Georg Birnbaum

Georg Hans Birnbaum (born May 21, 1890 in Ansbach , † December 23, 1948 in Hanover ) was a German dermatologist and university professor .

Life

Birnbaum was the son of a butcher. After graduating from his hometown in 1909, he studied medicine at the universities of Erlangen, Rostock, Kiel, Munich and Freiburg. In 1918 he was at the University of Rostock Dr. med. PhD . From 1919 he worked as an assistant doctor to Karl Zieler at the University Skin Clinic in Würzburg, where he completed his habilitation in 1924 . He then worked as a private lecturer and was appointed associate professor in 1927. From 1927 he was chief physician at the Dortmund Dermatology Clinic and moved to Nuremberg in 1933, where he was in charge of the city's skin clinic. He became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 3.576.560) and the SA . In 1936 he moved from the SA to the SS (membership number 276,802), where he achieved the rank of Hauptsturmführer in 1939.

In December 1936 he took over the chair of dermatology at the University of Königsberg and was director of the university clinic and polyclinic for skin and venereal diseases, where he held office until the beginning of 1945. During the Second World War he was chief physician at a fortress hospital in Königsberg and from the beginning of February 1943 a squadron physician .

literature

• Ernst Klee : The personal dictionary on the Third Reich: who was what before and after 1945? S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 , p. 50.
• Albrecht Scholz, Karl Holubar, Günter Burg (Hrsg.): History of dermatology in Germany. , German Dermatological Society 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-026784-0 , p. 113.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ Harry Scholz, Paul Schroeder: Doctors in East and West Prussia: Life and Achievement since the 18th Century, Holzner, 1970, p. 111f.
3. ↑ Ernst Klee: The personal dictionary on the Third Reich: who was what before and after 1945? , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 50