Konrad Küster (doctor)

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Konrad Küster

Konrad Küster (born February 2, 1842 in Kalkofen auf Wollin ; † September 17, 1931 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and publicist.

Live and act

After attending the Marienstiftsgymnasium in Stettin, he studied medicine at the universities of Bonn, Würzburg and Berlin. During his studies in 1861 he became a member of the Frankonia fraternity in Bonn . After obtaining a doctorate as Dr. med. in Berlin he settled there as a general practitioner . As such, he later received the title of Privy Medical Council. In the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Franco-German War in 1870/71, he took part in the Prussian service as a troop doctor.

Konrad Küster at the Bundestag of the General German Burschenbund (ADB) in Frankenhausen on Kyffhäuser - Whitsun 1910

In 1883 he became president of the Festcommers old fraternities, split off from the General Deputy Convent (ADC), the founder of the General German Burschenbund as a reform fraternity (to shape student life in the sense of the original fraternity ) and at the same time its long-term chairman. He became an honorary member of all around 50 fraternities that had joined the ADB until the day of his death in 1931. In 1883 he was a co-founder of the Neogermania Berlin fraternity .

In his endeavor to replace the classical humanistic with a scientific and modern language school education, he founded the German Academic Association , in which educational reformers, representatives of naturalism and women's rights activists gathered. From 1887 to 1905 he published the Allgemeine Deutsche Universitätszeitung as its organ . It is noteworthy that women could also join this association. The Women's Welfare Association later developed from the women's group . He also worked as a board member or 2nd chairman of the "German Warrior League", as chairman of the "Association for Popular Entertainment" and as a board member of the Schiller Theater in Berlin.

Konrad Küster died in Berlin in 1931 at the age of 89 and was buried in the old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling of the cemetery carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939, Küster's remains were reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin.

Fonts

  • De morborum cutaneorum divisione nomenclatura , Berlin 1865. (Diss.)
  • About the troop doctors in the field . From my own experiences, Berlin 1872.
  • Doctor and audience. Medicinal sketches for laypeople and general practitioners , Berlin 1874.
  • On the reform of the fraternities: Speech by the president of the festival summer of old fraternities, given the day after the festival at Tivoli in Berlin on January 21, 1883 , Berlin 1885.
  • Raising children on a scientific basis , Gütersloh 1897.
  • The Griserin and his adversaries . A scientific tragedy. An escape to the public against lies and appearances, Berlin 1905.
  • Serious and cheerful things from a long time . War memories of 1866 and 1870/71, Berlin 1907.
  • Collected writings , 3 vol., Berlin 1907–1908.
  • A lad's cheerful nature . Memories, Marburg / Lahn 1911.
  • Look into the present and the future . Collected war essays, Berlin 1917.
  • Germany as a people's state with paper currency and interest-free money , Berlin 1920.
  • Key to solving the world riddle , Leipzig 1925.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar, 4 (1931)
  • Richard Wrede: Das Geistige Berlin, Vol. 2, Berlin 1898
  • Julius Leopold Pagel : Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of the 19th Century, Berlin 1901
  • P.Wentzke / G. Heer: History of the German Burschenschaften, 4 vols., Heidelberg 1919–1929 [with sexton picture]
  • Helmut Krausmüller / Ernst Angerer / Martin Pabst: The history of the General German Burschenbund (ADB) 1813-1933 and the fate of the former ADB fraternities, Jever 1989
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 203-204.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Krausmüller / Ernst Angerer / Martin Pabst: The history of the General German Burschenbund (ADB) 1813-1933 and the fate of the former ADB fraternities. (= Series of publications by the Student History Association of the CC. Issue 28), Jever 1989, 7, 77.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 305, 472.
personal data
SURNAME Sexton, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Lime kiln on Wollin
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1931
Place of death Berlin