Herbert Assmann

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Herbert Assmann

Herbert Assmann (born November 25, 1882 in Danzig ; † February 27, 1950 in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) ) was a German internist and university professor .

Life

Assmann's parents was born as the son of the District Court Councilor Edwin Assmann (1834–1890) and his wife Anna Emma Laura geb. Steimmig (1859-1934). He studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg , Munich and Königsberg . In Konigsberg he was in 1905 when Richard Pfeiffer for Dr. med. PhD . In the same year went to the University of Geneva for training in pathological anatomy to Max Askanazy . The following year as an assistant at Ludwig Lichtheim in Königsberg taught him the basics of internal medicine until he switched to the Dortmund municipal hospitals with Lichtheim's senior physician Walter Rindfleisch . He completed his habilitation in internal medicine at the University of Leipzig in 1913 .

In the same year the university hired him as a private lecturer in internal medicine. Promoted to unscheduled associate professor in 1919 , he was appointed scheduled associate professor for healing methodology two years later. In 1921 he drew attention to himself when he published a textbook on X-ray diagnostics of internal diseases at FCW Vogel, which appeared in six editions until 1949/50. His main focus was on the "early infiltration of tuberculosis". From 1927 he held the post of full professor for special pathology and therapy at Askanazy as a result of his good pathological training . Since then he has also headed the Leipzig Polyclinic. In 1931 he moved to the Königsberg University as a full professor of internal medicine. There he was also appointed head of the Medical University Clinic, which was newly established in 1928. His neurological Thursday course was very popular with the students. In 1932 Assmann was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

In 1933, what had been a good collegial relationship changed abruptly: all Jewish employees were dismissed without notice in the first half of 1933 in accordance with the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (April 7, 1933), regardless of whether they were civil servants or employees. When, in connection with the National Socialist book burnings , a lecture was given to students about the harmful influence of Jewish literature on university life, Assmann showed courage when he was "the only one who demonstratively got up and went out in the front row" when he vilified Paul Ehrlich .

In 1945 Assmann left Königsberg after the university was dissolved. From that year he worked as the head of the internal department of the Evangelical Hospital in Oldenburg. He died there in 1950 at the age of 67.

He was particularly concerned with X-ray diagnostics of internal organs. He made important discoveries in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis .

On August 14, 1909, he married the chemist's daughter Eleonore Steimmig , born in 1888, in Königsberg . The marriage resulted in three sons and two daughters, including the future public prosecutor and bank lawyer Wolfgang Assmann (father of Wolfgang Reimer Assmann ).

Works

  • Tests on the value of ethyl alcohol, especially alkaline alcohol, as a disinfectant in bacteriological sections. Kümmel, Königsberg 1905 (dissertation, University of Königsberg, 1905).
  • Experiences with the x-ray examination of the lungs with special consideration of anatomical controls. With a foreword by Adolf von Strümpell . Fischer, Jena 1914 (habilitation thesis, University of Leipzig, 1913).
  • X-ray diagnosis of internal diseases. Vogel, Leipzig 1921; from the 2nd edition 1922 in two volumes as The clinical X-ray diagnosis of internal diseases ; 6th edition. Springer, Berlin 1949/50.
  • with others: textbook of internal medicine. 2 volumes. Springer, Berlin 1931; 6th and 7th edition 1949.

literature

  • Leo Hantschmann:  Assmann, Herbert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 419 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Walther Killy (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . Assmann, Herbert, medic. 1st edition. tape 1 . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag; KG Sauer (paperback edition), Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-59053-X , p. 207 .
  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
  • Ralf Forsbach / Hans-Georg Hofer, internists in dictatorship and young democracy. The German Society for Internal Medicine 1933–1970, Berlin 2018, p. 104 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Vogt: The Medical University Clinic to Königsberg / Prussia - Herbert Assmann. In: The East Prussian family of doctors. 1964, Advent Circular, pp. 13-18.
  2. ^ Eberhard Neumann-Redlin von Meding : The medical clinic of the Albertus University of Königsberg. In: Königsberger Bürgerbrief. No. 84 (2014), pp. 32-38.
  3. ^ Helmut Vogt: The Medical University Clinic to Königsberg / Prussia - Herbert Assmann. In: The East Prussian family of doctors. 1964, Advent circular, pp. 13-18, here p. 14.
  4. ↑ Assmann, Wolfgang Reimer. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
personal data
SURNAME Assmann, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1950
Place of death Oldenburg