Karl Gelbke

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Karl Hermann Gelbke (born July 9, 1899 in Rochlitz ; died January 29, 1965 in Leipzig ) was a German doctor.

Life

Karl Gelbke was born as the son of the doctor Fritz Gelbke in Rochlitz. His school days were interrupted by his participation in the First World War. His war experiences had shaped him. In 1919 he passed his school leaving examination . From 1919 he studied medicine in Jena , Greifswald and Leipzig . There he received his doctorate in 1926 , Dr. med. He practiced as a medical doctor in Leipzig and joined the KPD in 1927 . Gelbke was also active in the Red Aid , Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund , the Marxist Evening School (MASCH). He appeared against § 218 in public meetings. The youngGerda Taro was strongly influenced by the "red doctor". Gelbke and his Jewish wife Dina worked closely with the resistance fighters of the Georg Schumann - Otto Engert - Kurt Kresse group. He supported the Dominican Father Aurelius Arkenau , who saved the lives of over 100 persecuted people during the Nazi era . In Karl Gelbke's house in Leipzig-Gohlis , the Gestapo carried out several house searches without being successful.

In 1945 he became a medical officer and took care of the fight against TB in Leipzig.

The 1st German People's Council was constituted at the 2nd People's Congress , which took place on March 17th and 18th, 1948 in Berlin. 400 delegates were elected to the body by the delegates of the congress - including 100 from the western zones. On May 30, 1949, he was replaced by the 2nd German People's Council. Karl Gelbke was a member of the 1st People's Council.

He became Ministerialrat for the health system in the state of Saxony. Here he made a contribution to the establishment of polyclinics . 1952 he was commissioned with the perception of a professor with chair for social hygiene at the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig . He founded the "Institute for Social Hygiene", which he headed until 1959.

He was a member of the City Council of Leipzig and a member of the Leipzig District Assembly .

From 1950 to 1958 he was head of the medical service of the KVP and in 1955 in the same function of the NVA . A conversion of the Greifswald Medical Faculty into a military medical academy intended by the GDR Ministry for Higher Education and Technical Education was averted in 1955 by a student strike. State Secretary Gerhard Harig and Gelbke told the university that the establishment of a military medical section was acceptable. In July 1958 he resigned as Colonel i. R. from the service of the NVA.

In the 1960s he was medical director of the clinics of the medical faculty in Leipzig. He retired in September 1964. On January 27, 1965, he died of a heart attack on the way to university . Gelbke was buried in the Leipzig south cemetery.

Honors

Publications

  • On the statistics of the operative treatment of adnexal tumors from the material of the Leipzig University Women's Clinic during the years 1922–1923 . Oldecop, Oschatz 1926. (Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 1926)
  • The state health policy of the German Democratic Republic and the medical faculty of the Karl Marx University . In: Festschrift for the 550th anniversary of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . Editor: Josef Schleifstein u. a. Edited by the Rector and Senate of Karl Marx University. Karl Marx University, Leipzig 1959, pp. 153–160.

Archival material

literature

  • Gelbke, Karl . In: Federal Ministry for All German Issues (ed.): SBZ biography. A biographical reference book on the Soviet occupation zone , compiled by the investigative committee of freedom lawyers . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Bonn 1964, p. 104.
  • Prof. Dr. med. Karl Gelbke . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from July 25, 1964 supplement. ISSN  0232-3222
  • Comrade Prof. Dr. Karl Gelbke passed away . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from January 29, 1965.
  • W. Leirich: Karl Gelbke - anti-fascist and socialist military doctor . In: Journal of Military Medicine . Deutscher Militärverlag, Berlin 1968, pp. 421–425. [With portrait] ISSN  0044-3093
  • Kurt Steude: Prof. Dr. med. Karl Gelbke - a life as a doctor and communist . In: Doctors on the side of the working class. Contributions to the history of the alliance of the German working class with the medical intelligentsia . Edited by Kurt Kühn. 2., through Ed. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit 1977, pp. 188–197.
  • Gerd Moschke: Karl Gelbke . In: Well-known professors at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . University of Leipzig, Leipzig 1982, 2, pp. 36–41 [with photo]
  • Franz-J. Lemmens: Karl Gelbke. Biography of an anti-fascist doctor, health politician, military doctor and university professor . 2 volumes. Leipzig 1984 (Univ., Diss. A, 1984) [Volume 2 contains bibliography]
  • Achim Thom, Horst Spaar: Medicine in Fascism. Symposium on the fate of medicine in the era of fascism in Germany 1933–1945. Protocol . Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1985, p. 234 ff. ( = Medicine and Society 26)
  • Leipzig owes a lot to Karl Gelbke . In: Leipzig's New. Left monthly newspaper for politics, culture and history . 7th year Leipzig 1999, 14, p. 5.
  • Born in the revolution, preserved in the class struggle. History of the KPD regional organization Leipzig-West Saxony . Commission for research into the history of the local labor movement at the Leipzig district management of the SED, Leipzig 1986.
  • Student rebellion in the early GDR. The resistance against the transformation of the Greifswald Medical Faculty into a military medical training center in 1955. In: Contributions to the history of the University of Greifswald . Volume 2, Steiner, Stuttgart 2001. ISBN 3515077049 Table of contents Partly digitized
  • Max Schwimmer : Letters and Diaries . Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2004. Letters to Dina and Karl Gelbke. directory

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Medicine in Fascism , p. 234.
  2. ^ Saxon biography of Gerta Taro
  3. ^ Father Aurelius Arkenau, a down-to-earth Catholic in the Leipzig resistance. In: tdh-online.de
  4. ^ Scientific journal. Karl Marx University Leipzig . Social and Linguistic Series, Volume 34. Leipzig 1985, p. 147.
  5. ^ "Dr med Gelbke, Karl, Ministerialdirekt, Saßstrasse 22". (Leipzig address book 1949)
  6. ^ Until the state of Saxony was dissolved in 1952 .
  7. ^ Student revolt in the early GDR. Resistance to the transformation of the Greifswald Medical Faculty into a military medical training center in 1955.
  8. ^ Anti-fascist resistance fighters and deserving socialists, Ehrenhain Südfriedhof Leipzig
  9. ↑ SBZ biography .
  10. ↑ Kippenbergstraße , LeipzigLexikon, accessed on June 17, 2018.
  11. ↑ Prof. Karl Gelbke 65 years
  12. ^ New Germany of August 24, 1974.
  13. ↑ Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig Horst Kurt Klaus Fleißner 1987.
  14. ↑ Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig Peter Karl Lommatzsch 1988.
personal data
SURNAME Gelbke, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gelbke, Karl Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochlitz
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1965
Place of death Leipzig