Heinrich Gottron

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Heinrich Adolf Gottron (born March 10, 1890 in Oppenheim , † June 23, 1974 in Mainz ) was a German dermatologist and university professor .

Life

Gottron studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg , Berlin , Munich , Heidelberg , Leipzig and Bonn . In 1916 he received his doctorate . In the First World War he served as a military doctor, his last rank was that of a senior physician .

In 1919 he went to the Charité in Berlin , where he completed his habilitation in 1930 with a thesis on majocchis purpura and was there from 1933 an adjunct professor.

On October 1, 1935, Gottron took over the chair of dermatology at the University of Breslau , which under Albert Neisser and Joseph Jadassohn had established itself as one of the leading dermatological clinics worldwide. His predecessor Max Jessner had been forced to resign because of his Jewish descent. In 1939 he became chief physician of the dermatological university clinic there.

Gottron joined the NSDAP in 1937 . He belonged to the SA reserve and the advisory board of the German Society for Constitution Research, which was established in November 1942 . In 1943 Gottron was Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Breslau and congratulated Ferdinand Sauerbruch on being awarded the Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords . From 1944 he was also a member of the scientific advisory board of the authorized representative for health care Karl Brandt (accompanying physician Adolf Hitler).

From August 1, 1946 until his retirement in 1961, Gottron was Professor of Dermatology at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen , where he was chief physician of the dermatology clinic. He was also a co-founder of the Society for Constitutional Research in 1949 and was one of the most important dermatologists of the post-war period.

The Arndt Gottron Syndrome ( scleromyxedema ) is named after him and his teacher Georg Arndt . The Erythrokeratodermia progressiva symmetrica , Familial Acrogeria (Gottron syndrome) and other diseases were named Gottrons name.

Honors

The Acrogeria Gottron (Gottron Syndrome) , which he described for the first time in 1941, and five other skin diseases were named after him .

Fonts

  • Contributions in: Joseph Jadassohn (Ed.): Handbook for skin and sexually transmitted diseases. 23 volumes. Springer, Heidelberg 1927–1934.
  • Contributions in: Leopold doctor, Karl Zieler (Ed.): The skin and sexually transmitted diseases: A comprehensive presentation for the practice. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna 1934.
  • with Walther Schönfeld , dermatology and venereology. Including occupational diseases, dermatological cosmetics and andrology. 5 volumes in 10 sub-volumes. Thieme, Stuttgart 1958-1970.
  • Non-inflammatory dermatoses I. Springer, Heidelberg 1963.
  • Inheritance of skin diseases. Springer, Heidelberg 1966.
  • Non-inflammatory dermatoses II. Springer, Heidelberg 1969.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Volker Wendt: Heinrich A. Gottron - life and work. Scheffler, Lübeck 1980.
  • University archive Tübingen, holdings signature UAT 615, Heinrich Gottron, estate splitter. (Scientific work in inventory 269 - Dermatology Clinic)
  • Albrecht Scholz, Thomas Barth, Anna-Sophia Pappai and Axel Wacker: The fate of the teaching staff of the Medical Faculty in Breslau after the expulsion in 1945/46. In: Würzburger medical history reports 24, 2005, pp. 497-533, here: pp. 514 and 526.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albrecht Scholz, Thomas Barth, Anna-Sophia Pappai and Axel Wacker: The fate of the teaching staff of the Medical Faculty in Breslau after the expulsion in 1945/46. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 24, 2005, pp. 497-533, here: p. 514.
  2. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; used: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 422 f.
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 193 f.
  4. ↑ Werner Gottwald: Breslauer Doctors and their meaning for the medical terminology. In: Würzburger medical history reports 8, 1990, pp. 289–294; here: p. 289 f.
  5. ^ University archive Tübingen
personal data
SURNAME Gottron, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gottron, Adolf Heinrich; Gottron, Heinrich Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Oppenheim
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1974
Place of death Mainz