Franz Hamburger (doctor)

Franz Hamburger as Heidelberger Rhenane, 1893/94

Franz Hamburger (born August 14, 1874 in Pitten ; † August 29, 1954 in Vöcklabruck ) was an Austrian physician and university professor.

Life

Hamburger was the son of the paper manufacturer Wilhelm Hamburger . He attended grammar school in Wiener Neustadt and passed the Matura in 1892 . He then completed a medical degree in Heidelberg , Munich and Graz. In Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Rhenania in 1892 . He passed the medical state examination in 1898 and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He then worked temporarily as a ship's doctor and then as an assistant doctor in Vienna and Graz. He completed his specialist training as a pediatrician with Theodor Escherich from 1900 . In 1906 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on native and foreign protein and became a private lecturer . From 1908 he was head of the children's department at the Vienna Polyclinic and in 1912 was appointed associate professor.

As an Austrian medical officer, Hamburger took part in the First World War in Serbia and Italy from 1914 to 1917 . In 1916 he became a full professor of paediatrics at the University of Graz , where he also headed the university children's clinic. After the death of Clemens von Pirquet , he received a call to the University of Vienna in 1930 , where he was also the director of the University Children's Hospital.

From 1931 he belonged to the Styrian Homeland Security and later joined the NSDAP and the NS-Ärztebund . After Austria was annexed to the National Socialist German Reich , he became President of the Scientific Senate of the Academy for Medical Training in Vienna. He was one of the co-editors of the Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift . In line with the Nazi health policy, he called for the sterilization of "feeble-minded" and diabetic children. Under him there was a collaboration with the sanatorium “Am Steinhof” . In 1944, Adolf Hitler awarded him the Goethe Medal for Art and Science . In 1944 he retired, but still took over the management of the children's department in the hospital in Vöcklabruck.

After the end of the Second World War , he was relieved of his functions on June 2, 1945 and retired in 1947.

Hamburger was the author of numerous specialist articles and books. He did research in all areas of paediatrics. His involvement in the introduction of BCG and subcutaneous smallpox vaccination as well as in the field of children's tuberculosis and diphtheria was outstanding .

Hamburger's guidebook “About dealing with children”, published in 1951, was cited as an example of the advocacy of physical and psychological violence in raising children after 1945.

Works

• Pediatric Textbook (1920)
• On dealing with children (1951)

literature

• Castell, R., Nedoschill, J., Rupps, M., Bussiek, D .: History of child and adolescent psychiatry in Germany from 1937 to 1961 , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, 584 pp., ISBN 3-525 -46174-7 , p. 514 (short biography), p. 279ff.
• Directory of the Heidelberg Rhenanen living on November 1, 1937 . o. O. [1937], p. 37f.
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Karl Heinz Tragl: Chronicle of the Vienna Hospitals , Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2007, p. 307.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Castell et al .: History of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Germany from 1937 to 1961 , Göttingen 2003, p. 514
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Karl Heinz Tragl: Chronicle of the Vienna Hospitals , Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2007, p. 307
3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 222
4. ↑ Günther Deegener. Risk and protection factors of the child and youth welfare system in prevention and intervention in child protection. Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich 2014. ISBN 978-3-89967-987-8 . P. 15f. ( Online excerpt )
5. ↑ Claudia Bundschuh: Sexual abuse, physical and psychological violence at the Collegium Josephinum, Bad Münstereifel . A scientific review with and for those affected. Ed .: Archdiocese of Cologne . Cologne July 2017, p. 51 f . ( pro-cj.de [PDF; 1.6 MB ; accessed on September 14, 2017] without naming Hamburgers). Sexual abuse, physical and psychological violence at the Collegium Josephinum, Bad Münstereifel ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.