Günther Hertwig

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Günther Karl Wilhelm Hertwig (born March 10, 1888 in Jena , † August 4, 1970 in Halle ) was a German anatomist, doctor and university professor.

youth

The son of Oscar Hertwig , brother of the biologist Paula Hertwig and cousin of the zoologist Richard von Hertwig attended the humanistic Joachimsthal-Gymnasium in Berlin , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1906 . He then studied medicine in Berlin, Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich . After his medical state examination , 1911 medical intern at the Charité in Berlin until 1912 and in the same year license to practice medicine and doctorate with the work: The fate of the radium-irradiated sperm romance in the sea urchin; an experimental cytological investigation (Berlin 1912).

Live and act

In 1913 he traveled with his sister for a research stay at the Naples Zoological Station , which was followed by two more in 1930 and 1958. Back in Germany, he became the first assistant at the anatomical institute of Frankfurt University in 1914 . In fact, however, due to the outbreak of World War I , he was a battalion and ward doctor at the surgical department in a field hospital near Sedan . For this Hertwig was awarded the EK II and the Red Cross Medal .

In 1918 Hertwig completed his habilitation with a thesis on cross-breeding attempts with amphibians; Part 1 True and false bastards ( Bonn 1918) and in January 1919 took a position as a private lecturer at the chair for normal anatomy and ontogenesis at the University of Frankfurt am Main . Appointed Extraordinary Professor in 1922 (nbao. Professor before 1933), he moved to the University of Rostock , where he researched and taught as the first assistant and prosector at the University's Anatomical Institute . His main areas of responsibility lay in the areas of heredity , cell theory and studies of the influence of germ cell formation and early development by external factors. To do this, he examined the effects of radium and X-rays on animal tissue .

In 1925 he married Lydia Hondru (* 1903), the daughter of a high school teacher from Bessarabia , whose incurable schizophrenia quickly worsened so much that she soon returned to her homeland. Hertwig never let the contact with her break

During the National Socialist era , Hertwig became a member of the NS teachers' association and the NS People's Welfare in 1934 , but without joining the NSDAP .

After successfully in October 1936 exchange Curt Elze , the director at the Anatomical Istitut in Rostock, to the chair of anatomy in Giessen, Hertwig headed first provisional teaching and research institution, this place but had already in 1937 in favor of the much younger Kurt Neubert to operate of the leader of the lectureship Heinrich Gißel and the dean Wilhelm Comberg resign after the Reich Ministry of Education intervened to the disadvantage of Hertwig. Hertwig then quit his job at the University of Rostock and returned to his parents' house in Berlin. Through the patronage of Hermann Stieves , the head of the First Anatomical Institute and the Anatomical-Biological Institute at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, Hertwig was given the opportunity to research and teach there until 1946 as an adjunct professor.

In 1946 he became director of the Anatomical Institute at the Medical Faculty of the University of Halle , where his sister Paula was also the professor for general biology and genetics. Hertwig retired in 1955. He was co-editor of the Morphological Yearbook and the journal for microscopic-anatomical research .

Honors

Publications

  • The fate of radium-irradiated sperm chromatin in the sea urchin egg: an experimental cytological study . Friedrich Cohen, Bonn 1912.
  • Crossing attempts on amphibians: I. True and false hybrids . Friedrich Cohen, Bonn 1918.
  • with O. Hertwig: General Biology . G. Fischer, Jena 1923.
  • with FK Studnička; E. Tschopp E. and W. von Möllendorff: The living mass . Springer, Berlin 1929.
  • Manual of microscopic human anatomy / Part 1. General microscopic anatomy and organization of living mass . Springer, Berlin 1978.

literature

  • Michael Buddrus and Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich . Munich 2007, pp. 189–190.
  • Sybille Gerstengarbe: The academic careers of the siblings Paula and Günther Hertwig. In: Acta Historica Leopoldina 45 (2005), pp. 307-325.
  • Sybille Gerstengarbe: Paula Hertwig - geneticist in the 20th century. A search for clues . Halle (Saale) 2012, p. 505.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hertwig, Günther. University of Rostock, July 20, 2018, accessed on March 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Hertwig G .: Crossing attempts with amphibians. In: Habilitation. Springer-Verlag, 1918, accessed on March 4, 2029 .
  3. ↑ a b Sybille Gerstengabe: Hertwig, Günther Karl Wilhelm , Lexicon of important natural scientists, 2007, Volume 2; Elsevier GmbH, Munich; P. 198; ISBN 3-8274-1883-6
  4. ^ Journal for microscopic-anatomical research. RWTH Publications, accessed on March 5, 2020 .
  5. ^ Member entry by Günther Hertwig at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 10, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Hertwig, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hertwig, Günther Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, anatomist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1970
Place of death Hall