Hans Grimm (doctor)

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Hans (Johannes) Grimm (born February 7, 1910 in Zwickau ; † April 1, 1995 in Berlin ) was a German doctor, anthropologist and sports medicine specialist .

life and work

Grimm was a half- orphan from his fourth birthday and grew up in financially modest circumstances because his father - employed as a council expedition to the city - had died early. Grimm attended school up to the upper secondary level , then began an apprenticeship as a locksmith and was trained as a chemical engineer at the engineering school in Zwickau from 1927 to 1929 . In 1931 he became unemployed.

In 1932 he took an immaturity examination and was admitted to study biology, which he began in 1933 at the University of Halle . In 1936 he moved to the University of Kiel . In January 1937 he was granted permission to study medicine on the basis of a second immaturity examination . Since the summer semester of 1937 he was also enrolled as a medical student in Kiel, then in Breslau. Supervised by Adolf Remane , whom he followed when he moved from Halle to Kiel, he received his doctorate in 1938 with a thesis on the subject of skull proportions and absolute size in the primate series at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Kiel. rer. nat.

1934 Grimm suggested a joint work of the medical group of the University of Halle, which then carried out trips to the Batschka four summers in a row . The anthology with the results of the student group, to which Gabriele Wülker also belonged, emerged as a Reich winners work from the Reich professional competition of the German students 1936/37 in the category " Race and Health Care".

From the summer semester of 1938 to the second trimester of 1940, he was an unplanned assistant at the institute of Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt in Breslau, reporting to Ilse Schwidetzky , who carried out an anthropological regional study of Silesia .

In 1940 he was appointed head of the research center "Silesians all over the world", which was a branch of the main department of migration research and clan studies of the German Institute for Foreign Affairs in Stuttgart. The focus of his own publications and numerous reviews were developmental biology and population history studies of ethnic Germans in south-east Europe , which appeared primarily in the yearbook Südostforschungen of the Südostinstitut München .

Before he passed the Physikum in October 1939 , he had already been called up for the medical service of the Wehrmacht and in 1940 served as a medical sergeant . A longer time off gave him the opportunity to defend a medical dissertation in Breslau in 1943 on studies on puberty among resettled women from northern Bukovina : Contribution to the question of menarche and the environment . In the Silesian resettlement camps, around 1200 resettlers were recorded by families in spring 1942 out of the total number of 42,400 resettlers from northern Bukovina. Grimm's dissertation is based on a sample of around 500 girls and women. “As far as is known, his research results were not misused to legitimize Nazi population policy. In contrast to quite a few of his colleagues, he held back politically during the war, ”says Rainer Karlsch .

In 1944, Grimm was transferred as a doctor to the Army High Command's special group for disease control . He was released from internment at the end of the war in Prague in autumn 1945.

He then worked as an assistant doctor at the University Children's Clinic in Halle, and then until 1951 as head of the youth medical department at the Halle health department. After completing his habilitation in 1950 in the field of "social medicine" with the subject of an examination of the physical development of the enlarged thyroid gland in young girls: A contribution to the knowledge of the so-called post - war goiter , he took on the role of a senior youth doctor and director of the social hygiene department at the Central Institute for Social Affairs - and industrial hygiene in Berlin. This was followed by the appointment to professor with teaching assignment for anthropology (1951), the appointment to professor with chair for social hygiene (1959) and appointment as director of the Anthropological Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin . In addition, he gave lectures on human biology (including ancestry and osteology ) for students of psychology , prehistory and early history, ethnology and for sports students .

Hans Grimm was one of the first contributors to sports medicine in the GDR . He was a participant of the 1st Sports Medical Conference in 1951 and the founding meeting of the Working Group for Sports Medicine (1954). From 1955 to 1957 he was president of this later Society for Sports Medicine of the GDR . During his term of office in Weimar in 1955, the last all-German conference of sports doctors took place on the subject of sport as a means of maintaining health . The internal German demarcation and the Cold War made such events possible again only after 1989.

His extensive scientific work is characterized by developmental biology, sports medicine-hygienic and sports anthropological studies on the influence of physical exercise on the growing organism, on development diagnosis and on biotypology in sport, but also on industrial anthropology and the history of science in anthropology, in particular through his contributions to the biographies of Felix von Luschans and Rudolf Virchows . More than a hundred dissertations were written under his supervision, mainly by medical professionals, but also by natural scientists and prehistorians. Five of his former doctoral students have been appointed professors. From 1959 to 1989 Grimm was editor of the magazine Ärztliche Jugendkunde . Since 1968 he was also part of the editorial board of the archaeological journal Excavations and Finds .

