Josef Kapfhammer
Josef Kapfhammer (born April 3, 1888 in Nuremberg ; † March 27, 1968 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German pharmacist, chemist, physician and nutritional physiologist.
Three studies
After an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Nuremberg from 1903 to 1906, Kapfhammer studied pharmacy at the Friedrich Alexander University . There he became a member of the Corps Bavaria Erlangen in 1909 . After passing the pharmacy exam in 1910, he worked for several years in pharmacies in Bremen and Berlin . He also began studying chemistry in 1912 , which he had to interrupt as an army pharmacist during World War I. 1919 doctorate he in Erlangen, Dr. phil. Simultaneously studying medicine in Erlangen and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin he finished with the state examination and the medical doctorate. In 1920 he became an assistant to Max Rubner at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Occupational Physiology in Berlin. Since 1922 with Karl Thomas at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry at the University of Leipzig , he habilitated there in 1925 in Physiology with the text: The free amino groups in protein .
In 1928 he accepted the chair for physiological chemistry at the University of Freiburg and succeeded Konrad Knoop as director of the institute. In 1934/35 he was dean of the medical faculty. From 1937 a member of the NSDAP , he took part in the conference on medical issues in distress at sea and winter death on October 26th and 27th, 1942, where a lecture was also given on the "attempts at hypothermia" in the Dachau concentration camp . In 1944, when his institute was destroyed, he lost all work opportunities and valuable work logs. So he turned to teaching in particular and devoted himself to rebuilding the German Red Cross and founded the DRK blood donation center in Baden-Baden .
After the end of the Second World War , Kapfhammer was a member of the denazification committee of the Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg. The Corps Palatia Strasbourg awarded him the ribbon in 1952, as did his brother Volker in 1951. In 1956 he retired .
Honorary positions
- President of the DRK regional association in South Baden (1949–1965)
- 1st Federal Doctor of the DRK
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- August W. Holldorf: Kapfhammer, Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 132 ( digitized version ).
- www.biochemie.uni-freiburg.de
Web links
- Literature by and about Josef Kapfhammer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 20/416.
- ^ A b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 298 f.
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 33/303.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kapfhammer, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and nutritional physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1968 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |