Herbert Uebermuth

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Herbert Uebermuth (born January 18, 1901 in Leipzig ; † January 1, 1986 there ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

As the son of a master hairdresser , Uebermuth attended the Thomas School in Leipzig . After graduating from high school (1920), he studied medicine at the University of Leipzig . With a doctoral thesis on pancreatic cancer with Erwin Payr , he received his doctorate as Dr. med. After three years with Werner Hueck in the Leipzig pathology department , he went to the Charité women's clinic . Although he had become a senior physician and Walter Stoeckel had offered him his habilitation , Uebermuth returned to Leipzig in 1933 as an assistant surgeon in surgery to become a surgeon with his doctoral supervisor Erwin Payr. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP . He was a member of the National Socialist German Medical Association and the National Socialist German Lecturer Association (NSDDB) and was a youth doctor in the Hitler Youth from 1934 to 1937 .

Herbert Uebermuth's grave and relatives

He completed his habilitation in 1936 and became senior physician and head of the clinic's pathological-anatomical laboratory. 1937 became a private lecturer the following year . In 1942 he was called up as a medical officer for the Wehrmacht and awarded the EKII. In 1943, at the instigation of Wilhelm Rieder, he received an extraordinary position .

In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he was released in 1946. After four years as a freelance surgeon, he was appointed director of the Surgical Polyclinic Institute by the University of Leipzig in 1950 to succeed Erich Sonntag . In 1952 she made it to Ernst Heller to professor and clinic director. From 1955 to 1957 he was the medical director of the Leipzig University Hospital and from 1958/59 dean of the medical faculty. From 1953 he was chairman of the Science Union and from 1958 he was a member of the National Council of the National Front .

He initiated the independence of Pediatric Surgery (1958, introduced in 1959 establishing the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Fritz Meissner ) and the Heart and Vascular Surgery (1961). Nevertheless, he stood for the unit of surgery. Many qualified chief physicians emerged from his clinic . Among the ten Ordinaries was Helmut Wolff . 1966 Emeritus , arrogance remained until 1967. Acting director of the clinic . His successor was Werner Kothe . Uebermuth died shortly before his 85th birthday. His grave is in the Südfriedhof in Leipzig.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christian Schwokowski : On the 100th birthday of Herbert Uebermuth. ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Ärzteblatt Sachsen. (with picture; PDF; 75 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.slaek.de
  2. ↑ a b c d Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 345.
  3. ↑ The fact that habilitation and private lectureship do not coincide is becoming more common again today
  4. ^ University of Leipzig
  5. ↑ a b Archive University of Leipzig (PDF; 7.0 MB)
  6. ^ Berliner Zeitung , 1./2. May 1976, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Uebermuth, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1986
Place of death Leipzig