Hermann Gutschow

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Hermann Gutschow

Hermann Gutschow (born August 20, 1843 in Brandenburg (Havel) , † April 23, 1903 in Berlin ) was a German medical officer in the Imperial Navy.

Life

Gutschow studied medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1862 he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Berlin . After becoming a Dr. med. After receiving his doctorate , he joined the Prussian Army as a one-year volunteer doctor and took part in the German War .

When the navy added their doctors from the army, Gutschow served in the North and Baltic Seas , in East Asia and in the office of the doctor general. For two years he was assigned to the Medical and Surgical Friedrich Wilhelms Institute and to the Charité in Berlin. In 1876 ​​he went back to East Asia with SMS Elisabeth . In Yokohama he built the military hospital of the German Imperial Navy in Yokohama . With his foresight and organizational talent, he was greatly appreciated by the Japanese government. She repeatedly consulted him on questions of disease control . After 1884 it was used by the 1st shipyard division. In 1892 he became chief physician of the naval hospital in Kiel, in 1894 garrison physician and station physician of the naval station in the Baltic Sea . For many years he was a teacher for health care at the Naval Academy and School (Kiel) .

In 1896 he was appointed general physician of the navy and head of the medical department of the Reichsmarineamt . He separated the marine medical corps from the army and became its first chief. Later he also received the immediate position . In 1899 he was appointed General Staff Doctor with the rank of Rear Admiral. Valued by Alfred von Tirpitz , he succeeded in reorganizing the marine medical services. Hospitals, ships and land facilities were improved according to new scientific and technical knowledge.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 17/120.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Gutschow, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg (Havel)
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1903
Place of death Berlin