Hugo Amelung

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Hugo Georg Julius Amelung (* July 17, 1857 in Altena ; † February 4, 1948 in Königstein im Taunus ) was a German doctor and founder of the Dr. Amelung.

Amelung standing on the left in a Königstein city council meeting in 1909

life and work

After consulting with Georg Pingler , Amelung founded a cold water healing facility on Adelheidstrasse in 1891. A new sanatorium by the architect Heinrich Metzendorf based on the model of Baden-Baden sanatoriums on Altkönigstrasse was named “Sanatorium Sanitätsrat Dr. Amelung ”opened in 1913.

The particular success that the medical council achieved in its sanatorium was based not least on the daily contact it maintained with its patients, as well as on the internal climate of the clinic, in which the patients were taken in like a family. Since Hugo Amelung died only three years after the end of the war, the many prominent patients listed in the 500 pages of memoirs of his son Walther Amelung also came into contact with him.

Hugo Amelung was the long-time doctor Stefan Georges , who came to Königstein with his family for summer vacation from Bingen as early as the 1890s . After they were bombed out in Berlin, Max Dessoir and his wife found refuge in the Amelung sanatorium for several months.

Healing methods

Amelung's treatment methods consisted of water therapy (mentioned for the first time in the spa and tourist list from 1891), steam baths , showers , wraps , baths , massages and therapeutic gymnastics . A natural diet according to Bircher Benner's rules was offered. Severely depressed patients were helped with the help of hydrotherapy and carefully dosed opiates .

After Heinrich Lahmann in the health resort of Weißer Hirsch , he opened the second air and sun bathing facility that existed in Germany. Amelung took up Peter Dettweiler's outdoor reclining cure and also used it to treat heart disease or nervous disorders. The air bath was equipped with air huts in order to ensure the open-air bath even in bad weather.

literature

  • Sabine Stern: The work of Medical Councilor Dr. Hugo Amelung in Königstein / Ts. In: 150 years of cure in Königstein. Magistrate of the city of Königstein im Taunus 2001, ISBN 3-9800793-4-1 , pp. 42–46.
  • Walther Amelung : Be it as it may, it was so beautiful. Frankfurt am Main 1984 (with a photograph of Hugo Amelung with his family).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gw.geneanet.org
  2. ^ Beate Großmann-Hofmann, city archivist Königstein: Memory of Dr. Oskar Kohnstamm (1871-1917). In: Yearbook Hochtaunuskreis 2017. Frankfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-95542-226-4 , p. 97.
  3. ↑ Thomas Karlauf: Stefan George "The Discovery of Charisma". Blessing, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89667-151-6 , chapter New Perspectives. P. 194, Der Sterngucker. P. 42.
  4. ↑ Max Dessoir: Book of Memory. Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1947, introduction.
personal data
SURNAME Amelung, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amelung, Hugo Georg Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Altena
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1948
Place of death Königstein im Taunus