Herbert Siegmund

Herbert Siegmund (born April 14, 1892 in Rybnik , † February 22, 1954 in Münster ) was a German pathologist and professor .

Life

Siegmund grew up in Upper Silesia City Rybnik and made in Ratibor his high school . He then studied at the University of Breslau medicine and was Corps Silesia active. After a change to the University of Munich , he passed his medical state examination in 1916 and his doctorate to Dr. med.

Immediately afterwards he had to work as an assistant to an army pathologist during World War I. After the end of the war, he returned to the Pathological Institute of the University of Munich, but in 1920 he moved to the University of Cologne , where he completed his habilitation in 1921 and became a member of the Corps Friso-Luneburgia in 1920 and of the Corps Hansea in 1921 . In 1925 he was appointed associate professor . In 1930 he took over the prosecution from the Katharinenhospital in Stuttgart .

In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP . In 1935 he followed a call to the University of Kiel , where he became a full professor .

In the Second World War he was promoted to senior staff doctor and in 1942 appointed as a consulting pathologist in Military District VI. In October 1942 he took part in the “Seenot” conference, at which human experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp were dealt with. In the same year Siegmund moved to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, where he worked until his death. In 1943 he was appointed its rector .

In 1944 he was appointed to the scientific advisory board of the General Commissioner for Sanitary and Health Care Karl Brandt , and Adolf Hitler awarded him the Goethe Medal for Art and Science .

Siegmund remained a professor after the end of the war and had been part of the editorial team of the journal Grenzgebiete der Medizin since 1948 .

Honors

For his services to the pathology of the tooth and the tooth support apparatus, he was awarded the title of Dr. med. dent. hc of dentistry awarded. In 1953 he was honored by the German medical profession with their highest distinction, the Paracelsus Medal .

Works

• Investigations into the influence of the extirpation of the spleen on the fat content of the blood , Munich (dissertation) 1918
• Reticuloendothelium and active mesenchyme , Berlin (Urban & Schwarzenberg), 1927
• Investigations into the stress on the temporomandibular joints and their tissue consequences , Leipzig (G. Thieme), 1934
• Diagnosis of Herder Diseases , Munich (Hanser), 1953
• Pathological histology of the oral cavity , Leipzig 1964

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 .
• G. Schallloch: Herbert Siegmund. A picture of life , in: Medical Clinic , No. 18 of April 30, 1954

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 43/101
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 84/86
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} 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. 583.

predecessor	Office	successor
Walter Mevius	Rector of the University of Münster 1944–1945	Georg Schreiber