Johannes Benjamin Brennecke

Johannes Benjamin Brennecke

Johannes Benjamin Brennecke (born November 2, 1849 in Cröchern ; † July 30, 1931 in Magdeburg ) was a secret medical councilor and doctor who made a name for himself in reforming midwifery .

Life

Brennecke was born as the fifth child of a Protestant pastor . After attending a grammar school in Stendal , he studied medicine in Halle (Saale) from 1869 . He was a student of Robert Olshausen and Heinrich Fritsch .

As the first specialist in gynecology in Magdeburg, he settled there in 1876. In 1877 he was accepted into the Magdeburg Medical Society. After working at the Provincial Midwifery Training Institute , he opened a private clinic in Sudenburg in 1880 , at today's Halberstädter Straße 77 - at that time Breiter Weg 31. However, he also operated in the Kahlenbergstift .

He was committed to reforming midwifery training in Germany , aiming for civil servant status for midwives . With his demands for more government engagement in the post-bed hygiene, however, he was essentially unable to prevail. Brennecke also advocated the creation of more obstetric clinics. He founded a corresponding institution, as a maternity shelter of the women's association, in Magdeburg at the Sudenburger Tor .

In 1887 Brennecke was elected to the Medical Association of the Province of Saxony . For many years he was a member of the board of directors of the Medical Association, from 1906 to 1908 its chairman. In 1907 he was awarded the title of Privy Medical Council. Brennecke was the editor of several specialist journals.

During the period of inflation he had to give up his clinic and in 1919 his asylum. His family became impoverished. At the age of 72, he gave up his medical practice in 1922.

After his death, the city of Magdeburg named a street in his honor ( Brenneckestraße ).

Fonts

• Practical rules for ensuring a healthy puerperium. A warning to the audience and the midwives. 1883.
• Midwives or Deaconesses for Obstetrics? A Critique of Midwifery. Neuwied 1884.
• Freedom! An open word on the sexual question to Germany's youth. 1907.
• The district maternity hospital and its fundamental importance for mother and baby protection. 1917.

literature

• Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking physicians / ed. von Dietrich von Engelhardt - Munich: Saur, 2002. - ISBN 3-598-11462-1 . - Vol. 1 A-Q.
• Dieter Niemann, Nadja Gröschner; The St. Ambrosius parish and the "Old Cemetery" in Magdeburg-Sudenburg , 2001, Kremkau, ISBN 3-934988-16-4
• Horst-Peter Wolff, Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon : 19th and 20th centuries / ed. by Guido Heinrich; Gunter Schandera - Magdeburg: Scriptum-Verl., 2002, Magdeburg, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , online in: '' Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon '' of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
• Horst-Peter Wolff: The contribution of the Magdeburg gynecologist Johannes Benjamin Brennecke (1849-1931) to the development of health protection for mother and child. Dtsch Gesundheitsw 23 (1968), 2142-2147, PMID 4893329
• Horst-Peter Wolff: Johannes Benjamin Brennecke: (1849-1931): biographical study of the first gynecologist in the city of Magdeburg, a practitioner of social gynecology. Self-published , Fürstenberg / Havel , 2007
• Adam Bauereisen : Obituary for Johannes Brennecke. Zentralbl Gynäkol 55 (1931), 2722
• Julius Pagel : Brennecke, Johannes Benjamin . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, Sp.  237-238 .