Hermann Tjaden

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Photo of Hermann Tjaden as a student in Göttingen in 1880

Hermann Christian Tjaden (born April 29, 1861 in Norden ; † April 8, 1952 in Bremen ) was a German doctor.

biography

Tjaden was the son of a worker and merchant . After graduating from high school, he first studied mathematics for a semester at the University of Tübingen and then moved to the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he began to study medicine . In Tübingen he was a fox with the Landsmannschaft Scotland and in Göttingen he became a member of the association and later fraternity of Holzminda in the summer semester of 1880 . After his exams he took over a country practice in Kelsterbach in Hesse from 1885 to 1896 . In addition, he dealt with questions of the bacteriologist . In 1892 he passed a state medical examination. In 1896 he became a district assistant doctor in Gießen . Here Tjaden was able to work with the important hygienist and bacteriologist, Robert cookery student Georg Gaffky . In 1887 he married Elisabetha Katharina Stein (1856–1945). On January 1, 1900, he was appointed government councilor at the Imperial Health Department in Berlin . He dealt with foot and mouth disease and various methods of heating milk.

In 1901 Tjaden was appointed as a medical advisor to the director of the Bacteriological Institute (since 1903 the Hygienic Institute ) in Bremen. In 1902 the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen appointed him professor. In 1904 he took over the management of the health council for the Senate in Bremen. He effectively headed the health service in Bremen. In 1911 he was promoted to senior medical officer. In 1926 he retired.

Doctor and hygienist

Tjaden dealt with health care, social hygiene , the fight against infectious diseases, the drinking water problem, disinfection and the Weser pollution by the potash industry with great success . The drinking water pipeline from the Sösetalsperre in the Harz Mountains to Bremen was made on his initiative. He was the leading expert on river pollution matters. At the 46th German Medical Congress in Würzburg , his presentation on social hygiene in connection with housing was of great importance. His work from 1907 was fundamental: Bremen in a hygienic relationship . In 1932 he also wrote a book on Bremen and its medical profession since the beginning of the 19th century .

Political activity

After the First World War , Tjaden became a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP). In 1919/20 he represented the party in the Bremen constituent assembly . In 1920 he was the only representative to oppose a resolution of the Reich Health Council, according to which marriage applicants should be obliged to exchange health certificates. He and three other MPs (out of 31) voted against the introduction of the certificates. This position prevailed in 1921/22 with the Reich Minister of the Interior and the majority of the states.

In 1943, at the age of 82, Tjaden became a member of the NSDAP . As a result, he was classified as a fellow traveler after the war. Nitschke writes: "The fact that Tjaden, one of the few critics of racial hygiene before 1933, was judged in the same way as many enforcers of racial hygiene after 1933, was not an irony of fate - but an outgrowth of a failed attempt to cope with the Nazi past." The Bremen Senate was also of the opinion and in 1956 named a street in the Bremen- Sebaldsbrück district after him in recognition of his services to the Bremen health system .

Honors

  • 1951: Honorary member of the Holzminda fraternity
  • 1956: The Tjadenweg in the Bremen-Sebaldsbrück district was named after Hermann Tjaden .

Publications (selection)

  • Alcohol and hand disinfection. In: Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 38, 1898, pp. 351-403.
  • Some remarks on the susceptibility of guinea pigs to the pathogen that causes chicken cholera. In: Centralblatt für Bakteriologie. Abt. 1, 25, 1899, p. 224.
  • To the school doctor question. In: Journal for medical officials. 16, 1899, pp. 537-544.
  • Milk supply to the big cities and spread of typhus. In: Health Engineer. 26, 1903, p. 224.
  • About immunity and immunization. In: German monthly for dentistry. 22, 1904, pp. 168-171.
  • Hygienic and bacteriological examination centers in the cities. In: Hygienische Rundschau 14, 1904, pp. 609–622.
  • The fight against tuberculosis in Bremen. In: Social Medicine and Hygiene. 1, 1906, pp. 20 and 79.
  • Diphtheria as a popular disease and how to combat it . In: German Archive for Clinical Medicine. 89, 1906, pp. 292-321.
  • North Sea Climate and Tuberculosis Control. in: Medical Clinic. 3, 1907, pp. 1123-1129.
  • Bremen in terms of hygiene. Ceremony for the 32nd meeting of the German Association for Public Health Care, Bremen 1907.
  • The potash industry and its wastewater with special consideration of the Weser river area. Berlin 1915.
  • Prostitution and Population Policy. In: German Medical Weekly. 43, 1917, pp. 1107-1109.
  • Venereal diseases and prostitution. In: Clinical weekly . 2, 1923, pp. 312-315.
  • Health care in the light of biology and hygiene. In: Journal for School Health Care. 41, 1928, pp. 619-626.
  • Benzoic acid and minced meat. In: Archives for Hygiene and Bacteriology . 104, 1930, pp. 184-196.
  • Coffee and caffeine. In: Swiss medical weekly. (Special supplement) 62, 1932, pp. 2-4.
  • Bremen and the Bremen medical profession since the beginning of the 19th century. Bremen 1932.

literature

  • Wilhelm Brewes: Bremen in the Revolution 1918-1919. Bremen 1919.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 414-415.
  • Stade: Hermann Tjaden on his 70th birthday. In: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift , Vol. 57 (1931), pp. 728-729, ISSN  0012-0472 .
  • Bernhard Noltenius in: Bremer Nachrichten on April 28, 1941: Prof. Tjaden 80 years.
  • Weser-Kurier on April 28, 1951: Prof. Tjaden 90 years.
  • Bremer Nachrichten on April 28, 1951: Prof. Tjaden 90 years.
  • Hans Früchtnicht: Ad memoriam Hermann Tjaden † 8.4.1952. In: Bremer Ärzteblatt , vol. 5 (1952), p. 116, ISSN  0340-5362 .
  • Obituary in: Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity Holzminda Göttingen. Verden 1952, pp. 38-41.
  • Rolf Ulrich : Hermann Tjaden . In: Wilhelm Lührs (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild-Verlag, Bremen 1969, pp. 520-521.
  • Asmus Nitschke: The "hereditary police" under National Socialism. On the everyday history of the health authorities in the Third Reich. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-531-13272-5 (also dissertation, University of Bremen 1998).
  • Herbert Schwarzwälder : to Tileman towards Schenck . In: Ders .: Das Große Bremen-Lexikon , Vol. 2 . Edition Temmen , Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Ebel : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1837-1900. Hildesheim 1974. (No. 58319)
  2. ^ Wilhelm Ebel : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1837-1900. Hildesheim 1974. (No. 58319, registered on October 28, 1879 & No. 61684, registered on October 30, 1884)
  3. ↑ online at the SuUB Bremen: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46:1-270

Web links

CV at: http://www.ostfriesenelandschaft.de/


personal data
SURNAME Tjaden, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tjaden, Hermann Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and politician (DDP, NSDAP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH north
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1952
Place of death Bremen