Friedrich Wilhelm Krzywanek

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Friedrich Karl Wilhelm Krzywanek (born May 10, 1896 in Neisse , † February 1946 ) was a German veterinary physiologist .

Life

Born as the son of the judicial inspector Carl Krzywanek and Bertha, née Knappe, Friedrich Wilhelm Krzywanek attended the secondary school in Lüben , where he passed the emergency school leaving examination in August 1914 . In the winter semester of 1914/15 he enrolled at the philosophical faculty of the University of Breslau , but had to interrupt his studies because of the First World War , in which he participated as a volunteer on the western front. Towards the end of the war he went to study veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Dresden . In 1918 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Dresden, the later Corps or Landsmannschaft Saxo-Borussia Leipzig. After completing his studies in June 1921 and graduating as Dr. med. vet. a month later he became assistant to Carl Arthur Scheunert at the Animal Physiological Institute of the Agricultural University in Berlin . When Scheunert was appointed to the University of Leipzig , he moved to the Veterinary Physiological Institute there as his assistant. In 1926 he completed his habilitation in Leipzig in the subject of veterinary physiology and received the Venia legendi. In 1929 he was appointed extraordinary professor and received a teaching position for applied physiology at the veterinary medicine faculty in Leipzig the following year. On April 1, 1933, he accepted a call to full professor for veterinary physiology and director of the veterinary physiological institute of the veterinary college in Berlin , which was incorporated into the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in 1934 . At the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted as a staff veterinarian, but after only three months he was provisionally released. On December 2, 1941, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. In the summer of 1944 he went to Bad Saarow to cure a chronic knee disease . He was taken prisoner by the Soviets and died in February 1946.

Krzywanek researched the blood sugar of ruminants , the pancreatic secretion of small ruminants and the nutrition of poultry . Furthermore, he was committed to the expansion of animal psychological research.

Fonts

  • Comparative studies on the immunizing effects of Antektrol, Abortin, etc. on cattle vaccinated against the infectious abortion with them , 1921
  • Comparative Studies on the Mechanics of Digestion , 1926
  • The importance of vitamins in fur farming , 1929
  • Food in rural households , 1932 (with Arthur Scheunert)
  • Textbook of Veterinary Physiology , 1939, 2nd revised edition 1944 (with Arthur Scheunert and Alfred Trautmann )

literature

  • Ines Schulze: The Berlin Veterinary Training Center between 1933 and 1945 , 2007 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From the annual reports of the secondary school in Lüben between 1909 and 1928
  2. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 422.
  3. ↑ Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 2588
personal data
SURNAME Krzywanek, Friedrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krzywanek, Friedrich Karl Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinary physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Neisse
DATE OF DEATH February 1946