Hans Theodor Schreus

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Hans Theodor Schreus (born September 10, 1892 in Hückeswagen , † January 27, 1970 in Düsseldorf ) was a German dermatologist , radiologist and university professor who was rector of the Düsseldorf Medical Academy from 1943 to 1945 .

Life

Origin, studies and professorship

Schreus was the son of the medical council and radiation therapist Theodor Schreus (1861-1948), a doctor who worked in Krefeld as chief physician and head of a radiation clinic. After graduating , Schreus studied medicine at the universities of Heidelberg , Bonn , Kiel , Munich and Halle . In 1919 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He then worked for a short time as an assistant doctor at the gynecological clinic in Munich and from 1919 at the University Dermatology Clinic in Bonn, where he qualified as a professor in 1921 in dermatology, syphilidology and radiology . In the meantime he had completed two years of dermatological training in Berlin and Paris. In 1925 he moved from Bonn to the Dermatology Clinic in Düsseldorf, where he became an associate professor in 1926.

In 1930 Schreus was appointed to the chair for dermatology, venereology and radiology at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf , which he would hold for thirty years. At the same time he became director of the dermatological clinic of the city hospitals. Since the beginning of the 1920s, he has devoted himself to the standardization of radiation therapy and physiological-chemical issues. He introduced the Salvarsan saturation treatment and, from 1942, researched the zinc-chlorine rapid etching of basaliomas .

Period of National Socialism and World War II

After the " seizure of power " Schreus joined the NSDAP in early May 1933 and also became a member of the NS-Ärztebund , the NS-Reichskriegerbund and the NSV . However, he was not considered a staunch National Socialist. In addition to his other functions, he was commissioned to combat lupus in the Düsseldorf administrative district . Herta Oberheuser was an assistant doctor at his clinic from April 1938 to November 1939 , and from 1941 to 1943 she worked as a camp doctor in the Ravensbrück concentration camp . There she took part in sulfonamide experiments on female inmates and is said to have had conversations with the sulfonamide specialist Schreus in his clinic, but nothing is known about the content. During the Second World War he was a senior consultant dermatologist in the Air Force . From April 1943 to 1945 he was rector of the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf. Scholz et al. note that Schreus, along with Josef Vonkennel and Heinrich Gottron, formed the “top scientific trio of German dermatology during the National Socialist era ”.

post war period

After the end of the war, Schreus was suspended from his post as director and from the university office in October 1945 by order of the British military administration. Despite many exonerating testimony, his denazification was delayed and he was therefore only able to return to his chair in November 1948 and take up the post of director again. Schreus did a great job of rebuilding dermatology in Germany - in particular due to the further development of radiation therapy and research into operative dermatology, which resulted in practical inventions. The development of the Derpopan radiation device and the introduction of high-speed grinding treatment go back to him. He was a co-founder of the "Society for Aesthetic Medicine". Schreus retired in 1960 .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Dosing with the Fürstenauschen intensimeter: In addition to contributions to the knowledge of the constancy of today's X-ray tubes , Gräfe & Sillem, Hamburg 1919 (from: Advances in the fields of X-rays. Vol. 27, also a dissertation at the University of Bonn)
  • The basics of the dosimetry of X-rays , post- doctoral thesis 1921
  • X-ray treatment in dermatology , Zorohen, Bonn 1922
  • Radiation treatment of carcinomas: 1 , Gebr. Tönnes, Düsseldorf 1929
  • Grinding and milling the skin , Hüthig, Heidelberg 1956
  • Medical cosmetics: overview of d. aesthetic medicine after lectures b. Düsseldorf Symposium 1955 / negotiation report , red. by HT Schreus, Hüthig, Heidelberg 1956
  • Salvarsan - Review and Outlook. In: Dermatologische Wochenschrift. Volume 138, 1958, pp. 1353-1359
  • WC Röntgen - discoverer of new rays: A critical essay, Verl. Zentralblatt f. Social security, welfare, etc. Supply , Düsseldorf 1964 (social policy, social law, social medicine: 2)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Albrecht Scholz, Karl Holubar, Günter Burg (ed.): History of German-speaking Dermatology , German Dermatological Society 2009, p. 103
  2. ↑ a b DBE: Volume 9, Schlumberger – Thiersch. , Munich 2008, p. 213
  3. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 560
  4. ↑ Albrecht Scholz, Karl Holubar, Günter Burg (ed.): History of German-speaking Dermatology , German Dermatological Society 2009, pp. 130f.
  5. ^ A b Albrecht Scholz, Karl Holubar, Günter Burg (ed.): History of German-speaking Dermatology , German Dermatological Society 2009, pp. 142f.
  6. ↑ Albrecht Scholz, Karl Holubar, Günter Burg (ed.): History of German-speaking Dermatology , German Dermatological Society 2009, p. 186
  7. ^ Member entry by Hans Schreus at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 23, 2016.
  8. ↑ The X-ray plaque, its history and its wearer
  9. ↑ Westermanns Monatshefte , issues 7–12, 1961, p. 112
personal data
SURNAME Schreus, Hans Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist, radiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Hückeswagen
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1970
Place of death Dusseldorf