Heinrich Ruge

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Heinrich Gustav Sophus Ruge (born February 28, 1896 in Berlin , † September 19, 1977 in Kiel ) was a German military hygienist, tropical medicine and university professor .

Life

Heinrich Ruge was the son of the tropical medicine doctor, later Kiel university professor and naval general staff doctor Reinhold Ruge (1862-1936) and his wife Sarah, née von Zahn. He completed his school career in 1914 with the final exam at a high school in Kiel. He then completed a medical degree from 1914 to 1918 at the universities of Breslau, Jena, Lemberg, Leipzig, Tübingen and Kiel, which he interrupted after the outbreak of the First World War because of military service from 1914 to 1918. He passed the medical state examination in Jena and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD .

After completing his studies, he joined the Reichsmarine as a junior doctor . From 1926 to 1929 he worked as an assistant at the Hamburg Institute for Marine and Tropical Diseases . He was promoted to naval senior staff doctor in 1931 and to naval doctor in 1938. From 1931 to 1940 he was head of the hygienic department of the Sanitary Department of the Baltic Sea Marine Station in Kiel. In addition, after completing his habilitation in tropical hygiene and tropical medicine in 1932, he worked from 1937 as an associate professor for tropical medicine and from 1939 as an adjunct professor for tropical hygiene at the University of Kiel .

During the Second World War , from April 1941 he was employed as an advisory hygienist in Romania at Air Fleet Doctor 4. According to the former Buchenwald prisoner Eugen Kogon , Ruge conducted an exchange of correspondence on human experiments with the head of the typhus experiment department of the hygiene institute of the Waffen-SS in Buchenwald concentration camp .

His main focus was on malaria , Chagas disease , relapsing fever and hepatitis .

From 1944 to 1949 he was a Soviet prisoner of war. After his release he took over a professorship at the University of Erlangen in 1950 and worked for the World Health Organization in Egypt from 1951 . From 1953 he taught tropical hygiene again at the University of Kiel. He was married to Käthe, nee Günther. The couple had a child.

Works

  • Case report on the pathological anatomy of the symmetrical enlargement of the lens nucleus in CO poisoning , Hirschfeld, Berlin 1921, from: Archiv f. Psychiatr. u. Nervous disease Vol. 64 (also medical dissertation at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena 1921)
  • Diet in the Navy , ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1927 (belongs to: Publications in the field of naval sanitation, special issue)
  • The fight against venereal diseases in the German Navy with esp. of the years 1920-1925: Summary overview of d. Years 1874-1925 with 40 tab. U. 17 [penetrated] curves , ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1927 (belongs to: Publications from the field of marine medical services; H. 13)
  • 25 years of malaria treatment at the Institute for Ship Diseases and Tropical Diseases: Observation on 4924 cases , Joh. Ambr. Barth, Leipzig 1928 (belongs to: Archives for Ship and Tropical Hygiene, Pathology and Therapy of Exotic Diseases: Supplements; Vol. 32. Suppl. 1)
  • The behavior of the air temperature and humidity on a modern cruiser in the tropics , Mittler, Berlin 1932, In: Publications from the areas of the marine sanitary system; H. 22 (also habilitation thesis Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1932)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 514
  2. ↑ Development tape for microfiche edition: With an introduction by Angelika Ebbinghaus on the history of the process and short biographies of the process involved . S. 138. Karsten Linne (Ed.): The Nuremberg Medical Process 1946/47. Verbal transcripts, prosecution and defense material, sources on the environment. Published by Klaus Dörner , German edition, microfiche edition, Munich 1999 on behalf of the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century
personal data
SURNAME Ruge, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruge, Heinrich Gustav Sophus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military hygienist, tropical medicine specialist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 19th September 1977
Place of death Kiel