Karl Wezler

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Karl Wezler (born May 27, 1900 in Weißenhorn ; † July 17, 1987 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German physiologist and university professor .

Life

After completing his school career, Wezler completed a medical degree at the Universities of Würzburg and Munich . With the dissertation on Lamblia intestinalis and its importance for human pathology , published in 1926, Wezler received his doctorate in Munich. med. He then worked as a research assistant at the Physiological Institute of the University of Munich under Otto Frank , where he completed his habilitation in 1932.

From 1938, Wezler was the successor to Albrecht Bethe Professor of Physiology at the University of Frankfurt am Main , where he was head of Weigertstrasse. 3 the Institute for Animal Physiology , which worked together with the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biophysics (under Boris Rajewsky ) and the Institute for Vegetative Physiology and Pharmacology (under Kurt Felix ) housed in the same building . Wezler developed a climate chamber and operated with Rudolf Thauer the Elder during the Second World War . Ä. Research for the Air Force and Navy "on humans themselves and on dogs without anesthesia" as well as on the "effects of extreme temperatures on the human organism". In 1942, Wezler was temporarily involved in the DFG Fundamentals and Conditions of Heat Regulation project, which was carried out by Thauer, who in 1943 switched to the Physiological Institute in Danzig, where he became a professor in 1944, as director. Like the lecturer Thauer, Wezler took part in the conference on medical questions in distress at sea and winter death on October 26th and 27th, 1942, where a lecture was also given on the "attempts at hypothermia" in the Dachau concentration camp .

After the end of the war, Wezler was briefly dismissed from the position of professor by the American military government in 1946 and then returned to his functions as professor and institute director at the University of Frankfurt. Wezler became dean there in 1949. Wezler's main research areas were the regulation of the heart, blood pressure, the vegetative nervous system and temperature as well as the "elasticity of blood vessels" and the "flow laws of the circulatory system". Wezler retired in 1969 .

Memberships and honors

Wezler was listed in the register of the Reich Medical Association as a member of the NSDAP and the NS-Ärztebund .

Wezler belonged to the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature , was a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and an honorary member of the German Society for Angiology - Society for Vascular Medicine eV

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b R. Jacob: History of cardiac physiology within the framework of the German Society for Circulatory Research . In: Berndt Lüderitz, Gunther Arnold (Ed.): 75 years of the German Society for Cardiology - cardiovascular research. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2002, p. 163
  2. a b c d e Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 674f
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 621.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945 2001, p. 189.
  5. Member entry of Karl Wezler at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.
  6. Honorary members of the German Society for Angiology - Society for Vascular Medicine. Accessed on January 23, 2020 .