Fritz Specht (medic)

Friedrich Wilhelm Specht , called Fritz Specht (born June 11, 1890 in Ensdorf (Saar) , † November 4, 1972 in Hof an der Saale ) was a German ENT doctor , professor and rector of the University of Erlangen .

Life

Fritz Specht was the son of mountain councilor Adolf Specht and his wife Emilie geb. Friedrich . After passing the final examination at the high school High Baden Baden-Baden , he began in 1909 to study medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander University , where he in WS 1909/10 in the AMV Fridericiana Erlangen occurred. After studying at the University of Halle , he completed his studies in Erlangen in 1914 with the state examination. In the same year he was approved . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. During the war he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He worked as an assistant at the ENT clinics of the Universities of Erlangen (from the beginning of April 1919), Halle (from January 1920) and finally Kiel (from October 1920), where he completed his training as an ENT specialist. In 1921 he became a senior physician at the Kiel Ear Clinic and qualified as a professor there in 1925 in ENT medicine. Subsequently, he worked there as a private lecturer and from 1930 as a non-civil servant extraordinary professor and in the meantime also represented the clinic director. From 1930 to 1934 he worked as a resident ENT specialist in Kiel.

Specht became a member of the NSDAP in 1932 (membership number 1,048,497). For the party he belonged to the Kiel city council in 1933/34. In 1934 he was appointed steward of the NSDAP at the Medical Faculty in Kiel.

At the beginning of November 1934, Specht took over the professorship for ENT medicine in Erlangen. At the beginning of April 1935 he was appointed full professor in Erlangen and also headed the university ENT clinic. From 1935 he was a member of the physico-medical law firm in Erlangen. From 1935 to 1938 he was rector of the University of Erlangen. He did not accept an appointment at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf in 1938 . In 1937 Specht joined the SS. There he advanced to SS-Sturmbannführer in 1944.

Towards the end of the Second World War , Specht was interned in America on April 26, 1945. During the internment period he was suspended from his university post at the beginning of July 1945 by the American military administration for political reasons. Released from internment in the spring of 1948, he temporarily took over the representation in a practice in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate . In 1948 he was classified as a "fellow traveler" in the court proceedings . From 1948 to 1967 he practiced as an ENT doctor in Hof. In early July 1955 he obtained during simultaneous retirement , the professor dignity. His main research interests were hearing physiology and, in the clinical area, laryngeal tuberculosis.

From 1921, Specht was married to Cilly, daughter of the ENT doctor Alfred Denker . The couple had four children. The son Gert Specht (1925-2018) lived in Berlin.

Awards

• Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern

literature

• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 163.
• 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 .
• Academic teaching centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Germany in the 20th century . German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin 1996, ISBN 978-3-642-80066-5 .
• The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1743–1960 / [Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg e. V.]. Ed. On behalf of the Rector. by Renate Wittern. Part 2. Faculty of Medicine / edit. by Astrid Ley, (Erlangen Research: Special Series: Vol. 9), University Library, Erlangen 1999, ISBN 3-930357-30-5 .

Web links

• Fritz Wilhelm Specht in the Kiel list of scholars

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Eduard Haas: The Academic-Musical Association Fridericana in the Sondershäuser Association, formerly the student choir in Erlangen . Erlangen 1982, self-published, p. 292
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Renate Wittern (Ed.): The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1743–1969 , Part 2. Medical Faculty, University Library, Erlangen 1999, p. 186
3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 590
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 163.
5. ↑ Academic teaching centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Germany in the 20th century . German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery (Ed.), Heidelberg / Berlin 1996, p. 83
6. ↑ Kressner, Alfred, Denker, Alfred In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 3 (1957), p. 601 (accessed on August 22, 2020)