Gerhard Orzechowski

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Gerhard Richard Theodor Orzechowski (born November 14, 1902 in Rosenberg , Upper Silesia , † July 29, 1977 ) was a German physician.

Life

Orzechowski was born as the son of the physician Waldemar Orzechowski in Rosenberg, Upper Silesia. At the age of 25 he received his doctorate in medicine in Wroclaw . His habilitation took place in June 1934 at the HU Berlin .

From October 16, 1939, he was an adjunct professor of pharmacology and head of the medical department of the state hospital in Schleswig-Stadtfeld. Orzechowski is said to have developed the experimental drug D-IX , which was intended to be given to German soldiers on the front in 1944.

After the war he became senior physician at the municipal auxiliary hospital in Kiel (1946/47) and from 1947 to 1950 he held this position in Rendsburg . In addition, he was the head of the clinical-scientific department of the company Dr. Madaus , Cologne.

Publications (selection)

  • Otto Gessner : Poisonous and medicinal plants from Central Europe. 3. Edition. ed. and edit again by Gerhard Orzechowski, Heidelberg 1974.

literature

  • Hartmut Nöldeke , Volker Hartmann: The medical service in the German submarine weapon and in the small combat units. History of German submarine medicine. Mittler, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0501-0 .
  • Dessa K. Bergen-Cico: War and Drugs. The Role of Military Conflict in the Development of Substance Abuse, Routledge, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-317-24938-2 .
  • Norman Ohler : Total intoxication. Drugs in the Third Reich. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-31517-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scientific review . tape 30 , 1977, pp. 384 .
  2. Waldemar Orzechowski. Retrieved January 26, 2018 .
  3. ^ Gerhard Orzechowski: A case of primary tube carcinoma . Ratibor, 1927, p. 49 .
  4. ↑ History of the day . In: Clinical weekly . No. 18 , 1939, pp. 1484 .
  5. FOCUS Online: Drugs to the front . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on January 26, 2018]).
  6. Andreas Ulrich: Intoxicated into battle. The Wehrmacht supplied its soldiers with drugs . In: Stephan Burgdorff, Klaus Wiegrefe (ed.): The Second World War: turning point in German history . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2005, p. 219 .
  7. Personal details . In: Chemiker-Zeitung / Chemical Apparatus . tape 91 , 1967, p. 832 .