Hugo Schottmüller

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Hugo Schottmüller (born September 22, 1867 in Trebbin , Teltow district in Brandenburg , † May 19, 1936 in Hamburg ) was a German internist and bacteriologist .

Life

Schottmüller studied medicine at the University of Tübingen , Berlin and Greifswald . In Tübingen he became a member of the Corps Rhenania , in Berlin of the Corps Marchia .

After the state examination in 1893 , he received his doctorate in Greifswald and shortly afterwards began military service in the Reichsheer . He then began his clinical work at the surgical clinic of the Hamburg-Eppendorf Clinic under Max Schede , but took a job at the Hygiene Institute of the University of Greifswald with Friedrich Loeffler . As early as 1895 he took up a position as senior physician in the directorate department in Hamburg. As a senior physician in charge, he followed Hermann Lenhartz to the Eppendorf Clinic, where he was able to conduct clinical studies himself. In 1913 he was offered a position at the German University in Prague and thus the management of the medical clinic there. In 1919 he returned to Hamburg to take over the management of the medical polyclinic . Only six years later he was appointed full professor and held this position until shortly before his death in 1936. After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP in 1933 . On November 11th of the same year he signed the German professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler .

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Schottmüller's merits lie in the field of clinical bacteriology and serology . The definition of sepsis that he shaped is still valid today. It is thanks to him that the different types of typhoid are delimited , especially the discovery of paratyphoid and its prognosis. He also researched endocarditis lenta and the Viridans streptococci , which he discovered. He also investigated the importance of anaerobic bacteria in relation to diseases caused by them such as thrombophlebitic sepsis and other diseases such as epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis . He also published a guide on clinical bacteriological culture methods .

Through the German Sepsis Society e. V. is awarded an annual prize for special services in sepsis research under his name.

In Hamburg-Eppendorf there was a Schottmüllerstraße named after him , which was rededicated to Oda Schottmüller in November 2014 because of Hugo Schottmüller's membership in the NSDAP . She was the daughter of Hugo Schottmüller's cousin, the archivist Kurt Schottmüller , and was beheaded in Plötzensee in 1943 as a resistance fighter against National Socialism.

literature

  • Ralf Forsbach / Hans-Georg Hofer, internists in dictatorship and young democracy. The German Society for Internal Medicine 1933–1970, Berlin 2018, p. 62 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 128 , 331; 4 , 441
  2. ↑ cf. Obituary by Ludolph Brauer , Klinische Wochenschrift 1936, p. 1463
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 558.
  4. ↑ Hamburg: Schottmüller - corrected ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , hamburger-wochenblatt.de, December 2, 2014, accessed on August 10, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburger-wochenblatt.de
personal data
SURNAME Schottmüller, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and bacteriologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Trebbin , Teltow district
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1936
Place of death Hamburg