Hermann Dold (doctor)

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Hermann Dold (born October 5, 1882 in Stuttgart , † October 31, 1962 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German hygienist , bacteriologist and university professor.

Life

Hermann Dold was the son of the teacher Johann Jacob Dold and his wife Sofie, née Falter. He finished his school career at the Karls-Gymnasium Stuttgart in 1900 with the Abitur . He then completed a degree in medicine and natural sciences at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin . He completed his studies in 1906 with the state examination and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He then worked as an assistant at the Marienhospital in Stuttgart and at the pathological institute of the University of Tübingen. In 1908 he moved to London , where he found a job as Harben Demonstrator of Bacteriology and Comparative Pathology at the Royal Institute of Public Health . From 1910 he was employed as a research assistant at the Imperial Health Department in Berlin. After completing his habilitation in bacteriology and hygiene at the University of Strasbourg in 1912 , he worked there as a private lecturer . From 1914 he taught first as a lecturer and later as a professor at the German Medical School for Chinese in Shanghai . After the outbreak of World War I he was a reservist with the III. Sea battalion stationed in Tsingtau . In 1914, he was still a prisoner of war with the rank of naval sub-doctor. Research trips to China, Japan and Russia followed.

Dold returned in 1919 to the German Reich back in 1920 taught briefly at the University of Halle , the professional social hygiene and changed the following year to the State Institute of Experimental Therapy in Frankfurt am Main. From 1921 he was the scientific manager of the Behringwerke and from 1924 director of the Behring Institute. From 1921 he worked at the University of Marburg , where he was appointed associate professor in 1926. In 1925 he took over the management of the serological laboratory at the Reich Health Office and at the same time taught at the University of Berlin. From 1928 he worked as a full professor at the University of Kiel , from 1934 at the University of Tübingen and from 1936 until his retirement in 1952 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . During the Second World War he was dean of the medical faculty from 1943 to 1945 .

Among other things, Dold was co-author of the Handbook for Tropical Diseases, developed test procedures at the Behring Institute for the detection of tuberculosis and syphilis , author of the textbook for bacteriology and finally researched antibacterial inhibitors and modifiers. He was one of the editors of the Journal of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases .

He was married to Liselotte, nee Plaschke. The couple had three children. In 1940 he became a member of the Leopoldina in the “Microbiology and Immunology” section .

National Socialist Activities and the Post-War Period

Dold, who belonged to the DVP during the Weimar Republic from 1925 to 1927 , signed the election appeals for the NSDAP from 5./6. November 1932 and March 3, 1933. After the National Socialists seized power , he joined the NSDAP in May 1933 ( membership number 2.733.428). From 1934 he was a member of the Nazi Medical Association and chaired the German Society for Racial Hygiene in Tübingen . In 1942 he applied for admission to the Nazi lecturers' association . The doctoral thesis of the concentration camp doctor Waldemar Hoven was rated "very good" by him. Hoven had researched the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis with coal dust on concentration camp inmates. In 1944, by order of Dold, incriminating files were destroyed.

After the end of the war, he was denazified by the military administration in the French occupation zone because of his membership in Nazi organizations . His salary was reduced by a quarter, but he could remain in the university office. He was a co-owner and sponsor of the right-wing extremist monthly Nation Europa .

Fonts (selection)

  • On the effect of ethyl alcohol and related alcohols on the isolated frog heart , Tübingen 1906 (medical dissertation at the University of Tübingen)
  • Bacterial anaphylatoxin and its role in infection , 1913, (post-doctoral thesis, University of Strasbourg)
  • Tuberculosis and alcoholism , neuter Guttempler-Verl., Heidelberg 1913
  • Hygienic internship: Ein Taschenbuch f. Students, doctors, etc. District doctor candidates , Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1914 (together with Paul Uhlenhuth ), Allgäuer Druckerei u. Verl.-Anst., Kempten (general) 1953
  • How is the German national body doing? , Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1931
  • Tests of milk and milk products by the Breisgau-Milchzentrale Freiburg for tubercle bacteria with negative results: A contribution to question d. Reliability e. careful pasteurization (short-term process) , Allgäuer Druckerei u. Verl.-Anst., Kempten (general) 1953 (together with Gerhard Jordan)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who's Who in Germany , Volume 3, Part 1, Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company, German editor R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1964, p. 332
  2. ↑ a b c d Hermann Dold on www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de
  3. ↑ Who is who? , Volume 12, Schmidt-Römhild, 1955, p. 206
  4. ^ Member entry by Hermann Dold at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 5, 2015.
  5. ^ Wolfram Fischer: Exodus of Sciences from Berlin: Questions - Results - Desiderata. Academy of Sciences in Berlin, p. 59.
  6. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 116.
personal data
SURNAME Dold, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist, bacteriologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1962
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau