Julius Reincke
Johann Julius Reincke (born December 5, 1842 in Altona , † November 10, 1906 in Hamburg ) was a German physician and politician.
Life and work
Reincke came from a long-established Altona family, his father was the merchant Theodor Reincke (1805-1882), who had been temporarily elected to the Danish Imperial Council by the Holstein meeting of estates and who was later a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . After graduating from high school, Reincke studied medicine and zoology in Erlangen , Heidelberg and Kiel . In 1861 he became a member of the Bubenruthia Erlangen fraternity . He completed his studies in 1866 and then worked on morphological studies in the Mediterranean and on Heligoland . From 1869 Reincke worked as an assistant doctor at the St. Georg General Hospital in the internal department. He later worked as a family doctor. He became known in Hamburg, among other things, for the free treatment of poor patients. He was able to afford this because he also had a large number of wealthy patients whose payments ensured his livelihood. From 1875, in addition to his work as a general practitioner , he also worked as a physician , comparable to a current medical officer, and pharmacy auditor for the city of Hamburg.
During the cholera epidemic of 1892 he supported Robert Koch's criticism of the sanitary conditions in the city and called for reforms in the city's health system. After the epidemic was contained, the citizens demanded that the health system be taken over by a supporter of Robert Koch. Reincke was then appointed medical inspector in 1893 and a short time later medical adviser. In this office, which he held until 1904, he carried out renovations and renovations in large areas of the city at the Hamburg Senate - in part against the bitter resistance of the landowners concerned. The Hygiene Institute , the Tropical Medicine Institute and the Hanseatic city's first modern waste incineration plant were founded in his Aegide . Reincke was also at times an extraordinary member of the Imperial Health Office and a full member of the Imperial Health Council .
politics
Reincke was an advocate of the establishment of an empire and a supporter of Otto von Bismarck . He belonged to the National Liberal Party . In 1879 he was elected to the Hamburg citizenship in the group of notables , of which he was a member until 1891. There he was a member of the upper-class faction of the right .
family
Reincke had been married to Emma Christine Gries (1855–1916), a daughter of the businessman and member of the Hamburg citizenship Heinrich Gries , since May 23, 1877 . Heinrich Reincke was his son.
Honors
Because of his services Reincke was awarded the Order of the Crown, Second Class, by Kaiser Wilhelm II . He never put it on, however, since it was - as the convinced Hanseatic Reincke saw - "an order of a foreign, sovereign prince". Reincke honored his hometown with several street names : From 1911 on, Reinckeplatz in Eppendorf bore his name. When this disappeared in the course of the expansion of Tarpenbekstrasse and Breitenfelder Strasse to Ring 2 in 1964, the newly created Reinckeweg in Hummelsbüttel was named after him and his son Heinrich as a replacement . At the beginning of 2009, the Eppendorf / Winterhude regional committee of the Hamburg-Nord district assembly decided, at the request of the SPD and FDP , to name a new junction from Martinistraße in Eppendorf, Julius-Reincke-Stieg . This is only a few meters away from the old Reinckeplatz .
Fonts
- Hamburg in a scientific and medical context : Dedicated as a festive gift to the participants of the 73rd meeting of German naturalists and doctors. L. Voss, Hamburg 1901.
- Cholera in Hamburg and its relationship to water . Under: III. Scientific papers in the yearbook of the Hamburg Scientific Institutions for the year 1893 , pp. 1–102
- Hamburg in terms of natural history and medicine . Dedicated as a festive gift to the members and participants of the 49th Assembly of German Naturalists and Physicians. Friederichsen & Co, Hamburg 1876
literature
- Hakim Raffat, Who was Julius Reincke? in: Der Eppendorfer, issue 04/2011, p. 11.
- Julius Reincke (Nekrolog), in: German quarterly journal for public health care , Volume 39, F. Vieweg and Son , Braunschweig 1907, p. XIII F.
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Gender Book , Volume 63, p. 502.
- ↑ On the public examination of the students of the Royal High School in Altona [...] , Altona 1861, p. 35, digitized .
- ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 38-39.
- ↑ a b c German Gender Book , Volume 63, p. 510.
- ↑ as a physicist member of the Medicinal-Collegium (p. 96, digitized version ) and member of the Museum Commission of the Natural History Museum, (p. 65, digitized version ), in: Hamburgischer Staats-Kalender for the year 1876 , Meißner, Hamburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reincke, Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reincke, Johann Julius (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicians and politicians, Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altona |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1906 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |