Georg Hauffe
Georg Emil Hauffe (born August 6, 1872 in Breslau , † June 29, 1936 in Dresden ) was a German doctor and hydrotherapist.
life and work
Georg Hauffe was the older son of the royal railway secretary Robert Hauffe (1833–1902) and his wife Marie Hauffe nee. Lange (1837–1912) from Schlawa . He was born with Alma Hauffe. Brandenburger (1880–1960) married. Their only daughter Ursula had died at a young age. Georg Hauffe was a cousin of the Leipzig publisher Ernst Heinrich Lange and the Berlin city treasurer Georg Lange . Hauffe studied medicine at the University of Breslau and graduated as a doctor of medicine (Dr. med.); License to practice medicine on February 17, 1897 before the medical examination committee in Breslau. Georg Hauffe began his professional career after completing the second half of his military service as a “one-year volunteer” and subsequent medical training. First as a trainee doctor in the Provincial Midwifery School in Wroclaw, then as an assistant doctor in Poznan at the Provincial Midwifery School; last here as 1st assistant and teacher at the institution.
He then moved to Berlin for almost his entire professional life, first in 1900/1901 as an assistant at the Birkenwerder sanatorium, then until 1906 as a department doctor at the Groß-Lichterfelde district hospital near Berlin. In Lichterfelde, Hauffe was an assistant doctor to Privy Councilor Ernst Schweninger , who ran the newly built district hospital from 1900 to 1906 and expanded it into a center for naturopathy . During these almost six years Georg Hauffe worked as the right hand of Ernst Schweninger, who became known through the healing of Bismarck .
Hauffesche casts
During the time they shared with Schweninger, Hauffe developed the technique of sloping and rising baths ("Rising forearm baths according to Hauffe or Hauffe-Schweninger") in combination with the Kneipp alternating baths. Even today, the Hauffesche rule (blood shift, interrelationship of the boiler area, body core to the periphery) is the subject of teaching in appropriate medical care professions . The Hauffeschen arm and foot baths are even explicitly mentioned in the current sales tax guideline on § 12 Paragraph 2 No. 9 UStG .
Forest sanatorium Zehlendorf-West
From April 1, 1906 to December 31, 1919, he ran his own sanatorium in Berlin for physical-dietary healing methods: “Waldsanatorium Zehlendorf-West Dr. Hauffe - for those in need of relaxation of all kinds - summer and winter cures ”. He ran the Zehlendorf-West forest sanatorium in his own name, but did not own the facility itself. When the owner had sold the property at Alsenstrasse 99-109 to another hospital operator at the end of 1919, he had to give up the sanatorium. In the spring of 1920 the Waldfriede hospital was built on this site .
From 1920 to 1934, Hauffe set up his own practice in Berlin-Wilmersdorf as a specialist in internal diseases and physical-dietary treatment. At the same time, Hauffe was a trainee doctor at the 2nd Medical University Clinic of the Charité in the department for physical healing methods under Privy Councilor Kraus until April 30, 1927 ; Friedrich Kraus , as a full physician with clinical training under Schweninger, gave him a very good certificate and emphasized the physical-dietary healing methods, which Hauffe had also scientifically proven, as a special qualification. After that, Hauffe worked in the same position with the internist Gustav von Bergmann , before moving from November 1, 1930 to March 31, 1934 as a senior physician at the hydrotherapeutic department of the Moabit municipal hospital in Berlin-Mitte.
Rudolf Hess Hospital in Dresden
After the National Socialists came to power, the Dresden City Hospital Johannstadt was to "[...] be expanded as quickly as possible into a biological hospital from 1934, which will initially be unparalleled in Germany and the world. The Fuehrer's deputy has given his approval that the house will be renamed ' Rudolf-Heß-Krankenhaus ' after its redesign . "
The now 62-year-old Georg Hauffe was appointed head of the hydrotherapeutic department there by the Reichsärzteführer Gerhard Wagner , who scientifically examined in particular the effects of the increasing partial bath on the healthy and sick human organism. The chief physician of the hospital forwarded this decision to the administration for confirmation: “For the position of the chief physician of the 3rd biological department in the Rudolf-Hess-hospital is from the Reichsärzteführer Dr. med. Georg Hauffe envisaged. Dr. In his person, his attitude and his previous activities, Hauffe appears particularly suitable to head the department in the intended sense. "
Since Hauffe died in 1936, he could only have little influence on the work at the Rudolf-Hess-Hospital. Georg Hauffe died suddenly of a heart attack on June 29, 1936 at the age of 63 in his apartment. The medical profession of the house placed its own advertisement "His memory will always stay with us and in the history of medicine." The mayor Rudolf Kluge of the state capital Dresden appeared at the funeral service on July 2, 1936 .
Publications
- Contributions to the knowledge of the use and effects of hot baths: especially hot partial baths. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1906.
- 233 rheumatoid arthritis treated without salicylic preparations. R. Noske, Borna / Leipzig 1906.
- Physiological basics of hydrotherapy. Kornfeld, Berlin 1924.
- The physical therapy of the general practitioner. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1926.
- Heart, pulsation and blood movement. JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1930.
- Physical laws and blood circulation. In: Virchow's archive for pathological anatomy and physiology and for clinical medicine. Volume 279, November 10, 1930, pp. 159-180.
- The dependence of the heart's activity on the attitude of the vascularity. Verlag Julius Springer, 1932, pp. 780-810.
literature
- Hubertus Averbeck: From cold water therapy to physical therapy. BoD, 2013.
- André-Michael Beer, Bernhard Uehleke, Karl Rüdiger Wiebelitz: The History of Inpatient Care in German Departments Focussing on Natural Healing. In: Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Volume 2013, (2013), Article 521879.
- Uwe Heyll: water, fasting, air and light. The history of naturopathy in Germany. Campus Verlag, 2006.
- Marina Lienert: Dresden, center of the new German medicine. In: Ärzteblatt Sachsen. 4/2005.
- Jörg Melzer: Whole food nutrition: dietetics, naturopathy, National Socialism, social demands. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003.
- Christine Oehme: Georg Hauffe - biographical study of an important hydrotherapist at the former Johannstadt hospital - with special consideration of the rising partial bath. Med. Diss. Dresden 1967.
- Claus Ruda: Naturopathy in Berlin. In: Berliner Ärzteblatt. 1999.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lange family records
- ↑ License to practice medicine dated February 17, 1897.
- ↑ Stadd, City Health Office
- ↑ Letter from Dr. Jensen from October 10, 1934, LH Dresden, StADD
- ^ Lienert, Marina 2005.
- ^ Dresdner Anzeiger from July 1, 1936.
- ↑ Letter of thanks from Alma Hauffe of 4 July 1936 Stadd
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hauffe, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hauffe, Georg Emil (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and hydrotherapist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1936 |
| Place of death | Dresden |