Georg Bessau

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Georg Bessau (born January 25, 1884 in Elbing , † November 16, 1944 in Berlin-Buch ) was a German pediatrician and university professor .

Life

Bessau studied medicine in Breslau , Würzburg and Bern . In 1903 he became a member of the Arminia Breslau fraternity . The medical state examination took place in 1908 and the habilitation in 1915 . In 1920 he became associate professor of paediatrics at the University of Marburg and in 1922 professor and director of the University Children's Clinic and Polyclinic in Leipzig. In 1932, Bessau succeeded Adalbert Czerny on the chair of paediatrics at the Charité in Berlin. In 1933 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . In 1935 he became chairman of the Berlin Society for Pediatrics. From 1935 to 1944 he was editor of the monthly magazine for paediatrics. In 1939 he introduced the preventive treatment of rickets with vitamin D in infants.

Parallel to Georg Hensel's medical experiments in Kaufbeuren , Bessau also carried out vaccination experiments on mentally and physically disabled children. The children to be murdered by the so-called Aktion T4 - carried out on a decentralized basis from 1942 - were postponed for medical experiments of this kind before the so-called child euthanasia . Bessau carried out his experiments with a still untested tuberculosis vaccine in the municipal mental hospital for children and adolescents Wiesengrund in Berlin-Wittenau . In August 1942, Bessau was appointed extraordinary member of the Scientific Senate of the Army Medical Services by Hitler ; from 1944 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the authorized representative for health care, Karl Brandt . He died at age 60 of cancer .

In his honor, the intensive care unit of the children's clinic at the University of Giessen (now the University Clinic of Giessen and Marburg ) was named "Ward Bessau" until a few years ago.

Works

  • The Leipzig medical district. edited by Martin Weiser; introduced by Karl Sudhoff ; Biographical contributions by Dr. Bessau, among others, on the conference of the century of German natural scientists and doctors, probably and supplemented edition Lorentz, Leipzig 1922.
  • Pediatric textbook. edit by G. Bessau et al. Ed. by Emil Feer . 12., verb. Edition. Fischer, Jena 1938.
  • with Walter Stoeckel : textbook of obstetrics. 9th, unchanged. Edition. Fischer, Jena 1945.

literature

  • Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann : The pioneers of pediatric medicine. In: European Journal of Pediatrics. 148, 1989, p. 285.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death register of the Berlin registry office book No. 2977/1944.
  2. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 34.
  3. ↑ Petra Schweizer-Martinschek: NS-Medizinversuche: "Not exactly physically particularly valuable children". In: Dtsch Arztebl. 105 (26), 2008, p. A-1445. (pdf)
  4. ^ T. Beddies, HP Schmiedebach: "Euthanasia" - victims and test subjects. The fate of diseased, disabled children in Berlin during World War II. In: Medizinhist J. 39 (2-3), 2004, pp. 165-196. PMID 15497481
  5. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Bessau, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1944
Place of death Berlin book