Hugo Selter

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Emil Hugo Selter (born February 4, 1878 in Werdohl ; † December 28, 1952 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German hygienist . From 1926 to 1946 he was head of the Institute for Hygiene and Public Health at the University of Bonn .

Life

Selter was born in Werdohl and attended high schools in Altena, Wiesbaden and Soest. There he passed the Abitur examination in 1895 and then studied at the universities in Berlin, Munich and Bonn. In 1902 he received his doctorate and began his scientific work as an assistant at the Hygiene Institute of the University of Bonn . There he also wrote his habilitation thesis, with which he was habilitated in 1905. Finally, in 1912, he was appointed associate professor. In 1911 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Saxon Order of Albrecht , because he had rendered outstanding services to the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden in the school hygiene group. On July 19, 1912, Selter was appointed medical officer for the reserve. He had been married to Margarete Meyer since September 6, 1906, and they had five children.

Act

Seldom followed a call from the University of Leipzig in 1914, where he was employed as an associate professor. In 1917 he became director of the Hygiene Institute at the University of Königsberg , where he researched, among other things, tuberculosis bacteria. As a medical officer he took part in the First World War, which is why he was awarded the Iron Cross, first and second class. In 1926 he followed the call of the University of Bonn to the chair for hygiene. He headed the Hygiene Institute from 1926 to 1946. In 1936 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

National Socialism

Selter was a member of the DNVP until 1932 and joined the NSDAP in 1933 . From April 1934 he was a supporting member of the SS , which he said he only supported with a one-off sum of 100 Reichsmarks . He was also a member of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association , the Reich Colonial Association , the National Socialist People's Welfare and the National Socialist Old Men Association . Selter, who became known in the National Socialist state as a race hygienist , took part in World War II as an army hygienist from September 1, 1939 , but was able to fill his position in Bonn again on March 1, 1940. In 1946 he was duly retired. After the Second World War, in the course of denazification , probably also because of his illness, he was assigned to group 5 as an exonerated person.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The personal dictionary on the Third Reich - Who was what before and after 1945. June 2007, 2nd edition, p. 578.
  • Ralf Forsbach: The medical faculty of the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich”. 2006, pp. 112-114.
  • Walter Bruchhausen: Hygiene and Public Health in Bonn from the 18th to the 20th century . In: Walter Bruchhausen and Thomas Kistemann (eds.): 125 years of the Institute for Hygiene and Public Health . Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-062603-6 , pp. 7-56 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Bruchhausen: Hygiene and Public Health in Bonn from the 18th to the 20th century . In: Walter Bruchhausen and Thomas Kistemann (eds.): 125 years of the Institute for Hygiene and Public Health . Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-062603-6 , pp. 7-56 .
  2. ^ Institute for Hygiene and Public Health
personal data
SURNAME Less often, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Selter, Emil Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Werdohl
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1952
Place of death bad Godesberg