Joachim Wüstenberg

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Joachim Wüstenberg

Joachim Wüstenberg (born April 30, 1908 in Klenzenhof near Groß Pankow (Prignitz) ; † January 4, 1993 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German hygienist.

Life

Wüstenberg's parents were the domain tenant Walter Wüstenberg and his wife Eva nee. Stone . He grew up with three siblings on the Western Pomeranian domain Burow . Since 1824 it was managed by Wüstenberg. The great-grandfather belonged to Fritz Reuter's circle of friends .

Wüstenberg attended the Stralsund high school and from the mid-1920s completed sailing courses during the holidays. There were several naval officers in his mother's family. When he registered for the Reichsmarine after graduating from high school , he failed the eye test . The rejection hit him hard. His older brother studied law at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and was inactive at the Corps Franconia Jena . If not Marine, then at least medicine and of course Franconia. In the summer semester 1928 renoncierte he in Franconia. His outstanding intelligence was noticed from day one. He was reciprocated on January 17, 1929 and was elected sub-senior for the summer semester of 1929. He remained on friendly terms with the two Concharges well into old age. After three active semesters and 12 courses , he moved to the University of Rostock . It drew him to the sea. After the physics and a "ski semester" at the University of Innsbruck , he moved to the Prussian University of Greifswald . There he passed the state examination in 1933. He completed his medical internship at the Greifswald University Women's Clinic and the practical year at the Westend Hospital in Berlin . From the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD.

Gelsenkirchen

After two years as a scientific assistant at the Robert Koch Institute , in 1936 he took over the position of senior physician at the Hygiene Institute of the Ruhr area , which was headed by Max Gundel . In Eckernförde, Plön and Kiel he made reserve exercises in the Navy . He was drafted in 1940 and completed his habilitation that same year at the Westphalian Wilhelms University for Hygiene. In 1941 he was appointed private lecturer and appointed to the submarine research institute. He didn't want to be a desk hygienist. He obtained a transfer to a submarine at the Naval Medical Office . In 1943/44 he drove in the Monsun group as senior staff doctor on U 178 . In a French Atlantic port the crew blew up their own boat. Wüstenberg was taken prisoner by the Americans, but was transferred to the English who needed him to deal with hygienic problems. His older brother had died in the Oryol operation in 1943 . Released from captivity in December 1945, he resumed his work in Gelsenkirchen. In 1949 he was unanimously elected director of the Hygiene Institute and appointed associate professor in Münster in 1951 . In Gelsenkirchen he was able to live out his scientific imagination and vitality. He identified with the depressed Ruhr area to such an extent that he turned down calls from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (1955) and Christian Albrechts University in Kiel (1957). He also did not want to become President of the Federal Health Office as the successor to Wilhelm Hagen in 1957.

environment

Long before Herbert Gruhl and the environmental movement , he recognized the importance of ecological politics. He sat on the board of the Association of German Water Protection and the Association for the Promotion of Water Quality , on the advisory board of the German Center for Public Health and on the committee for questions about keeping the air clean, combating noise and other emissions at the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs . He was chairman of the state working group for keeping the air clean and the commission for research into the effects of air pollutants in the German Research Foundation . He was a member of the Federal Health Council for three terms .

Private

His marriage to a woman from Gelsenkirchen in 1939 was divorced in 1968. His second wife died in 1979 after ten years of marriage.

Honors

Works

  • with Erdmut Steuer: On pool water hygiene with special consideration of the pool water of open summer pools . Düsseldorf 1952.
  • Experience with the guidelines and minimum requirements of the Association of Metropolitan Dairy Suppliers . Nuremberg 1958.
  • Current Medical Viewpoint on the Problem of Air Pollution Affecting Health . Cologne 1959.
  • with Alex Hoffmann: Investigations into the proportion of coal and iron in the dust precipitation within the central Ruhr area. Wiesbaden 1963.
  • Environmental influences and physical health . Essen 1966.
  • Social hygiene problems . Essen 1966.
  • Environmental hygiene, a present and future task to preserve human life. : Problems of the building industry as an economic factor and component of environmental design . Munich 1968.
  • 75 years of the Hygiene Institute of the Ruhr Area Gelsenkirchen . Gelsenkirchen 1977.

literature

  • Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Prof. Dr. med. Joachim Wüstenberg, Director of the Hygiene Institute of the Ruhr Area in Gelsenkirchen . Gelsenkirchen 1968.

Web links

Commons : Joachim Wüstenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 37/728.
  2. ↑ a b c d Wiesner II: In memoriam Joachim Wüstenberg II . The phoenix. Corpszeitung der Jenenser Franken, year 1992/93, volume 48, pp. 36–43
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Investigations into the epidemiology of lobar pneumonia with special consideration of the occurrence of pneumococci in people around flap pneumonia .
  4. ↑ Wüstenberg was the last living officer of U 178.
  5. ↑ Obituary for Prof. Dr. med. Joachim Wüstenberg . Hygiene & Medicine 1993
  6. ^ Johann Peter Frank Medal
  7. ↑ State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia (1973)
  8. ↑ https://recht.nrw.de/lmi/owa/br_mbl_show_pdf?p_jahr=1973&p_nr=81
personal data
SURNAME Wüstenberg, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Klenzenhof near Groß Pankow (Prignitz)
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1993
Place of death Gelsenkirchen