Georg August Wagner

This article deals with the physician Georg August Wagner. For the pedagogue Georg August Wagner see Georg Wagner (pedagogue) .

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Georg August Wagner (born September 23, 1873 in Prague , † August 15, 1947 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician .

Live and act

Wagner began studying medicine in Prague and, at the request of his parents, moved to Graz to continue his studies there. As he was in Prague before as a member of the club there, Wagner was very enthusiastic about the new football game, which came from England with the rules laid down there, and founded the first football association in Graz, of which he was the captain until he finished his studies. This organized the first football game in Austria, which took place on March 18, 1894 on a meadow in Graz city park.

Georg August Wagner was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He worked as a surgeon and assistant doctor at the First Surgical University Clinic in Vienna, in 1904 as an assistant at the Heidelberg University Women's Clinic and from 1905 in Vienna. His academic teachers were Ernst Wertheim and Rudolf Chrobak . He completed his habilitation in 1913 at the University of Vienna for gynecology and obstetrics. In 1917 Wagner was appointed full professor of gynecology at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague and took over the directorate of the women's clinic. In 1923 he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and in 1928 became director of the Charité women's clinic. Georg August Wagner applied for the successor to the late Heinrich von Peham at the University of Vienna with a letter including a list of scientific papers dated January 31, 1931 . However, it was rejected.

During the National Socialist era, X-ray and radium castrations were performed at Wagner's clinic . Wagner himself was, among other things, the doctor in charge of Margret Speer , as well as the wives of Theo Morell and Rüdiger von der Goltz . From 1935 to 1937 he was President of the German Society for Gynecology and organized its congress in Berlin in 1937. The society later made him an honorary member. In 1936 Georg August Wagner became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Georg August Wagner headed the II. University Women's Clinic in Berlin until his retirement in 1945. After that, it was temporarily headed by Carl Kaufmann . Wagner moved to southern Germany and died in Garmisch in 1947 at the age of 73.

Fonts (selection)

• Georg August Wagner: Contributions to the question of the origin of the amniotic fluid: From the II. KK Univ.-Women's Clinic in Vienna. With pathological-anatomical, experimental and clinical studies on the function of the fetal kidneys. Deuticke, Leipzig-Vienna 1913.

literature

• Hans Ludwig , Walter Jonat : German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics - From Program to Embassy. A short history (1886-2008) of the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics reviewing its 57 congresses. 2nd edition 2008. German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics , ISBN 3-00-009676-0 .

Web links

• Biography, Georg August Wagner in the catalog of the scientific collections of the Humboldt University in Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wagner, Georg August in the archive of the University of Vienna .
2. ↑ KLINOPTIKUM, Issue 10, 2008.
3. ↑ KLINOPTIKUM, Issue 10, 2008.
4. ^ Andreas Mettenleiter : Personal reports, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements III (I – Z). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 269-305, here: p. 299.
5. ^ Andreas Mettenleiter : Personal reports, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements III (I – Z). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 269-305, here: p. 299.
6. ^ Directory of the documents for the replacement of the position after the death of Heinrich von Peham in the archive of the University of Vienna .
7. ^ Sigurd Schulze: The Charité in the Nazi era. online ( memento of the original from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Henrik Eberle, Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv: Letters to Hitler: a nation writes its leader: unknown documents from Moscow archives published for the first time. BASTEI LÜBBE, 2007, ISBN 3785723105 .