Georg Ernst (doctor)

Georg Ernst, 1960

Georg Ernst at the presentation of his exhibition "The History of White Deer - Loschwitz" in 1953 with Manfred von Ardenne (left) and CDU Chairman Friedrich Mayer (center)

Georg Ernst (born April 24, 1900 in Donauwörth ; † March 18, 1990 in Rastatt ) was a German internist. He is considered to be one of the first activists after the Dresden bombing night of February 13, 1945, and in 1961 he was the founder of the Dresden working group "Homeland History, Monument Preservation and Nature Protection" (in the German Cultural Association of the GDR ), which he headed until 1965.

Life

Georg Ernst came from a family of civil servants in Donauwörth. After graduating from high school near St. Stephan in Augsburg , he studied medicine in Würzburg and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1926/27 he worked as an assistant doctor at the Deaconess Hospital Freiburg / Br. at Schüle and from 1927 to 1931 at the Medical University Hospital in Münster with Paul Krause. From 1931 to 1935 Ernst was senior physician at the X-ray and Radium Institute Dr. Nahmmacher Dresden , Altenzellerstraße. On November 1, 1935, he opened a practice as an internist and radiologist in the Weißer Hirsch district , Bautzener Landstrasse 4 opposite the well-known Lahmann sanatorium . Service obligations in the Dresden health system included, among other things, the tuberculosis counseling service in Freital, the school doctor work for the Weißer Hirsch and Bühlau and the maternal counseling service.

As an emergency doctor on duty and on the night of the bombing of February 13, 1945 at Dresden Central Station , Ernst left numerous reports from those affected and his own descriptions. That night he set up the Parkhotel Weißer Hirsch as an emergency hospital and first reception point with largely his own resources , whereby he was able to win over many colleagues to work. From February 14 to May 7, 1945, over 6000 injured, sick and needy people were cared for here. After the invasion of the Red Army , the emergency hospital was continued despite a ban by the Soviets and the authorities. On May 12, 1945 Ernst and Fleischer received powers of attorney from the Soviet commander to set up the Dresden health system. Five days later, on May 17, Ernst was given the management of the Dresden-Loschwitz Hospital (formerly Dr. Möller Sanatorium ), which he held until January 1946. From November 27, 1946 to December 31, 1949, Ernst worked as an internist and x-ray doctor at the hospital of the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD) in the former Lahmann sanatorium.

In 1950, the Ernstschen Praxis Weißer Hirsch, Collenbuschstrasse 16, was reopened. In addition to his practice, he worked on the board of the district union group for doctors and in the medical service. He gave numerous lectures on local history and organized exhibitions and medical festivals. His practice was taken over as a polyclinic in 1966 after he moved to Baden for the purpose of family reunification when he reached retirement age . As chief physician of the spa clinics Dr. He worked with Wagner Sasbachwalden until 1976.

He was awarded the title of Honored Doctor of the People in 1963 for his "personal initiative in rebuilding our health care as an activist from the very beginning " (Grube, Medical Director of the Medical Academy "Carl Gustav Carus" , letter of December 10, 1963) .

Works

Medical scientific publications

• The calcification processes on the costal cartilage. In: Advances in the field of X-rays Volume XXXIX Issue 3, pp. 485-494
• Rheuma and rheumatism a social problem (together with HJ Broichmann) Fischer-Verlag Jena 1929, 86 pages
• The use of chemotherapy in cancer treatment . In: Strahlentherapie 44 (1932), pp. 97-108
• Simple adjustment technique for displaying lateral rib fractures in the area of ​​the lower half of the chest. In: Röntgenpraxis 5 (1933), issue 2
• About the effect of the raw apple diet on intestinal diseases. In: Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift 1933, No. 40, p. 1562
• The anterior pituitary hormone therapy in combination with radiation treatment - effect on genital cancer in women. In: Strahlentherapie 48 (1933), pp. 552-561
• Appropriate x-ray technology for diagnosing pancreatitis and pancreatic tumors . In: Medical World No. 23 (1934), pp. 1-3
• Combined radiation treatment and chemotherapy [...] for cancer patients and tumors . In: Radiologische Rundschau Volume II (1934), pp. 223-240
• Status, experience and progress of modern radiation therapy with special consideration of malignant tumors . In: German Med. Wschr. No. 27 (1934), pp. 1008f

