Karl Friedrich Schmidhuber

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Karl Friedrich Schmidhuber (born February 21, 1895 in Stuttgart , † August 23, 1967 in Cologne-Lindenthal ) was a German dentist .

biography

After graduating from secondary school in Esslingen in 1914, he began studying medicine and dentistry at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In Tübingen he joined the Scotland team. He received his doctorate as Dr. med. as well as Dr. med. dent. In January 1925 he became a regular assistant and head of the oral surgery department in the Bonn Clinic for Oral, Dental and Jaw Diseases. In December 1928 he completed his habilitation in dentistry and became a private lecturer in Bonn.

From April 1933 to May 1934 Schmidhuber ran the university clinic and polyclinic for oral, dental and jaw diseases in Bonn on behalf of his teacher, the arrested Alfred Kantorowicz .

In May 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 3.512.460) and from 1935 he belonged to the NS student union , from 1937 to the SS as Oberscharführer and from 1939 to the NSDÄB .

From April 1935 he was initially acting as a substitute, then as scheduled associate professor for dentistry and director of the university clinic and polyclinic for oral, dental and maxillary patients at the University of Heidelberg (he was then appointed professor in 1940). On June 19, 1936 he became a Nazi lecturer association . In the SS, Schmidhuber achieved the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer in 1941 .

After the Americans took Heidelberg at the end of March 1945, Schmidhuber was arrested and interned. Among others, the then rector of Heidelberg University, KH Bauer, campaigned for Schmidhuber's release. So it says in Bauer's letter to the military government:

"The five members of the medical faculty who had never been members of the party have already reported to the CIC that Schmidhuber was probably the party's representative, but that he also used the position to avoid radical influences on the part of the party at all possible to repel and protect the non-Nazis in their work. In particular, Prof. Schmidhuber took a protective position in front of the Jewish wives of deposed Heidelberg professors. "

Schmidhuber was released from custody in autumn 1946 and the usual court proceedings followed as part of denazification . At first he was charged as the main culprit, but then classified as a minor and finally as a fellow traveler. In the summer of 1951 Schmidhuber was appointed to the professorship for oral, dental and maxillofacial medicine at the University of Cologne , where he worked until his retirement in 1965. From 1955 to 1957 he was Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne.

Schmidhuber, who mainly worked in surgery, dealt in particular with dental radiology and border areas that come into contact with dermatology and ear, nose and throat medicine . Experimentally, he has done a significant amount of work to clarify the contribution of the teeth and the temporomandibular joint head to the growth in length of the lower jaw. His scientific findings were reflected in several contributions to the concise dictionary of dentistry as a whole , which his dental teacher Alfred Kantorowicz published.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Münzenmaier (ed.): History of the homeland Scotland Tübingen 1849-1924.
  2. ^ Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich". Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-486-57989-4 , p. 292.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 544.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Eckart; Volker Sellin, Eike Wolgast (Ed.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism. Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-540-21442-9 .
  5. ↑ UAH PA 5677; Dean K: H: Bauer to military government, October 10, 1945.
  6. ↑ The history of the Heidelberg University Oral, Dental and Jaw Clinic.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Eckart; Volker Sellin, Eike Wolgast (Ed.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism. Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-540-21442-9 .
  8. ^ E. von Schnitzer, in: Zahnärztliche Welt. 10 year (1955), p. 85 ff.
  9. ^ E. Harndt, in: German Dental Journal. 20 (1965), p. 255.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidhuber, Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dentist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1967
Place of death Cologne-Lindenthal