Joseph Kimmig

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Joseph Kimmig , also Josef Kimmig (born January 31, 1909 in Bad Griesbach in the Black Forest , † September 10, 1976 in Hamburg ) was a German dermatologist and university professor.

Life

Kimmig completed after his Abitur in Sasbach a chemistry degree at the University of Munich , he with promotion to Dr. phil. nat. completed. He then completed a second medical degree at the University of Kiel . From 1939 Kimmig headed the chemical laboratory at the Kiel University Dermatology Clinic. In Kiel, Kimmig also did research with Josef Vonkennel on chemotherapy for gonorrhea and sulfonamides . He obtained his doctorate in 1942. med. and in 1943 moved with Vonkennel to the University of Leipzig , where Vonkennel became a full professor of skin and venereal diseases. Kimmig was a member of the NSDAP and SA . Vonkennel developed “together with his assistant at the time, Dr. Kimmig developed the experimental preparation DDS (diaminodiphenyl sulfone), which was tested at Vonkennel's suggestion in Buchenwald and claimed fatalities. "The health care representative Karl Brandt called Kimmig one of the" leading dermatologists of the Nazi era ".

After the Second World War , Kimmig worked as a private lecturer and senior physician at the University Skin Clinic in Heidelberg. He completed his habilitation in 1948 at the University of Heidelberg with the text "Experimental and clinical contributions to chemotherapy with sulfonamides". From 1951 Kimmig was a full professor of dermatology at the University of Hamburg and was director of the university skin clinic in Hamburg-Eppendorf . Kimmig stayed in Hamburg until his retirement . In 1959 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

For the first time in Germany, Kimmig and Vonkennel succeeded in isolating an effective antibiotic from the Mycoine strain . Kimmig researched in particular on " chemotherapy of dermato-venerological diseases", mycoses and skin tuberculosis.

Fonts (selection)

  • Walther Schönfeld, Josef Kimmig: sulfonamides and penicillins , Enke, Stuttgart 1948.
  • Joseph Kimmig u. Michael Jänner: Atlas of skin and sexually transmitted diseases / [Gre. from:] Frieboes; Schönfeld. Continued by person (s) Frieboes, Walther; Schönfeld, Walter; Kimmig, Joseph Issue 3., revised. Ed., Thieme, Stuttgart 1966.
  • Kimmig, Joseph: Handbook of skin and venereal diseases , Springer, Berlin 1962.
  • Joseph Kimmig, Michael Jänner: Pocket Atlas of Skin and Venereal Diseases for Studies and Practice , Thieme, Stuttgart 1978.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Peter Altmeyer, Volker Paech: Encyclopedia Dermatology, Allergology, Environmental Medicine . 2., completely revised Edition. Springer Medicine, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-540-89542-8 , entry on Kimming, Josef .
  2. a b c d Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 309.
  3. Report Humanversuche ZSt 413 AR 1463/65, Bl. 21. Quoted in: Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, the Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 335.
  4. Member entry of Josef Kimmig at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.