Cultural and historical work and activities

• The ordination book of the Lower Saxony poet Friedrich Wilhelm Weber . In: The Medical World 1934, No. 38
• Curiosities from an old women's book from 1676. In: Die Medizinische Welt 1934, No. 3
• Tobacco college as hindrances to necessary duties. In: The Medical World 1935, No. 27
• A calendar from 1812 with previously unpublished notes by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter .

• Traces of God, God's judgments, God's homeland - slide shows on the history of Dresden in the Catholic parish of St. Franziskus Xaverius , 1952
• The cultural and historical significance of the Loschwitz - Weißer Hirsch - Pillnitz landscape, lecture on October 26, 1953
• From the cultural history of Dresden viticulture. Lecture at the Kulturbund, Section Botany and Horticulture, Dresden Pillnitz on November 24, 1954
• Richard Wagner and Dresden with sign book for Richard Wagner's 150th birthday commemorative exhibition in 1963 in the glockenspiel pavilion of the Zwinger
• "Neuralgischer Punkt", Spring Festival of Doctors April 2, 1960
• "Aesculapia on wire" Medical Festival April 22, 1961
• "Aesculapian tames the twist" Doctors' festival November 16, 1963

Seals (selection)

• Text of the St. Benno song ("St. Benno has blessed the grapes with a holy hand in the Meißner Land ...") - music by Heinrich Eckardt
• Text of the St. Hubertus song ("Sankt Hubertus, you patron of the forest, transfigured with miracles and signs ...") - music by Georg Rotsch
• Gloria. The strange story of the death of a doll and the life of a child. A fantasy story. Dresden 1945 with pictures by Charlotte Baron-Raabe
• Epistula Resurrectionis. An Easter pistle. Dresden Holy Saturday 1945 (unpublished)
• Christmas ghosts. German, French and English edition under the pseudonym Ernst [Ernest] Corvus, Friesverlag Berlin 1947, with pictures by Charlotte Baron-Raabe
• Gülding, the golden hamster. A fairy tale. Dresden 1954 (unpublished)
• Flute in the snow. Poems from the Ore Mountains . 1959
• Ahrenshoop . Poems 1962 (unpublished)
• Legend game on St. Hubertus (for the Catholic parish Weißer Hirsch) in 6 pictures

Literature / sources

• W. Dölter: The activities of the medical science societies in Dresden from their foundation to the takeover by the Medical Academy "Carl Gustav Carus" , Dresden 1958.
• Humanitas. Newspaper for Medicine and Society No. 10, 3rd volume, Berlin May 15, 1963: Humanist, doctor, cultural and local historian: The Dresden internist Dr. Georg Ernst.
• Saxon Latest News , July 4, 1963, hiking trail from Loschwitz to Pillnitz . Unknown beauties around Dresden are to be explored. (SNN conversation with Dr. Ernst)
• Die Union (Dresden daily newspaper) January 10, 1964: Honored Doctors of the People.
• G. Schmidt: Siegfried Störzner in memory. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 15 (1969), p. 296
• The Union (Dresden) January 31, 1987: St. Hubertus am Heiderand. Parish fair anniversary at the White Deer.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography Georg Ernst, Finding aid for the estate and collection of Dr. Ernst in the main state archive in Dresden , holdings 12674 personal estate of Georg Ernst .
2. ^ German literature archive Marbach, manuscripts.

Web links

• Main State Archive Dresden: 12674 - personal estate of Georg Ernst