Helmut Selbach

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Helmut Selbach (born May 31, 1909 in Cologne ; † January 3, 1987 ) was a German neurologist , psychiatrist and university professor .

Life

Helmut Selbach was the son of the businessman Paul Selbach and his wife Julie, née Abi. After graduating from high school in Linz am Rhein , he studied medicine at the universities of Bonn and Würzburg from 1929 onwards . After completing his studies, he was approved in 1935 and in 1936 in Cologne as a Dr. med. PhD .

Selbach had been a member of the SA since 1934 and the NSDAP since 1937 . Furthermore, he belonged to the NSV , the NS-Dozentbund and the NS-Ärztebund .

From 1936 he was an assistant at the University Clinic for the Nervous System in Cologne, where in 1937/38, funded by the DFG , he researched the triggering of epileptic seizures using Cardiazol . In 1938 he moved from Cologne to the Berlin University Neurological Clinic. In Berlin in 1939 he participated in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin-Buch under Hugo Spatz in the DFG-funded research project "Buffering power of brain and liver tissue under the influence of insulin and cardiazole". After his habilitation in 1940, he became a private lecturer and senior physician at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Berlin, run by Max de Crinis .

From 1941 he headed the chemistry department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research . With Alois Eduard Kornmüller (1905–1968) he conducted research in 1941 as part of the DFG research project on aviation medicine with the title "Tests on the influence of anoxemia (lack of oxygen in the blood) on the cell tissue metabolism of the cerebral cortex and on the effects of negative pressure". Furthermore, he researched in 1942 on "blood composition and the blood protein content or its shifts under the effects of electric shock".

Grave of Helmut Selbach in the St.-Annen-Kirchhof in Berlin-Dahlem

After the end of the war, Selbach moved to the Marburg University Neurological Clinic, where he was appointed adjunct professor in 1949. From 1950 until his retirement in 1976 he was a full professor at the Free University of Berlin and was director of the Psychiatric and Neurological University Clinic.

From 1953 to 1971 he was chairman of the Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Neurology and since 1974 honorary member there. From 1975 he published the journal Pharmako-Psychiatrie .

Selbach had been married to the psychologist and doctor Ottilie Constanze (1914-2001), née Redslob (daughter of Edwin Redslob ), since 1948 .

Helmut Selbach died in 1987 at the age of 77. His grave is in the St.-Annen-Kirchhof in Berlin-Dahlem . He rests there next to his wife and their parents.

Fonts

  • Results of guanidine research , Bonn 1935 (medical dissertation at the University of Bonn)
  • Physico-chemical investigations on the question of the increase in brain volume (brain swelling and brain edema) , Springer, Berlin 1940
  • The depressive syndrome: boarding school. Symposium , Berlin on 16. u. Feb. 17, 1968 / Ed. By Hanns Hippius u. Helmut Selbach, Urban u. Schwarzenberg, Munich, Berlin, Vienna 1969.

literature

Web links

Commons : Helmut Selbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Who is who? : the German Who's Who, Volume 22, Schmidt-Römhild, 1983, p. 1140
  2. ↑ Eberhard Gabriel and Wolfgang Neugebauer : From forced sterilization to murder. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. Part II. Böhlau, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-99325-X , p. 416
  3. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 578
  4. ↑ Chairwoman of the Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Neurology 1867 - 2013 at http://www.bgpn.de
  5. ↑ Honorary members of the BGPN at http://www.bgpn.de/ehrenverbindungen.php
  6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 564-565.
personal data
SURNAME Selbach, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist, psychiatrist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 3rd January 1987