Karl Velhagen

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Karl Velhagen ( also Karl Adolf Velhagen; born September 22, 1897 in Chemnitz , † December 19, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German ophthalmologist and university professor.

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The son of the Chemnitz ophthalmologist Carl Velhagen studied after participating in the First World War from 1916 to 1918 at the universities of Munich , Freiburg and Leipzig 1918-1922 medicine to promotion to Dr. med. in Halle. The habilitation in ophthalmology followed in 1930 at the University of Halle (Saale) on: Introductory studies on the occurrence of active and neutrophobic substances in the eye . From 1927 to 1929 he was an assistant at the pharmacological institutes of the universities of Freiburg and Berlin and from 1929 to 1938 senior physician at the eye clinic of the University of Halle . From 1933 Velhagen belonged to the SA , from 1934 to the National Socialist Fliegerkorp and the National Socialist Teachers' Association and from 1937 to the NSDAP . From 1938 he was a member of the National Socialist German Medical Association . He was also a member of the Reich Air Protection Association . 1937/38 he worked as a representative on the chair for ophthalmology at the University of Cologne . From 1938 to 1945 Velhagen was a full professor of ophthalmology at the University of Greifswald and director of the University Eye Clinic Greifswald . During the Second World War , he was also a department doctor at the Greifswald reserve hospital .

In autumn 1945 Velhagen was dismissed because of his membership in the NSDAP; In the absence of a suitable substitute, however, he was allowed to stay at the university - as his own representative - and continue his office and all related activities. The final dismissal was pronounced in early May 1946 and took effect immediately. A substitute had meanwhile been found. Then Velhagen opened a private practice in Greifswald. When a dispute arose between him and his successor at the university soon afterwards, Velhagen was advised (from Berlin) to leave Greifswald and go to Chemnitz, where the opening of the municipal eye clinic was in prospect. From 1947 to 1950 Velhagen worked in Chemnitz. The local asylum for the blind had been converted into an eye clinic. After his time in Chemnitz, Velhagen again worked as full professor and clinic director, initially from 1950 to 1958 at the University of Leipzig, then from 1958 to 1967 at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In the Leipzig years, from 1955 to 1957, he also worked as dean. In 1953 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . From 1963 to 1972 he was Vice-Rector of the Academy for Medical Training in Berlin.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • with Harry Weissberg: The human eye. Jaeger, Leipzig 1938.
  • Organ of vision and internal secretion (= contemporary ophthalmology. Vol. 2). Bergmann, Munich et al. 1943.
  • Teaching book for the ophthalmologic auxiliary staff. Thieme, Leipzig 1949; 3rd edition 1964.
  • Boards for testing the sense of color. 21st, revised edition of the Stilling-Hertel tables. Thieme, Stuttgart 1952; last: with Dieter Broschmann: 32nd, unchanged edition. Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 2000.
  • as publisher: magazine Der Augenarzt. Thieme, Stuttgart and Leipzig, around 1958 to 1982
  • Propaedeutic ophthalmological operation theory. Thieme, Leipzig 1964.
  • Plower's hook boards to test the sense of color. Thieme, Leipzig 1980.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , pp. 638 .
  • Rudolf Sachsenweger: Karl Velhagen. In: Well-known professors at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. Vol. 2, Leipzig 1986, pp. 78-83.
  • Peter Schneck:  Velhagen, Karl . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Stephan Töpel: The Greifswald University Eye Clinic under National Socialism with special attention to its medical staff. Dissertation, Greifswald 2014 ( online ).
  • Stephan Töpel, Frank Tost: Ophthalmology in National Socialism: The Greifswalder appointment procedure 1938. In: Clinical monthly sheets for ophthalmology. Vol. 230 (2013), pp. 1146-1153.
  • Karl Velhagen: A life for ophthalmology. In: Günter Albrecht, Wolfgang Hartwig (Hrsg.): Doctors. Memories, experiences, confessions. The morning, Berlin (East) 1972.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , pp. 638 .
  2. ^ Karl Velhagen in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
  3. ^ Member entry by Carl Velhagen at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 18, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Velhagen, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Velhagen, Karl Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1990
Place of death Berlin