Karl Wilhelm Clauberg

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Karl Wilhelm Clauberg (born December 30, 1893 in Bochum ; † June 15, 1985 in Immenstadt im Allgäu ) was a German hygienist , bacteriologist and university professor .

Life

Clauberg completed a medical degree at the University of Berlin from 1913 to 1919 , where he received his doctorate in 1921. med. received his doctorate . In the same year he received his license to practice medicine . He then worked as an assistant at the Poli Clinic and Surgical Clinic of this university, interrupted by visiting the Social Hygiene Academy in Charlottenburg in the winter semester of 1922/23. In 1926 he went to the Pathological-Bacteriological Institute of the Auguste-Viktoria-Hospital in Berlin-Schöneberg as an assistant and in 1927 to the Medical Investigation Office Magdeburg. He was then u. a. active at the Municipal Kaiser and Kaiserin Friedrich Children's Hospital . In 1929 he was the founder and managing director of the Economic Bacteriologists Association and belonged to the Berlin branch of the International Society for Empirical Philosophy .

At the time of National Socialism , he headed the bacteriological department of the Hygiene Institute at the Main Health Office in Berlin from 1933. From 1935 to 1939 he headed the bacteriological-serological department in the so-called "Horst Wessel Hospital" . In 1935 he became a part-time associate professor for hygiene at the Technical University of Berlin and, two years later, for hygiene and bacteriology at the University of Berlin. Clauberg, who in 1929 of Hygiene and Bacteriology at the University of Berlin habilitation had held there since 1930 as a lecturer lectures on hygiene.

From 1939 to 1945 Clauberg was director of the Berlin Hygiene Institute, which was affiliated to the Department for General Hygiene, Disease Control and Bathing (Department IV) of the Main Health Office. He was also Head of Department IV of the City of Berlin's Main Health Office. After the beginning of the Second World War he was the first camp doctor in Stalag III a from September to December 1939 .

After the end of the war he was dismissed from office in 1945 and then founded the medical-diagnostic institute KW Clauberg in Berlin-Zehlendorf . Since 1950 he has been an expert on paternity reports for the German Society for Anthropology . He also headed the bacteriological-serological department at the Evangelical Hubertus Hospital and finally at the Municipal Behring Hospital in Berlin-Zehlendorf.

His research focus was in the area of ​​general hygiene and infection theory. a. Studies on immunity, epidemiology and bacteriological and serological methodology are presented. Clauberg became known through the development of the Clauberg nutrient media for the bacteriological diagnosis of diphtheria bacteria and the dysentery bacteria receptor analysis. He was the author of more than 200 scientific publications.

In the course of the release of former concentration camp doctor Carl Clauberg from Soviet captivity, he turned to the German press in October 1955, saying that he was not identical to his namesake.

Clauberg was married to Elsa, nee Göhl. The couple had a child.

Fonts (selection)

  • A contribution to the anatomy and physiology of the infant stomach in pylorospasm , Berlin, Med. Diss., 1921
  • with Walter Dubislav : Systematic Dictionary of Philosophy. Felix Meiner, Leipzig 1923

literature

  • Heinrich Weder: Social hygiene and pragmatic health policy in the Weimar Republic using the example of social and industrial hygienist Benno Chajes 1880–1938. Matthiesen, Husum 2000 (Treatises on the history of medicine and natural sciences, 87) ISBN 978-3-7868-4087-9 .
  • Ernst Klee : The personal lexicon for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Heinrich Weder: Social hygiene and pragmatic health policy in the Weimar Republic using the example of the social and industrial hygienist Benno Chajes 1880-1938. , Husum 2000, p. 400
  2. ^ Heinrich Weder: Social hygiene and pragmatic health policy in the Weimar Republic using the example of the social and industrial hygienist Benno Chajes 1880-1938. , Husum 2000, p. 142
  3. ↑ Uwe Mai: Prisoners of War in Brandenburg, Stalag III A in Luckenwalde 1939–1945 , Metropol Verlag Berlin, 1999, ISBN 3-932482-25-5 , pp. 56 and 58
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 94
  5. ↑ a b Karl Wilhelm Clauberg at www.munzinger.de
  6. ↑ a b Who is who? , Das Deutsche who's who , Volume 17, 1971, p. 152
personal data
SURNAME Clauberg, Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist, bacteriologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1985
Place of death Immenstadt in the Allgäu