Heinz von Diringshofen
Heinz von Diringshofen (born January 22, 1900 in Magdeburg , † May 5, 1967 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German aeronautical physician. Diringshofen researched relevant aeronautical investigation techniques.
Life
Diringshofen, son of a Prussian officer, was a soldier in the German air force from 1917 towards the end of the First World War . After the war, graduated Diringshofen 1919-1925 a study of medicine at the universities of Berlin and Munich , he with promotion to Dr. med. completed. He then worked as a ship's doctor at HAPAG and from 1927 as a medical officer in the Reichswehr . From then on, Diringshofen did research in the field of aviation medicine and from 1929 was employed in the aviation department of the Reichswehr Ministry. From 1930 Diringshofen conducted research at the Physiological Institute of the University of Würzburg , “where he examined the effects of centrifugal force on blood circulation and breathing on himself in a test flight”.
After completing his habilitation in 1933 , he worked as a lecturer at the universities of Berlin and Frankfurt. From 1934 Diringshofen headed the medical test troop in Jüterbog with the rank of medical officer and a year later the aviation medicine laboratory there. From 1939 Diringshofen was an adjunct professor at the University of Frankfurt , where he also directed the medical research facility for mechanical influences.
During the Second World War Diringshofen was deployed from 1940 to 1944 in the II. Fliegerkorps and as a field air doctor. From 1942 he held the rank of senior staff doctor. Diringshofen, who devoted himself to research on oxygen deficiency and centrifugal force, took part in the conference on medical issues in distress and winter death on October 26th and 27th, 1942, where a lecture was also given on the "hypothermic experiments" in the Dachau concentration camp . Diringshofen intended to habilitate the concentration camp doctor Sigmund Rascher in 1943/44 , but this project was unsuccessful.
After the end of the war, Diringshofen was briefly in captivity. After a phase of unemployment, Diringshofen worked as an internist and company doctor and continued to teach at the University of Frankfurt. Diringshofen followed a call to Argentina in 1951 , where he worked as a consultant at the Aeromedical Institute in Buenos Aires until 1956 and carried out negative pressure tests. He was later a lecturer at the University of Munich from 1964 to 1967. Diringshofen co-founded the German Society for Aerospace Medicine and was also its first president.
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 .
- Viktor Harsch: Heinz von Diringshofen (1900-1967): a life for aviation medicine. Rethra, Neubrandenburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-937394-00-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz von Diringshofen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Münchner Ärztliche Advertisements, Issue 21 of October 14, 2006. Published by the Medical Circle and District Association Munich, corporation under public law, ISSN 0723-7103 B 45928. (pdf; 2.6 MB)
- FEDERAL ARCHIVE - Central database for estates In: nachlassdatenbank.de . Retrieved on August 30, 2016 (information about the estate of Heinz von Diringshofen in the Institute for City History Frankfurt).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Münchner Ärztliche Advertisements, issue 21 of October 14, 2006, p. 5
- ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 112f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Diringshofen, Heinz von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German aviation physician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5th 1967 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |