Fritz Rott (social pediatrician)

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Fritz Rott (born April 15, 1878 in Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia , † April 17, 1959 in Baden-Baden ) was a German social pediatrician and university professor in Berlin.

Life

Rott passed the Abitur at the Michaeli Realgymnasium in Nuremberg in 1898 . He first studied mathematics and architecture , then medicine at the Friedrichs University in Halle . Since 1899 he was a member and later an honorary member of the Corps Teutonia Halle. In 1949 he also received the ribbon of the Halle successor corps Saxonia Frankfurt am Main. After the state examination in 1905 he worked in gynecology and in the Berlin children's asylum . Until 1911 he trained as an assistant doctor with Otto Heubner at the Charité children's clinic . He remained closely associated with the Berliner Krippenverein, a crèche house for the protection and care of babies and toddlers , throughout his life, temporarily as President. In 1911 Rott became senior physician with Leo Langstein in the Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria-Haus (KAVH). There he set up the Organization Office for Infant and Young Child Protection , which for the first time collected statistical data on the reasons for child mortality . At the same time he became the head of the infant station. Professor since 1919 , he became one of the directors of the KAVH in 1922. In the same year he was appointed to the Reich Health Council. Through the working group of Reich Social Hygiene Associations , which he co-founded in 1923 , the organization office of the KAVH came into contact with the Reich Health Office only late . As a student of the social hygienist Alfred Grotjahn , he completed his habilitation in 1928 and was the founder, editor and author of relevant specialist journals. The League of Nations appointed him to the hygiene commission. At his instigation, perinatal mortality was a topic at the international congress of the Child Protection Association in Geneva . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP , from which he left again in 1943.

After Langstein's death, in the course of bringing the facility into line, Rott got into disputes with the new clinic manager, with political differences and issues relating to the hospital's medical orientation in particular. Under the new management it was intended to convert the hospital into a pure clinical operation. In 1934 he was pushed out of the director's office in the KAVH by the National Socialists .

However, Rott got a job as a research assistant at the Reich Health Office . From 1939 he worked as an honorary professor for social hygiene at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . The application for the honorary professorship was justified by the dean with Rott's merits for the “reorganization” of the medical-scientific societies. Rott eventually won a lawsuit over his release from the KAVH in 1942 but did not return to the hospital.

After the end of the Second World War , Rott lived in Baden-Baden, where he continued to work privately with socio-pediatric issues.

literature

  • Peter Reinicke : Rott, Fritz , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 497f.
  • Elmer Schabel: Social hygiene between social reform and social biology: Fritz Rott (1878–1959) and infant care in Germany. Matthiesen, Husum 1995.
  • Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann: The pioneers of pediatric medicine. In: European Journal of Pediatrics. Vol. 148, H. 2 (November 1988), p. 91, doi: 10.1007 / BF00445909 .
  • Rott, Fritz, Dr. med. In: Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health System" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , Part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, ISSN 0172 -2131, pp. 480-481.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 57/263; 29/158.
  2. ↑ Hugo Maier (Ed. :) Who is who of social work. Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 498.
  3. ↑ Georg Loewenstein . Municipal health care and socialist medical policy between the German Empire and National Socialism. Autobiographical, Biographical, and Health Policy Notes. (Working reports on buried alternatives in health policy 3) Univ. Bremen, Bremen 1980, p. 24: »The year 1933 ... friends and acquaintances whom you had previously helped suddenly no longer knew you. One of them was ... Prof. Rott. "
  4. ↑ a b c Rott, Fritz, Dr. med. In: Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt: The way to the "Law on the Unification of Health" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , Part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, p. 480f.
personal data
SURNAME Rott, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician, social medicine specialist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1959
Place of death Baden-Baden