Helmut Mommsen

Helmut Mommsen (born November 19, 1896 in Königstein im Taunus , † July 12, 1983 ) was a German pediatrician and pioneer of naturopathy .

Life

He attended the humanistic grammar school in Lübeck and became a soldier in August 1914 after taking his Abitur prematurely. In 1918 he was seriously wounded in the war. From 1919 to 1923 he studied medicine in Rostock , Marburg and Freiburg im Breisgau . In Freiburg he did his doctorate on the pathogenesis of permanent increase in blood pressure . He trained as a pediatrician at the children's clinic at the University of Frankfurt / M. , where he completed his habilitation in 1928 and was appointed professor of paediatrics in 1935. In 1937 he settled as a pediatrician in Frankfurt / M. low.

In 1933 Mommsen joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.820.720), the SA and the National Socialist German Medical Association . In 1934 he became a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association . In 1939 he was called up for military service again, from 1942 to 1944 he was head of the children's clinic in Metz . From 1945 until 1982 he was in Frankfurt / M. active as a resident pediatrician. He died after a serious illness on July 12, 1983.

He was married to Hanna Mommsen (née Möller), the doctor in Frankfurt / M. was (* April 12, 1898, † July 16, 1977). His marriage to Hanna Mommsen resulted in a son, Jens Mommsen, and a daughter, Ute Franke-Mommsen. Helmut Mommsen comes from a family of scholars whose best-known member is the historian Theodor Mommsen , who was the first to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901.

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Helmut Mommsen is considered one of the pioneers of naturopathy and wholefood nutrition and was a pioneer of biological thinking based on the law of life. The use of the whole grain (whole grain), which is as common as it is natural today, was almost completely unknown in the 1960s and 1970s. His scientific interest was in microbiological therapy , which belongs to alternative medicine and has not been scientifically proven.

From him comes the expression “Bacteria are health pathogens to a higher degree than pathogens.” Like the Salem Children's Fund , Mommsen, who was able to experience his findings and therapies in Salem, had to endure numerous hostilities.

In addition to numerous books and specialist articles, Helmut Mommsen wrote very moving and thoughtful, but also funny poems. He maintained a close cooperation with the pioneers of healthy nutrition and lifestyle such as Hans Peter Rusch and his son Volker Rusch (Microbiological Institute Herborn, discoverer of "Symbioflor" was Dr. Artur Becker see also Hans Peter Rusch's book: Naturwissenschaft von Morgen) as well to the doctors Max Bircher-Benner , Max Otto Bruker , Julius Hackethal and many more.

Also with the bacteriologist and nutritionist Werner Kollath (1892-1970) he felt strengthened in many ways in his intention, who said again and again: "Leave all food as natural as possible".

Most of Mommsen's publications were published in the “Reform-Rundschau” magazine and in other well-known journals.

Cooperation with Salem

Since 1971 a friendship has developed with Salem and the founder and director, Gottfried Müller. Helmut Mommsen once wrote:

“I thank all the parents who trusted me. This trust gave me the strength to uncompromisingly follow the path prescribed for me, despite all hostility. I would also like to thank the founder and director of the Salem Children's Fund in Stadtsteinach / Upper Franconia, who gave me the opportunity to apply my principles of health management to the children living there. "

The integration of disabled people in our society was also very important to him.

Quotes and poems by Helmut Mommsen:

"We humans cannot go back to nature, but we humans can think and act consciously in our nutrition according to the motto: Forward to nature."

From the foreword to the Salem cookbook

Works and literature

• H. Mommsen: "Help for the sick child - medical advice on the care and treatment of sick babies, toddlers and school children", Verlag Reform-Rundschau Bad Homburg, 1st edition 1965
• Brotherhood Salem: "The Salem Cookbook", foreword by H. Mommsen, Salem Book Service, 10th edition 2008, Stadtsteinach
• H. Mommsen: "This is how my child stays healthy! - Health care and disease prevention, advice from a doctor to parents and educators", Karl F. Haug Verlag, 1976, Heidelberg
• "Healthy children through wholesome food - Proven nutritional advice and recipes for babies, toddlers and school children", Verlag Reform-Rundschau Bad Homburg
• Ute Franke-Mommsen "Healthy children through lively whole foods: Proven nutritional advice and recipes for babies, toddlers and school children. - With menus and recipes by Helmut Mommsen and Ute Franke-Mommsen", September 2002

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jörg Melzer: Whole Foods Nutrition: Dietetics, Naturopathy, National Socialism, Social Claims. Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08278-6 , p. 306 f.
2. ^ Reimund Wagner: Microbiological Therapeutics ( Memento from December 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Vital substances - diseases of civilization . Medici-Verlag, 1966 ( google.de [accessed December 13, 2017]).
4. ↑ Martina Kaller-Dietrich: Power over stomachs: making food instead of managing scarcity: households in a southern Mexican village . Promedia, 2002, ISBN 978-3-85371-190-3 ( google.de [accessed December 13, 2017]).
5. ↑ Helmut Mommsen, Hans Peter Rusch: The flora renovation of milk: Volksgesundheitl. Meaning u. clinical effect of pasteurized u. again bacteria-inoculated cow's milk . Carl, 1954 ( google.de [accessed December 13, 2017]).
6. ↑ Martin Adler: Textbook Naturopathic Treatment: 106 tables . Georg Thieme Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8304-5333-8 ( google.de [accessed on December 13, 2017]).
7. ^ Rainer Stange, Claus Leitzmann: Diet and fasting as therapy . Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-662-54475-4 ( google.de [accessed on December 13, 2017]).