Josef Hohlbaum

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Josef Hohlbaum (born September 6, 1884 in Oberlindewiese , Austrian Silesia , † December 30, 1945 in Markkleeberg ) was a German surgeon and university professor in Leipzig and Prague .

Life

As the middle of three children of a landowner, Hohlbaum studied medicine at the University of Graz . In 1904 he became active in the Stiria fraternity . 1909 Dr. med. after receiving his doctorate , he went to Graz as an assistant to Lorenz in the medical university clinic, to the hospital in Opava and to Ludwig Aschoff in the Freiburg pathology department.

Leipzig

On January 6, 1912, he moved to Erwin Payr at the Surgical University Clinic in Leipzig. During the First World War , Hohlbaum served in the Joint Army as a battalion doctor on the Eastern Front (Lemberg, Odessa) and as head of a hospital . After the end of the war he became senior physician in Leipzig and completed his habilitation in 1920. In 1923 he was appointed associate professor . From 1932 he was head of the surgical polyclinic of the St. Jakob Hospital, which was part of the Leipzig University Hospital . His teacher Erwin Payr gave him a brilliant certificate as a surgeon and university professor in 1933 . He considered Hohlbaum one of the best young surgeons. In 1933 Hohlbaum joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party . When Payr retired in 1937 and Wilhelm Rieder was appointed as his successor, Hohlbaum left the clinic. He settled in free practice.

Prague

Hohlbaum accepted the call to the chair of surgery as the successor to Kurt Strauss in Prague in 1941. When Reinhard Heydrich was brought seriously injured to the Na Bulovce hospital after the assassination attempt on May 27, 1942 , Hohlbaum came to the aid of his colleague Walter Dick . After Heydrich died after improving initially, the Berlin Nazi leadership raised no allegations against the two surgeons. Rather, Heinrich Himmler personally thanked Hohlbaum for Heydrich's surgical treatment.

For Hohlbaum, work in Prague remained very difficult. In 1882 the Karl Ferdinand University was divided into a German and a Czech university by the kuk administration in Vienna. Since the establishment of the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918), the insignia dispute (1934) and the closure of Charles University in Prague in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , there have been increasing tensions and conflicts. Hohlbaum tried to make up for what his fanatical Nazi predecessor Strauss had done to his colleagues and patients. During the current war, Hohlbaum's older son Harald died at the age of 29 on the Eastern Front near Smolensk. Hohlbaum's wife Adele b. Blumenwitz died in 1943 at the age of 52. Hohlbaum stayed with the work.

After the battle for Stalingrad, more and more wounded and sick soldiers streamed into Prague, which was overcrowded with refugees . Around 50,000 German wounded lay in 18 military hospitals . In spite of everything, teaching at the medical faculty still worked. The members of the student companies were able to continue their studies here at least for some time. As the last surgeon at the German University of Prague, Herbert Lang completed his habilitation in 1944 .

After the outbreak of the Prague uprising on May 5, 1945, Hohlbaum's colleague Arnold Jirásek , who was deposed in 1939, took over the German Surgical Clinic, which Hohlbaum, appointed a member of the German Academy of Sciences and Arts in Prague in December 1944 , accepted without protest. As in all other clinics and institutes now owned by the Czechs, the German doctors were handed over to the Czech authorities. The last rector of the German University in Prague, the neuropsychiatrist and SS-Untersturmführer Kurt Albrecht , was knocked down and hanged in his clinic. Hohlbaum was taken to the Pankrác prison and then to the Klecany internment camp north of Prague for field work . There a guard threw a detonator at his feet. The explosion severely injured the left lower leg. Hohlbaum was brought to the surgery department of the General Hospital in Prague on a farm wagon. According to the latest findings, the treatment was correct. After six weeks in the Královské Vinohrady hospital in Prague , Hohlbaum had himself transferred to the existing processing hospital .

Return to Saxony

On October 16, 1945 he came to Germany on a hospital train, to the surgery of the hospital in Bad Liebenstein . There the overdue amputation took place in the thigh. On December 21, 1945, through the surgery at the Waltershausen Hospital , Hohlbaum finally reached the Markkleeberg City Hospital near Leipzig . Here he saw his daughter-in-law Ruth and his grandson Klaus again. With 61 years hollow tree died nine days later at a sepsis . The University of Leipzig , his surgical home, paid his last respects.

Works

  • with Erwin Payr : The tumors of the stomach as an object of surgical treatment , in: Handbuch der Spezial Pathologie undherapie , 1921.
  • On Surgical Treatment of Duodenal Ulcer , 1923.
  • Surgery of the intestine (with O. Kleinschmidt), 1927.
  • Peritoneum , in: Diagnostic and therapeutic errors of surgery . Thieme, Leipzig 1926.
  • Stomach, Duodenum , in: Diagnostic and therapeutic errors of surgery , 1929.
  • Outer Hernias , in: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Errors of Surgery . Thieme, Leipzig 1926, pp. 181–244.
  • with Ernst Heller and Otto Kleinschmidt : diaphragm, internal hernias, intestinal canal <except duodenum, appendicitis, etc. Intestinal obstruction>, in: Diagnostic and therapeutic errors in surgery . Thieme, Leipzig 1928.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1931, Col. 1222.
  • Volker Klimpel: Josef Hohlbaum - surgeon in the vortex of time . Chirurgische Allgemeine , Volume 10, Issue 9 (2009), pp. 477-482.
  • Joseph Stingl, Ingrid Kästner, A. Mísková, V. Musil: [biography of Josef Hohlbaum]. Rozhledy v chirurgii: měsíčník Československé chirurgické společnosti 3/88 (2009), pp. 151–157. (Czech.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 213.
  2. ↑ Habilitation thesis: About the etiology of the patellar dislocation. A contribution to the development of the lower extremity, its difformities and joints .
  3. ^ The assassination attempt on Heydrich ( MS Word ; 41 kB)
  4. ↑ Harald Hohlbaum, also a doctor, was a member of the Corps Suevia Munich . KCL 1960, 114 , 1703.
  5. ↑ Kurt Albrecht
  6. ↑ Hans Kilian and others had assumed that treatment was refused for political reasons.
personal data
SURNAME Hohlbaum, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor in Leipzig and Prague
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberlindewiese , Austrian Silesia
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1945
Place of death Markkleeberg