Horst Habs

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Horst Habs

Horst Habs (born September 11, 1902 in Magdeburg , † March 6, 1987 in Bonn ) was a German physician, hygienist and microbiology, tropical medicine and university professor.

Life

Habs was a son of the director of the Altstadt hospital and the surgical clinic in Magdeburg Rudolf Habs . His grandfather was the sculptor Hermann Habs. Habs attended the preparatory school in Magdeburg from 1908 and from 1911 the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium there, where he passed the school leaving examination in 1920. He studied medicine in Heidelberg , Greifswald , Freiburg , Kiel and Würzburg . In Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Rhenania in 1921 . In 1925 he passed the medical state examination. After graduating as Dr. med. In 1926 he became an assistant at the Medical Clinic in Kiel and in 1928 at the Hygiene Institute in Heidelberg, where he completed his habilitation in 1931 . Habs became a private lecturer in hygiene and bacteriology, an extraordinary professor in Heidelberg in 1936 and an extraordinary professor in Berlin in 1940.

Habs, who joined the Reiter-SS in the course of the transfer of power to the National Socialists , was a member of the NSDAP from 1937 . Furthermore to the NS-Ärztebund and the NS-Dozentbund . From 1940 he was an SS member and in 1941 reached the rank of SS-Untersturmführer in this Nazi organization .

During the Second World War , Habs served as a medical officer, most recently as chief medical officer in the reserve. Among other things, he was employed as a consultant hygienist in the Balkans and Greece. In 1943 he helped to achieve freedom from malaria in Greece by making maps of the spread of the malaria mosquitoes.

In October 1943 he was initially a deputy chair and from 1944 professor at the University of Hamburg . In 1944 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the authorized representative for health care Karl Brandt .

Habs was interned from 1945 to 1947. After the war, he first settled in Northern Germany as a general practitioner. In 1949 he came to the Medical Investigation Office in Lüneburg as a scientific employee . Regardless of his Nazi involvement, he returned to Heidelberg in 1950 as full professor and head of the Hygiene Institute . From 1958 he was a full professor of hygiene and director of the Hygiene Institute at the University of Bonn. 1961/62 he was dean of the medical faculty. In 1970 he retired. In his scientific work he was particularly concerned with water hygiene, vaccinations, salmonella, the spread of the malaria mosquito, as well as Bang and Malta fever.

Habs was a consultant in the reconstruction of the Bundeswehr medical system. In 1967 he took over the sponsorship of the Institut National d´Hygiène in Lomé and played a decisive role in the establishment of the institute. Together with his wife he organized the vaccination against polio in Togo. He was a member of the Federal Health Council and a member of the Military Medical Advisory Board. In 1971 he became 1st Chairman of the German Tropical Medicine Society.

Since 1951 Habs was a full and since 1959 a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 1953, Horst Habs gave the opening speech at the opening of the nursing school at Heidelberg University , in which he referred to the tradition of academic nursing in Heidelberg since Franz Anton Mai . In 1958 he became a member of the German Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina in Halle, 1969 honorary member of the Robert Koch Foundation , 1971 honorary member of the German Society for Laboratory Medicine, 1972 honorary member of the Austrian Society for Hygiene, 1974 honorary member of the German Tropical Medicine Society, 1975 honorary member of the German Society for hygiene and microbiology.

Awards

  • Paracelsus Medal of the German Medical Association (1973)
  • Hygieia Medal from the Rudolf Schülke Foundation (1978)
  • Ernst Rodenwaldt Medal (1982)
  • Officier de l'Ordre du Mono.

Works

  • About the relationship between the histological structure and the prognosis of gastric cancer (Diss., Kiel 1925)
  • Bacteriological paperback (from 30th edition, 1940, as editor)
  • The uptake of a solute by bacteria . In: Journal for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases, Volume 113, pp. 233-272, Volume 114, pp. 1-10 and 358-370 (habilitation thesis)
  • The so-called plague of Thucydides . Attempt of an epidemiological analysis , presented at the meeting on November 14, 1981, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , Springer, Heidelberg / Berlin et al. 1982, ISBN 978-0-387-11941-0 .

literature

  • Directory of the Heidelberg Rhenanen living on November 1, 1937 . o. O. [1937], pp. 116f.
  • General-Anzeiger Bonn , June 22, 1976, September 16, 1977, September 11, 1982, April 11, 1987 (obituary)
  • Bonner Rundschau September 10, 1977 and September 11, 1982
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 215
  2. ^ University of Bonn: Institute for Hygiene and Public. Health : Horst Habs 1958 .
  3. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Horst Habs. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed July 1, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Christine R. Auer: Antje Grauhan and Wolfgang Rapp (Dept. Paul Christian ): The expansion of the bipersonal to a tripersonal situation "doctor-patient care" presented us with new challenges, for Sabine Bartholomeyczik to the Federal Cross of Merit 2015, self-published Heidelberg, Opening speech by Horst Habs pp. 110–112, ISBN 978-3-00-050734-2
  5. ↑ Member entry of Horst Habs at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 16, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Habs, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1987
Place of death Bonn