In 1943 he published his first article about his idea of using the documents of the German National Academic Foundation for an investigation into the inheritance of giftedness . In 1969, his doctoral student Volkmar Weiss began to translate the suggestion into an empirical study, with the best of the Young Mathematicians' Olympics as the starting point for data collection and later for tests .

Grimm was also involved in nature conservation and published observations as an ornithologist .

literature

  • Hans Grimm: Youth and Sport. In: A. Arnold (Ed.): Textbook of Sports Medicine. JA Barth, Leipzig 1956, 2nd edition, 1960, pp. 447-483.
  • Hans Grimm: Outline of constitutional biology and anthropometry. 3rd edition, People and Health, Berlin 1966.
  • W. Hollmann, K. Tittel: History of the German sports medicine. Druckhaus Gera, 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811758-2-0 .
  • K. Tittel: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. H. Grimm died. In: German magazine for sports medicine. Volume 46, 1995, No. 6, p. 333.
  • Dieter Hoffmann :  Grimm, Johannes . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the personal file in the university archive of the Humboldt University in Berlin, he calls himself Johannes for both doctorates and his habilitation thesis , as well as in some of his publications.
  2. ↑ H. Grimm: skull proportions and absolute size in the primate series . In: Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde and the entire research on people 9, 1939, pp. 103-131, with attached curriculum vitae in the specimen copy of the German National Library
  3. ↑ H. Grimm: The population movement in Bukin and Bačko Dobro Polje - a study on the population biology of two Batschka communities . In: Ethnological studies in the German settlement area in the southern Slavic Batschka . JF Lehmanns Verlag , Munich 1938, pp. 87-104 (= Young Science 3)
  4. ↑ Dirk Preuß: Anthropologist and explorer: Biography and anthropology of Egon Freiherr von Eickstedts (1892-1965) . Utz, Munich 2009, p. 362
  5. ^ H. Grimm: Silesian emigrants in the second half of the 18th century according to the "Wiener Kartei" . In: Deutsche Monatshefte: Journal for the past and present of East Germany 9, Issue 1/2, 1942
  6. ↑ Dirk Preuß: Anthropologist and explorer: Biography and anthropology of Egon Freiherr von Eickstedts (1892-1965) . Utz, Munich 2009, p. 132
  7. ↑ H. Grimm: The importance of migration research and clan studies for the biology of foreign Germanism . In: Yearbook of the German Foreign Institute for Migration Research and Family Studies 6, 1941/42, pp. 1–11
  8. ^ Klaus Popa: Grimm, Hans . In: Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa (PDF; 443 kB), pp. 35–38
  9. ↑ H. Grimm: Investigations into puberty among resettlers from northern Bukovina : Contribution to the question of menarche and the environment . In: Journal for human inheritance and constitution theory 27, 1943, pp. 39–68, with attached curriculum vitae in the specimen copy of the German National Library
  10. ↑ Demography in the GDR. Social and theoretical aspects of the development of a scientific discipline , Chapter 2.1 .: Aborted and interrupted research: Erna Weber and Hans Grimm , Institute for Applied Demography , Berlin 2007, p. 32
  11. ↑ Documents from the Wehrmacht information center , personal research by Dr. Johannes Grimm
  12. ↑ H. Grimm: The use of the term race in the history of scientific anthropology . In: S. Kirschke (Ed.): Fundamentals of the history of biological anthropology . Martin Luther University, Halle / Saale 1990, pp. 28–43
  13. ^ Ingrid Wustmann: In memoriam Hans Grimm . In: Treatises and reports of the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden 49, 1996, pp. 19–26
  14. ^ Holle Greil, Ingrid Wustmann: In memoriam Hans Grimm . In: Anthropologischer Anzeiger 54, 1966, pp. 163–166
  15. ^ Hans Grimm 65 Years in Excavations and Finds - Archaeological Reports and Information , Volume 20, 1975, Issue 1, Akademie-Verlag Berlin, page 1
  16. ↑ H. Grimm: On the genetic biology of mathematical talent . In: Erbarzt 11, 1943, pp. 37–42
  17. ↑ Ulli Kulke : Hereditary Intelligence in the GDR , The Axis of the Good , March 3, 2011
  18. ↑ 1980 awarded the Johann Friedrich Naumann plaque for outstanding achievements in the field of ornithology.
personal data
SURNAME Grimm, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grimm, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, anthropologist and sports medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1995
Place of death Berlin