Hans Eppinger junior

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Hans Eppinger junior (born January 5, 1879 in Prager Neustadt ; † September 25, 1946 in Vienna ) was an Austrian internist and university professor in Freiburg im Breisgau , Cologne and Vienna.

Life

The son of Hans Eppinger senior was after his medical training in Graz and Strasbourg, which he received in 1903 with a doctorate as Dr. med. graduated in Graz, assistant at the local medical clinic. From 1908 he worked as an assistant under Carl Harko von Noorden (1858–1944) and Karel Frederik Wenckebach (1864–1940) in Vienna. In 1909 he completed his habilitation in internal medicine and in 1918 became an associate professor. In 1926 he received a call to the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, and in 1930 to Cologne. From 1933 he was professor and director of the Clinic for Internal Diseases at the General Hospital in Vienna. In 1936 Eppinger was called to Moscow to deal with the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin .

Eppinger had been a member of the NSDAP since 1938 . He was the mentor of the hepatologist Hans Popper . From 1943 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the authorized representative for health care Karl Brandt . In 1940 Eppinger was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Eppinger, whose interest was particularly in the research of liver diseases and circulatory disorders and who created the so-called "permeability pathology", was significantly involved in experiments with inmates, predominantly Sinti and Roma , in the Dachau concentration camp, together with Wilhelm Beiglböck , in which the aim was to determine how people were can survive best in distress . The victims were divided into four different groups, who were given either no water at all, pure salt water, salt water with a fresh water taste or salt water with a reduced salt content. This led to extreme thirst, cramps and delirium in the test subjects - even their deaths were accepted approvingly.

In 1945, Eppinger, although relieved of his position as director of the Vienna Clinic, became a medical officer of the Soviet high command in Austria.

Eppinger was supposed to answer for his war crimes as part of the Nuremberg Doctors Trial, but immediately before the trial he evaded interrogation by suicide using a poison capsule. With his death the judicial investigation against him ended. Beiglböck was convicted by the court.

In 1976, the Euclides D crater on the moon was named after Eppinger to honor his contributions to the research of liver diseases and circulatory disorders. The designation was canceled in 2002 by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN), a working group of the International Astronomical Union .

Eppinger as namesake

Cauchois-Eppinger-Frugoni syndrome, Frugoni's syndrome Chronic recurrent inflammation and the like Thrombosis of the portal vein , possibly also the splenic vein; leads to spleno- or hepatosplenomegaly , anemia, leuko- u. Thrombopenia, possibly to esophageal varices, ascites, fever, skin u. Digestive tract bleeding. - see. Budd-Chiari Syndrome

Publications

  • with Leo Hess: vagotonia. Clinical study . Berlin: Hirschwald, 1910 ( collection of clinical treatises on pathology and therapy of metabolic and nutritional disorders. H. 9/10)
  • The hepato-lienal diseases. (Pathology of the interrelationships between the spleen, liver and bone marrow). Ent .: Ranzi, Egon: The operations on the spleen for hepato-linear diseases. Berlin: Springer, 1920
  • About the asthma cardiale. Attempt at peripheral circulatory pathology. Berlin: Springer, 1924
  • The diseases of the liver, including the hepatolic affections. Leipzig: Thieme, 1926
  • The failure of the cycle. Dynamic and energetic causes. Berlin: Springer, 1927
  • Serous inflammation. Vienna: Springer, 1935
  • The liver diseases. General u. special pathology u. Therapy of the liver. Vienna: Springer, 1937
  • The permeability pathology as the study of the onset of disease. Vienna: Springer, 1949

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptismal register of the Roman Catholic collegiate monastery St. Apollinaris in Prager Neustadt Volume XL, folio 394 ( online ).
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 138
  3. ^ Paul Weindling: "Our own, Austrian way '". The sea water drinking experiments in Dachau 1944 , in: Yearbook Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (2017), pp. 133–177
personal data
SURNAME Eppinger, Hans junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian internist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1946
Place of death Vienna