Kurt Hofmeier

Kurt Fritz Robert Hofmeier (born September 9, 1896 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † August 27, 1989 in Heidelberg ) was a German pediatrician and university lecturer.

Life

Kurt Hofmeier was the son of Lieutenant General Fritz Hofmeier and his wife Paula geb. Ram. After graduating from high school in 1914, Hofmeier was in the field throughout the First World War , most recently as a lieutenant . He then began to study medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg . On February 5, 1919 he renounced (like Hermann Hengsberger before him ) with the Corps Hasso-Nassovia . When he was inactive , he moved to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . With a dissertation on the diphtheria he was in 1922 in Würzburg Dr. med. PhD. First he worked at the Würzburg Children's Clinic and at the Hygiene Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1926 he went to Georg Bessau at the children's clinic at the Leipzig University Hospital .

Berlin

As a specialist , he ran a medical practice in Berlin-Zehlendorf from 1927 to 1934 . For two years he was a scientific assistant at the Reich Health Office . From 1929 he was a doctor at the “Haus Kinderschutz” reform home in Berlin-Dahlem . In 1933 he became head of the outpatient clinic for nervous and difficult-to-educate children at the Kaiser- und Kaiserin-Friedrich Children's Hospital . From 1934 to 1938 he was director of the municipal children's hospital and maternity home in Berlin-Charlottenburg . At the same time he was with the Reichsanstalt for combating infant and child mortality . In 1938 he completed his habilitation at Bessau, who had meanwhile taken up the chair at the Charité , and then worked there as a private lecturer in paediatrics. In 1938 he became director of the Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria-Haus in Berlin-Charlottenburg. He was chairman of the supervisory board of the German medical insurance .

Strasbourg and Stuttgart

In 1941 he became full professor at the University of Strasbourg . He called for the inclusion of National Socialist ideas in pediatrics. Hofmeier had joined the NSDAP in 1931 and the NS-Ärztebund in 1932, and he was also a member of the NS motor corps . As a spell leader of the HJ he was "advisor to the HJ headquarters". From 1942 he was a member of the advisory board of the German Society for Constitutional Research. After the Second World War he was denazified in Tübingen . In 1948 he settled in Stuttgart as a pediatrician . From 1956 he held a teaching position at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

Hofmeier was married twice and had four children.

Fonts

• Physical and mental education of children and adolescents: A lecture series , Enke, Stuttgart 1938 (editor)
• The English disease (rickets): essence and Combat , Reichsgesundheitsverl., Berlin / Vienna 1944 (belongs to the series of publications of the Reich Committee for Public Health Service; H. 35)

Awards

• Iron Cross 1st class

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Who is who? , Das Deutsche who's who, Volume 18, Societäts-Verl, 1974, p. 438
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 68/958.
3. ↑ Dissertation: Severe cases of croupy pneumonia in childhood .
4. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The importance of genetic makeup for pediatrics .
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 266
6. ↑ ^{a b c} corp table of Hasso-Nassovia 1959
7. ↑ Th. Lennert (Berlin) ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Michael Buddrus : Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. , Munich 2003, p. 914
9. ↑ Hofmeier, Kurt Fritz Robert, Prof. Dr. (Denazification files)  in the German Digital Library