medicine at the then newly founded University of Hamburg . After the Physikum , which he took in December of the same year, he completed the medical state examination in December 1921. He then went to the St. Georg General Hospital , where he worked as a medical intern until the end of July 1922. Then he moved to the Pharmacological Institute at Hamburg University, where he worked as an assistant from July 1, 1922 to December 31, 1923. On January 24, 1923, he received a doctorate there. In his dissertation he dealt with inhalation anesthesia and blood sugar . Until February 28, 1925, Bertram worked as an assistant doctor in the first medical department of the St. Georg Hospital. Here he first worked for three months on a ward for men with tuberculosis , then on a ward for men with internal diseases.

Bertram switched to industry and worked from March 1, 1923 to June 30, for the chemical factory C. H. Bohringer & Sohn , which was based in Hamburg. He took a position as scientific director of the specialties department. He then worked as an assistant doctor at the Barmbek Hospital . On February 15, 1932 he was appointed senior physician there. A short time later he received a license to teach from Hamburg University. In the field of internal medicine he lectured on metabolic diseases. At the same time worked as a specialist in internal diseases.

During the Weimar Republic , Bertram also dealt with questions of party and class politics. He joined the local branch of the Hartmannbund and the German National People's Party before 1933. After the seizure of power in 1934 he became a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare and the National Socialist Teachers' Association , in which he had been a steward of the Barmbek Hospital since October 1936. In 1937 Bertram joined the NSDAP and in the same year became a member of the National Socialist Altherrenbund . Since 1939 he was also a member of the NS-Reichskriegerbund . As a shop steward for the teachers' association, Bertram trained nursing staff and technical assistants as part of the German Labor Front .

Since Bertram was not aware of any speeches or publications on political issues, the British military government did not refuse him any public service after the end of World War II . On September 3, 1945, he therefore temporarily took over the post of Medical Director at the Barmbek Hospital. From 1947 to 1953 he worked as chief physician in the general hospital in Langenhorn and last year temporarily took over the medical management of the facility. On April 1st he went back to the hospital in Barmbek, where he stayed until 1959.

Ferdinand Bertram died on October 28, 1960 in his native city.

Services

Ferdinand Bertram was particularly concerned with diabetics . Towards the end of the Weimar Republic, he adopted methods from a new teaching in the treatment of the disease, which recommended a diet high in carbohydrates and low in fat. Thanks to Bertram, the General Hospital Barmbek developed into a clinic with modern diabetes treatment. In 1941, the doctor wrote the ABC for diabetics , which contained ten rules of life for patients. The work was published in its tenth edition in 1959.

literature

• Christine Pieper: Bertram, Ferdinand . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 49-50 .