Gotthold Pannwitz

Gotthold Pannwitz (back row, middle, with hat) in Tenerife in 1910.

Gotthold Theodor Pannwitz (born May 16, 1861 in Kirchhain ; † November 29, 1926 in Lychen ) was a German physician and founder of the German Central Committee for the establishment of sanatoriums for lung patients .

life and work

Pannwitz attended the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin . From 1880 he studied there as a pupil at the military medical training institute of the Charité . He became an assistant doctor and senior physician in Strasbourg and finally in 1890 medical officer in Kehl . During the cholera epidemic from 1893 to 1894 he worked in the electricity monitoring service in the Rhine area. In 1895 he returned to Berlin and worked at the Imperial Health Department . From now on he devoted himself to fighting the widespread disease tuberculosis . He founded the German Central Committee for the Establishment of Sanatoriums for Lung Sufferers , later renamed the German Central Committee for the Fight against Tuberculosis , and became its General Secretary. In 1899 he organized the International Tuberculosis Congress, in 1902 the International Tuberculosis Conference in Berlin, at which the International Association against Tuberculosis was founded. In 1900 he was promoted to senior staff doctor. Two years later he retired from the military medical service and was appointed professor.

In 1903 Pannwitz established the Hohenlychen sanatorium in Lychen as a popular sanatorium for the Red Cross . He advocated a holistic concept - the sanatorium should not only cure tuberculosis, but also prepare for a life after the disease. That is why there was also a horticultural school, a household school and a bathing establishment on the spacious site. For Lychen, the construction of the institute meant its elevation to a climatic health resort and an economic boom.

• Hohenlychen sanatoriums
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  Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria-Sanatorium

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  Dept. 11b

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  Cecilienheim

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  Dept. VII

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  Administration building

In the spring of 1910 Pannwitz led an expedition to Tenerife organized by the international tuberculosis conference . The aim was to study the effect of altitude and solar radiation in a climate that is milder than that of the Alps. Pannwitz had put together an international team of renowned physiologists . In addition to Nathan Zuntz and Carl Neuberg from Berlin, Hermann von Schrötter and Arnold Durig from Vienna as well as Joseph Barcroft from Cambridge and Gordon Douglas (1882–1963) from Oxford took part.

During the First World War, Pannwitz was the governor's doctor in Brussels, editor of the official journal of the Belgian Red Cross, chairman of the Brussels Military Medical Society and head of the social welfare center.

Pannwitz primary school in Lychen

Honors

The city of Lychen made Pannwitz its honorary citizen . In the Hohenlychen district, a street and the primary school are named after him.

Fonts (selection)

• The planned war preparation of the Red Cross associations: Instructions for drawing up the mobilization plan , Heitz, Strasbourg 1892
• The nutritional value of soldier's bread , Berlin 1898
• The care for the families of the sick and those discharged from sanatoriums , In: Gotthold Pannwitz (Ed.): Report on the congress to combat tuberculosis as a widespread disease , Berlin 24. – 27. May 1899, pp. 520-525
• German industry and technology in the establishment and operation of sanatoriums and hospitals , publishing house "Das Rothe Kreuz", Berlin 1899
• with Paul Jacob: The development and control of pulmonary tuberculosis , 2 volumes, Verlag G. Thieme, Leipzig 1901 and 1902
• A Decade of International Tuberculosis Work , 1913
• The rural homestead , Volksheilststätten-Verlag, Hohen-Lychen 1918

literature

• Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 15. Leipzig 1908, p. 363.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gotthold Pannwitz in the catalog of the German National Library