Kurt Steinbach (dentist)

Kurt Steinbach , born in Curt Emil Louis Fritz Steinbach (born October 23, 1890 in Gießen ; † September 25, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a dentist and specialist in ear, nose and throat medicine and oral surgery .

Life

Kurt Steinbach received his license to practice dentistry in mid-1912 and his license to practice medicine at the end of April 1931.

At the beginning of 1931 he joined the NSDAP . As early as the end of March 1934, the Hamburg health authority set up a special clinic for jaw patients on the premises of the hospital in Eppendorf . The West German Kieferklinik in Düsseldorf served as a model , so that the name " North German Kieferklinik " (also called the jaw ward ) arose. Steinbach became head, but before the clinic was officially opened, it was subordinated to the University Dental Clinic. Competence disputes led to upheavals between Steinbach and the director of the university dental clinic Eduard Precht . At the end of October 1935 he was given leave of absence and at the end of March 1936 Steinbach was released. Subsequently Precht took over the overall management of the two clinics and Steinbach went to the port hospital as an oral surgeon . There he tried to set up a jaw clinic against Precht's resistance.

As early as 1935, the Reich Governor Karl Kaufmann and the President of the Health Authority Senator Friedrich Ofterdinger began planning a special clinic for jaw injuries outside the university. It was not until the beginning of July 1939 that the contract for the establishment of the special clinic was given by Kaufmann in the area of ​​responsibility of the municipal administration and Steinbach was appointed head. The buildings of the former Jewish hospital in Eckernförde Strasse were used for this and the clinic was named " Northwest German Kieferklinik ". With the mobilization , a short time later, Kaufmann received the order, with the approval of Ofterdinger, to transfer all furnishings and staff to the Nordwestdeutsche Kieferklinik at the University Jaw Clinic . Through further intervention by Kaufmann, the jaw clinic was declared a special hospital, so that construction could continue. Under Steinbach, the increase was made to 286 beds including a toddler and infant department. The jaw clinic including the attached reserve hospital then had twelve attending doctors.

After Precht's death in 1938, a dispute broke out over the occupation of the vacant chair. Kaufmann defended the jaw clinic as a sufficient training facility for students. In 1941, the Reich Ministry stated that the establishment of the Northwest German Kieferklinik made it more difficult to fill the position in terms of personnel, but that Steinbach was not considered scientifically adequately qualified to take over the chair.

In summary, Steinbach was then Medical Director of the Northwest German Maxillofacial Clinic from 1939 to 1945 (today Head and Neurocenter at the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf) and in personal union as a specialist in reconstructive surgery until 1946 chief physician of Reserve Hospital VIII. In 1943, it was moved to a Lüneburg hospital as a jaw department . Steinbach had been a specialist in dental, oral and jaw diseases since mid-1940, which enabled him to teach at the university clinic again with the support of Kaufmann. He was also a senior staff doctor.

His dismissal followed the strict denazification under Rudolf Degkwitz . Karl Schuchardt took over the jaw clinic in mid-1945, first as chief physician, then as medical director.

Steinbach then got involved at the school for language patients and successfully pushed for the establishment of a language department at the jaw clinic.

In 1950 he was denazified (group V, unencumbered).

Works (selection)

• In: Zeitschrift für Stomatologie , Volume 39, Urban & Schwarzenberg , 1941: ua
  • The trigeminal neuralgia and its intraoral surgical treatment of the second and third branch . P. 425 ff.
  • General treatment methods for upper and lower jaw fractures in the Northwest German jaw clinics . P. 441 ff.
  • Functional and cosmetic results in lip and cheek sculptures . P. 449 ff.
• One year at the Northwest German Kieferklinik in Hamburg: Contributions to maxillofacial surgery . Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1941.

literature

• Silke Katharine Riemer: Karl Schuchardt - life and work . Dissertation , University of Hamburg, 2001.
  • North German jaw clinic 1934: p. 100.
  • Disputes with Precht and dismissal in 1936: p. 102.
  • Northwest German Kieferklinik 1939: pp. 104 + 105.
  • Statement by the Reich Ministry on Steinbach 1941: p. 107.
  • Post-war period: pp. 108 + 109 + 179.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Van den Bussche H., ea: Medical Science in the "Third Reich": Continuity, Adaptation and Opposition at the Hamburg Medical Faculty - Volume 5 of Hamburg Contributions to the History of Science , Verlag Reimer, Dietrich, 1989, p. 89, ISBN 3496004770 , here online
2. ^ Hendrik van den Bussche: Medical Science in the Third Reich: Continuity, Adaptation and Opposition at the Hamburg Medical Faculty . Reimer, 1989, ISBN 978-3-496-00477-6 , pp. 98 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).
3. ^ ^{A b c} Hendrik van den Bussche: Medical science in the Third Reich: Continuity, adaptation and opposition at the Hamburg medical faculty . Reimer, 1989, ISBN 978-3-496-00477-6 , pp. 99 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).
4. ^ Hendrik van den Bussche: Medical Science in the Third Reich: Continuity, Adaptation and Opposition at the Hamburg Medical Faculty . Reimer, 1989, ISBN 978-3-496-00477-6 , pp. 101 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).
5. ↑ Dental, Oral and Kieferheilkunde with Zentralblatt, Volume 70 , Verlag Barth, 1982, p. 6, here online
6. ^ Hendrik van den Bussche: Medical Science in the Third Reich: Continuity, Adaptation and Opposition at the Hamburg Medical Faculty . Reimer, 1989, ISBN 978-3-496-00477-6 , pp. 103 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).
7. ↑ Dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine with Zentralblatt . Barth., 1982, p. x ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).