Franz Palme (physician)

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Franz Palme (born June 23, 1907 in Rumburg , † March 23, 1960 in Leipzig ) was a German aeronautical doctor and university professor.

Life

Palme, son of a teacher, finished his school career in 1926 with the Abitur in Rumburg. Then Palme completed a degree in medicine at the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague and received his doctorate in 1932. med. Palme then worked at the 2nd Medical Clinic in Prague and was a scholarship holder of the WG Kerckhoff Institute for Circulatory Research in Bad Nauheim in 1935/36 , where he continued his research until 1939 after the scholarship ended. Palme had to interrupt this activity in the meantime for military service in the Czechoslovak army.

From 1939 Palme was employed at the Defense Physiological Institute in Berlin and one year later moved to the Aviation Medical Research Institute of the Reich Aviation Ministry . Palme took part in the conference on “Medical Questions in Distress at Sea and Winter Death” on October 26th and 27th, 1942 in Nuremberg , where a lecture was also given about the “attempts at hypothermia” in the Dachau concentration camp . Palme researched altitude sickness and "examined the effects of different oxygen supplies on human brain waves". Palme completed his habilitation in 1943 with the work on the function of branchiogenic reflex zones for chemo and press reception for physiology and aviation medicine at the University of Berlin . From 1944 he was a lecturer at the Berlin University. Palem was a member of the NSV and the DAF .

After the end of the Second World War , Palme was interned in the United States and questioned. He then worked briefly again at the WG Kerckhoff Institute for Circulatory Research. From 1947 Palme taught experimental pathology at the University of Halle , where he was appointed full professor in 1951. Palme died in a Leipzig hospital after a long illness.

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  1. a b c d Entry on Franz Palme in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 448
  3. see entry at the DNB