Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt

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Bronze bust of Mühlpfordt by Georg Fuhg

Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt (born March 31, 1893 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † October 9, 1982 in Lübeck ) was a German doctor, local researcher and writer. Like no other, he testifies to the cultural heritage of East Prussia's provincial capital.

Life

As the son of the dentist Meinhard Mühlpfordt and his wife Clara geb. Adloff attended Mühlpfordt the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsbert. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine , literature and art history at the University of Freiburg (1912), the University of Munich (1912/13) and the University of Königsberg (1913/14). Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, he enlisted on August 17, 1914 as a volunteer . Only released on December 31, 1918, he resumed studies in 1919. After intermediate semesters and the state examination in March 1920, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . After two years at the Charité , he settled in Allenstein in 1922 . From 1929 to 1937 he was the head of the department for dermatology at St. Marien Hospital in Allenstein. In 1937 he opened his own medical practice in Königsberg . During the Second World War he served as a medical officer and senior medical officer in the Wehrmacht . Discharged in 1944 for health reasons, he was a refugee doctor in Pillau and on the Fresh Spit from January to April 1945 . There he experienced the escape and evacuation of the civilian population and the collapse of the fighting troops in the Battle of East Prussia . Six days after the surrender of the fortress Konigsberg escaped Mühlpfordt in Operation Hannibal to Wismar . In May 1945 he opened an internal medicine practice in Lübeck, which he operated until 1959. Mühlpfordt lived in Königsberg for 52 years and in Lübeck for 38 years.

As a nature and art lover and an enthusiastic mountaineer , Mühlpfordt traveled a lot. He wrote eleven books and over 200 articles and articles for newspapers and magazines on regional studies of East Prussia and West Prussia , above all on the documentation of the cultural history and intellectual history of Königsberg. He wrote many articles in the Ostpreußenblatt, especially on the theater in Königsberg . His novel The Golden Ball gives an insight into the Wilhelmine life of the Königsberg society around 1900. The best known today is probably his city dictionary , to which Robert Albinus refers in many articles of his dictionary. His cultural-historical contributions to the “Königsberg Rococo” illuminate the forgotten and incomparable Königsberg century . The eight sketches were edited by Peter Wörster and the JG Herder-Bibliothek Siegerland for Mühlpfordt's diamond jubilee. Mühlpfordt shared a special love for ETA Hoffmann with Otto Besch . In the post-war period in Germany , he was involved in the Göttingen working group .

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Immortal Koenigsberg Castle . Ten essays, edited by Peter Wörster . Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-631-39916-3
  • Which fellow citizens did Königsberg publicly honor? Wuerzburg 1963
  • Königsberg sculptures and their masters 1255–1945 (= East German contributions from the Göttingen working group 46). Würzburg 1970 ( digitized version ).
  • Königsberg from A to Z. A city dictionary , 2nd edition. Munich 1976, ISBN 3761200927
  • Animal stories: about moose, rabbits, sparrows and dogs . Wuppertal, undated (1973?), ISBN 3874343340
  • The golden ball. A family novel of our time . Mannheim 1977, ISBN 3808312785
  • East Prussian fairy tales. What the sun's rays told and even more for the children's heart .
  • Königsberg life in the Rococo. Important contemporaries of Kant , ed. by Peter Wörster . Herder Library Siegerland, Siegen 1981
  • Ghost stories . Wuppertal 1976
  • Königsberg life in customs and folklore , around 1980
  • The Siegen sculptor Johann Friedrich Reusch - life and work. On the 75th anniversary of his death on October 15, 1981 . Siegerland, around 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Ostpreußenblatt March 17, 1973 / Volume 11 / Page 11 , accessed on May 17, 2014.
  2. Dissertation: About two cases of aneurysm of the abdominal aorta with special consideration of direct X-ray diagnosis .