Heinrich Pfleiderer

Alfred Otto Heinrich Pfleiderer (born February 2, 1900 in Bondorf ; † December 31, 1973 on Sylt ) was a German bioclimatologist and university professor .

Life

Heinrich Pfleiderer was the son of the Stuttgart doctor Alfred Pfleiderer (* 1868; † 1945) and his wife Angelika (* 1867; † 1958). Heinrich's brother was the economist Otto Ernst Pfleiderer .

Pfleiderer graduated after completing his schooling at the universities of Tübingen and Jena , a study of medicine . Medical studies concluded Pfleiderer 1925 Promotion to Dr. med. in Jena, the title of his dissertation was “ About the subjective symptoms of gastric ulcer : Crit. Study of ulcer cases, in which the diagnosis by d. modern. Investigation methods or d. Surgical findings were ensured ". After completing his degree, he continued his education in Munich for six months in the fields of physical medicine and radiology . Pfleiderer then worked in a sanatorium in Bad Elster .

From 1931 he headed the bioclimatic research institute of the University of Kiel in Wyk auf Föhr . Pfleiderer's habilitation in “Medical Climatology and Physical Therapy” followed in 1933 in Kiel. From 1934 he worked as a lecturer at the University of Kiel. In 1935 he accompanied the "Forced Breathing" project of the German Research Foundation . At the medical testing and teaching department he examined "The climatobiology of extreme cold with special consideration of the general cooling in water". In April 1939 Pfleiderer took over the position of director at the central institute for bioclimatology and marine medicine at the University of Kiel in Westerland on Sylt, where he worked as an adjunct professor from 1941. Pfleiderer worked for the Nazi trade journal “Der Biologe”. Pfleiderer took part as a speaker at the conference on medical issues in distress at sea and winter death on October 26th and 27th, 1942, where Ernst Holzlöhner also gave a lecture on the "attempts at hypothermia" in the Dachau concentration camp .

After the end of the war, Pfleiderer remained professor at the University of Kiel, where he was made a regular associate professor in 1954 and a full professor in 1955. Pfleiderer worked on the editorial board for the journal Grenzgebiete der Medizin .

Heinrich Pfleiderer married the doctor Ilse Riemerschmid, daughter of the artist and architect Richard Riemerschmid from Munich , on May 16, 1926 in Cologne .

Offices

• President of the German Society for Balneology, Bioclimatology and Physical Therapy

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 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Pfleiderer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Norbert Kloten:  Pfleiderer, Otto Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 352 f. ( Digitized version ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Vita Professor Dr. Med. Heinrich Pfleiderer ( Memento of the original dated December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.pfleiderer-info.de 
3. ^ ^{A b c} Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 460
4. ^ Family Association Pfleiderer (ed.): The Pfleiderer book. The successors of the Pfleiderer family. 2010 (first edition: Stuttgart, 1937). ISBN 978-1-4457-1057-0 .