Hugo Eickhoff (physician)

Hugo Eickhoff (born February 7, 1905 in Balve , † April 18, 1972 in Aachen ) was a German ear, nose and throat doctor and university professor.

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Eickhoff was the son of the Ibbenbüren mayor Carl Eickhoff and Maria Immenkamp. After graduating from the High School in Menden he studied several semesters Economics before at universities in Munich , Paris , Berlin and Münster learned the subject medicine. In 1935 he completed his studies at the University of Münster with the state examination, received his license to practice medicine a year later and received his doctorate in 1937. Eickhoff then completed his training with Walther Uffenorde at the Polyclinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases of the University of Marburg as a specialist in ear, nose and throat medicine and then returned to Münster, where he completed his time as an assistant doctor.

While still a student, Eickhoff joined the NSDAP , the SA and the National Socialist People's Welfare in 1933 and the Nazi Medical Association in 1937 . At the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted as a troop doctor in a tank unit and, after being wounded in 1941, was appointed chief doctor with the rank of medical officer in the ENT department in the Paderborn reserve hospital.

After the war he returned to the University of Münster, where he was removed from his post as senior physician a year later on March 11, 1946 by the British military government because of his membership in the above-mentioned Nazi organizations. In the denazification process that followed, Eickhoff was exonerated because despite his Nazi membership he was always a critical personality and was admired by his fellow students and colleagues for his fearless statements and deeds. During the interrogation, Eickhoff also testified that he was involved in the formation of his own resistance group, which was later said to have been in contact with the group of assassins of July 20, 1944 and which had planned actions in the reserve hospital shortly before the end of the war, which apparently were however never came.

Following this procedure, Eickhoff completed his habilitation in 1949 with Helmut Loebell at the University of Münster. It was not until 1955 that Eickhoff accepted a call to the Aachen Municipal Hospitals , where he was taken on as the successor to Adolf Greifenstein as Chief Physician of the ENT Clinic and, in 1966, after the Aachen Municipal Hospitals had been incorporated into the new Aachen University Hospital, he was appointed university professor. In addition, he initiated the promotion of self-help groups for the larynx and founded a center for the hearing impaired with his employees, from which in 1974 in Aachen the merger to form the Federal Association of Larynx Surgeons arose.

Eickhoff worked at the ENT clinic until his sudden death in 1972. After a brief provisional management by Peter Plath, from 1973 his successor was the Wiesbaden ENT doctor Georg Schlöndorff .

Eickhoff had been a member of Club Aachener Casino since 1960 .

Fonts (selection)

• The X-ray diagnosis of space-restricting processes inside the skull . Dissertation, Bottrop iW, Münster 1937
• The mucosal lupus. Genesis, treatment and statistics , Barth, Leipzig 1951

literature

• K. Fleischer, Hans Heinz Neumann: Academic teaching centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Germany in the 20th century , Springer Verlag 2013, p. 9/12 ( digitalized )
• Richard Kühl: Leading clinic doctors in Aachen and their role in the Third Reich , study by the Aachen Competence Center for the History of Science, Volume 11, Ed .: Dominik Groß, Diss. RWTH Aachen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-014-0 pdf
• Wilhelm Leopold Janssen , Eduard Arens: History of the Club Aachener Casino. Aachen 1937 (2nd ed. By Elisabeth Janssen and Felix Kuetgens , 1964), pp. 275/276, no. 1111
• W: Eckel: In memoriam Prof. Dr. Hugo Eickhoff , in: Laryngol Rhinol Otol magazine. August 1972

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard Kühl: Leading Aachen clinicians and their role in the Third Reich, study by the Aachen Competence Center for the History of Science, Volume 11, Ed .: Dominik Groß, Diss. RWTH Aachen 2010, p. 161; ISBN 978-3-86219-014-0 pdf