Karl Altmann (venereologist)

Karl Altmann (born February 4, 1880 in Breslau ; died April 2, 1968 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German venereologist who taught at the Goethe University in Frankfurt .

Life

Altmann's father was a Protestant factory owner in Breslau. Like his grandfather, Altmann was of Jewish faith. In 1900 he passed his matriculation examination in the "Realgymnasium am Zwinger". He then studied medicine in Munich and Breslau. After the state examination in 1905, he received his license to practice medicine in 1906 . Also in Breslau he did his doctorate in 1906 with Karl Bonhoeffer .

In 1906 Altmann was an assistant at the Allerheiligen Hospital in Breslau. From 1907 to 1909 he worked at the Royal Institute for Experimental Therapy in Frankfurt . In 1910 he became head of its bacteriological department. In 1911 he became senior physician at the skin clinic in Frankfurt, and a year later senior physician at the municipal hospital. During the First World War he was the overseer of three field hospitals with a total of 700 beds. In 1916 his habilitation followed in Frankfurt am Main . After the end of the World War he became a professor in Frankfurt. He also worked as a dermatologist at the municipal hospital .

As a Jewish university professor, he was affected by the 1933 law to restore the civil service and was dismissed both as a professor and as the director of the dermatology clinic. His professional practice was boycotted. In 1940 he was committed to the surgical hospital in Quiigart . After differences with the SS chief doctor, he was threatened with deportation . In 1944, however, he again took on a leading role in a dermatology clinic. After the end of the Second World War he returned to Frankfurt. Until 1949 he was head of the University Hospital in Frankfurt am Main .

Works (selection)

• About a cystic lump in the spinal cord. Altman and Friebe, Breslau 1906 (dissertation).
• Treatment of diseases of the hairy scalp . Halle 1912 (together with Karl Herxheimer ).
• Erysipelas . Erysipeloid . Pyocyaneus. Diphtheria . Scleroma. Anthrax . Plaut-Vincent . Snot . Granuloma teleangiectaticum , actinomycosis . Animal parasites . Berlin 1929 (together with Hans Biberstein and Kurt Bierbaum).

literature

• Renate Heuer , Siegbert Wolf (ed.): The Jews of the Frankfurt University . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-593-35502-7 , p. 14-15 .