Gunther Lehmann

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Gunther Lehmann (born January 30, 1897 in Werneck , † July 3, 1974 in Dortmund ) was a German physiologist . He is one of the founders of work physiology.

Life

Lehmann studied medicine at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and was active in the Corps Moenania in 1919 . As an inactive , he moved to the Prussian University of Greifswald . There he was noticed by Edgar Atzler , who took him with him in 1921 as a scientific assistant to the Berlin Institute for Work Physiology of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science . Lehmann finished his studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , which made him Dr. med. PhD. In 1927 the habilitation followed .

In the same year Lehmann became head of department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Occupational Physiology. When it moved from Berlin to Dortmund in 1929, Lehmann did his re- habilitation at the Westphalian Wilhelms University . Scientific member and director of the institute since 1942, he transferred research from the laboratory to the factories. EMU appointed him in 1934 to associate professor and 1939 apl. Professor . His findings led to a significant improvement in working conditions, e.g. B. of lighting, workplace design, work breaks and noise abatement.

During the Second World War he also worked as a senior staff doctor in the context of air force research on the subject of "Investigations into the effects of oxygen breathing, oxygen deficiency and pharmaceuticals on fatigue". He was a participant in the conference on medical questions in distress at sea and winter death on October 26th and 27th, 1942, where reports were also given about the "attempts at hypothermia" in the Dachau concentration camp .

After the end of the war, the Americans took him into automatic arrest , from which he was released in September 1946. He returned to his place of work as head of the institute and cooperated with Otto Kienzle . In 1948 the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Occupational Physiology was renamed the Max Planck Institute for Occupational Physiology. From 1950 he had a teaching position at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1955 she made him an honorary professor . From 1957 to 1960 he chaired the medical-biological section of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society and in 1958/59 the Scientific Council of this society. Lehmann retired in 1966 .

For over 30 years he was the editor of the journal Occupational Physiology . He was also a member of the editorial team of the journal Grenzgebiete der Medizin .

Works

  • Work at high temperatures . 1956. GoogleBooks
  • Man's ability to work in a tropical climate . Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne Opladen 1965. GoogleBooks
  • The influence of noises on the vegetative functions of humans . Springer, Wiesbaden. GoogleBooks

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 141/712.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The degree of buffering and its measurement .
  3. ↑ a b c d Irene Raehlmann: Ergonomics in National Socialism. An analysis of the sociology of science (2005)
  4. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 362
  5. ↑ a b Book accompanying the exhibition in the Dortmund Hoesch Museum (2008/09) ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dortmund.de
  6. ↑ Rita Seidel (GoogleBooks, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Gunther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehmann, Gunther Curt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German occupational physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Werneck
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1974
Place of death Dortmund