Johannes Zschucke

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Johannes Zschucke (born July 20, 1887 in Dresden ; † September 5, 1953 near Saas-Fee ) was a German tropical medicine specialist and university professor.

Life

After completing his school career, Zschucke studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg, Greifswald , Innsbruck and Munich , where he was awarded a Dr. med graduated . Even before his doctorate, Zschucke was employed at the Tropical Institute in Hamburg . From 1913 Zschucke worked as a tropical medicine doctor in Cameroon and was interned in Spain during the First World War . From 1921 to 1925 he worked as a planting hygienist in Guatemala and toured Central America. He then worked in research at IG Farben and in this role completed several trips abroad.

Zschucke was appointed associate professor for tropical medicine at the University of Cologne in 1938. During the Second World War , Zschucke worked as a fleet doctor at the Naval Medical Office in Berlin from 1941. Zschucke took part in the conference on “Medical Questions in Distress at Sea and Winter Death” on October 26th and 27th, 1942 in Nuremberg , where a lecture was also given about the “attempts at hypothermia” in the Dachau concentration camp .

After the end of the war, Zschucke headed the Diagnostic Institute in Celle from 1951 . He also worked as a tropical medicine specialist for the World Health Organization in Geneva . Zschucke, who was a passionate mountaineer, fell while trying to save a slipped mountaineer to death with him on the Lagginhorn .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Academic Section Munich of the German Alpine Club eV: (Annual Report 1952 to 1953)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Munich 1954@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dav-bibliothek.de  
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 698
personal data
SURNAME Zschucke, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tropical medicine specialist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1953
Place of death at Saas-Fee