Hans Seel

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Hans Seel (born September 16, 1898 in Würzburg , † May 3, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German pharmacologist and toxicologist.

Life

The son of a chemist and senior pharmacist finished his school career at the humanistic Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium Stuttgart in 1916 with a secondary school diploma . He then joined the Württemberg Army (during the First World War ) , but had to end his intended career as an officer shortly afterwards due to illness. He began to study medicine and chemistry and from 1917 did military service again as a medic. After the end of the war he was released from the army.

Seel then resumed his studies, supplemented by the subject of veterinary medicine, and attended the universities of Tübingen, Munich, Stuttgart, Würzburg and Hanover. In 1919 he was reciprocated in the Corps Franconia Munich . In 1919/20 he belonged to the Freikorps Epp , with which he a. a. participated in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic and in the military clashes with the Red Ruhr Army . From 1921 to 1924 he was a member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . At the University of Würzburg he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD and then worked there as an assistant in pharmacology . In 1926 he moved to the Friedrichs University in Halle (Saale) , where he became the first assistant at the Pharmacological Institute. After his habilitation, Seel worked in Halle as a private lecturer in pharmacology, balneology and toxicology from 1928 . After a dispute about funding for a study trip to the United States , he went to the University of Hamburg in 1930 and headed the Institute for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology at the Hamburg-Eppendorf Clinic.

Seel had already joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party in 1931 and became a member of the Sturmabteilung in 1933 . He then joined the German Air Sports Association , the NS-Fliegerkorps (NSFK) as well as the NSV and the NS-Ärztebund in 1936 .

From 1933 he was employed at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin-Buch , where he was head of the pharmacology department. From 1935 he headed a research institute for clinical pharmacology in Hamburg and from 1938 in Berlin. During the Second World War in 1940 he was commissioned with research into pest control and soil disinfection. He belonged to the working group for drug research and drug therapy. From 1943 to 1945 he took over the post of director at the Pharmacological Institute of the Central Institute for Cancer Research Gut Nesselstedt of the University of Posen .

After the war he was denazified . He had his residence in Berlin-Friedenau (West Berlin), where he headed a private institute and worked mainly as a practicing doctor. From 1951 to 1959 he worked in the German Pharmacopoeia Commission (President Theodor Brugsch , Vice President Kurt Mothes ), which was set up at the instigation of the Ministry of Health of the GDR, as head of work; with this commission he was assigned to the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW). From 1953 he was a chair of the Berlin Society for Medicine and Pharmacy . At the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB) he worked as a lecturer from 1952 and was appointed professor with a teaching assignment for pharmacology there in 1954 , both of which were part-time; an appointment as professor with a full teaching assignment was rejected in 1957.

His research focus was on digitalis glycosides, vitamins, hormones, pesticides, pharmacology of medicinal plants, nutritional physiology, balneology and phosphorus, iron and iodine metabolism. He was the author of numerous specialist publications.

Fonts

  • Investigations into capsella bursa pastoris , 1923 ( medical dissertation at the University of Würzburg)
  • Pharmacological studies in the field of sterols , F. C. W. Vogel, Leipzig 1928 (habilitation thesis at the University of Halle) (In: Archive for experimental pathology and pharmacology, vol. 133)
  • Pharmacodynamics of German Medicinal Plants , Hippokrates-Verl., Stuttgart 1940 (together with Siegfried Flamm; Ludwig Kroeber)
  • Clinical pharmacology of cardiovascular diseases as the basis of individual therapy , Hippokrates-Verl., Stuttgart 1956

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 38 , 850.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, 2nd edition 2016, p. 576, ISBN 978-3-86820-311-0 .
  3. ^ DBE: Volume 9, Schlumberger – Thiersch. , Munich 2008, p. 367.
  4. ↑ Personnel file Humboldt University Berlin / UA PA Med.2: Seel, Hans
  5. ^ Reports on the German Pharmacopoeia Commission 1957 to 1961 in the respective yearbooks of the DAW
  6. ↑ Personal files Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / UA PA Med.2: Seel, Hans; Letter from the Rector to Seel dated December 2, 1957, vol. 2, sheet 19.
  7. ↑ Jürgen Falbe, Manfred Regitz (ed.): Chemistry. RÖMPP Lexicon . 10th edition. Volume 5: PI-S, 1996-1999, Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 1998, p. 1333.
personal data
SURNAME Seel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1961
Place of death Berlin