Josef Haemel

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Josef Hämel (right) as rector with Thomas Mann in 1955

Josef Haemel (born November 18, 1894 in Straubing , † April 9, 1969 in Munich ) was a German dermatologist and university professor.

Life

Josef Hämel was born as the son of the district school councilor Adalbert Hämel, his older brother was the Romanist Adalbert Josef (1885–1952). Josef Hämel graduated from high school in Straubing , took part in the First World War as a cavalryman and studied medicine at the University of Würzburg from November 1918 . In June 1922 he passed the state examination and a month later he received his doctorate . In December 1922 he received his license to practice medicine . He worked for two years as a volunteer assistant under Wilhelm Kolle at the Institute for Experimental Therapy in Frankfurt am Main . From January 1925 he worked at the University Skin Clinic in Würzburg, where he was appointed senior physician in 1928 and completed his habilitation in 1929 under the direction of Karl Zieler . In 1934 he was appointed associate professor .

Hämel joined the NSDAP and the SA in 1933 . In connection with the dismissal of Jewish university lecturers, he took over the professorship for dermatology at the University of Greifswald on April 1, 1935, initially on a substitute basis and on June 1 as planned . Just six months later, on October 1, 1935, he was appointed full professor of dermatology and director of the university skin clinic at the University of Jena . The title of his inaugural lecture was: "The fight against venereal diseases in the new Germany". From 1939 to 1944 he was dean of the medical faculty. During the Nazi era, Haemel was a proponent of the revocation of academic titles from Jewish doctors. During the Second World War he was also employed as a medical officer and deputy leader of the 2nd student company. He was a speaker for the doctoral thesis of the concentration camp doctor Erich Wagner on the question of tattoos.

In December 1945 Hämel was dismissed because of his membership in the NSDAP. On January 4, 1947, he was reinstated in his old post with the approval of the Soviet military administration . In 1951 he was elected rector of the University of Jena and confirmed in 1953, 1955 and 1957. In 1952 Hämel was named “ Honored Doctor of the People ”. On his 60th birthday in 1954 he became an honorary citizen of Jena and received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In 1955 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena. In 1956 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

When there was increasing politicization in connection with the 400th anniversary of the University of Jena in 1958, Hämel fled to West Berlin on August 21 and later to the Federal Republic. He settled in Munich. On April 1, 1959, he took over the chair for dermatology at the University of Heidelberg and the management of the university skin clinic. On his 70th birthday in 1964, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. On August 31, 1965, Hämel retired.

From 1924 Hämel was with Fedora, b. from Crailsheim-Rugland, married. The marriage remained childless. He died in 1969 of complications from a hypernephroma .

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  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 216