Ludwig Wolters

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Karl Ludwig Wolters (born May 25, 1892 in Wolfenbüttel ; † July 19, 1974 ) was a German veterinarian and bacteriologist .

Life

Born as the son of master baker Karl Wolters, Ludwig Wolters began studying at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover in the winter semester of 1911/12 and became a member of the Corps Normannia Hanover . In the summer semester of 1913 he moved to the Berlin Veterinary University and joined the Corps Franconia Berlin. He participated in the First World War as a field aid veterinarian and was awarded the Iron Cross and the Braunschweig Cross of Merit. In July 1919 he received his veterinary license in Berlin . In 1921 he was at the Veterinary College in Berlin with summa cum laude for Dr. med. vet. PhD.

He then went to the Bacteriological Institute of the Anhalt Districts in Dessau, founded by Friedrich Richter in 1921, and became its director in 1924. Under his leadership, the institute developed into a center for health protection. In May 1930, together with Herbert Hoffmann, he founded the Anhaltische Serum-Institut GmbH Dessau (ASID) for the production of serums and vaccines against animal diseases. At the Second World War he took from 1939 to 1941 as a staff veterinarian in the army high command 4 in part and was awarded the Military Cross awarded II. And First Class.

After the war ended, he worked as a veterinarian in Itzehoe from 1945 . In 1949 he became managing director of the ASID Serum Institute GmbH Neuherberg near Munich, which was founded in Germany. One focus of his scientific work was the field of tetanus prophylaxis. In the Berlin and Munich veterinary weekly, Wolters' life's work was honored in an obituary on the occasion of his 70th birthday and after his death.

In the proceedings against the hygienist Joachim Mrugowsky, who had been sentenced to death and executed at the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial , in 1947 Wolters submitted an affidavit regarding the typhoid vaccine program and the possible contacts between Mrugowsky and Erwin Ding-Schuler and Eugen Gildemeister , who had both committed suicide in 1945.

Fonts

  • New methods of indole detection: Contributions to the question of the indole formation of various types of bacteria (coli, typhoid-paratyphoid, enteritis, dysentery, hemorrhagic septicemia, Vibrionen, Proteus) , 1921
  • with H. Dehmel: About the course of active and active-passive immunity in tetanus . In: Journal of Infectious Diseases, Parasitic Diseases and Domestic Hygiene , Volume 53, 1938, pp. 140-147
  • with H. Dehmel: Experimental attempts for active immunization of alum precipitate mixed vaccines . In: Deutsche Tierärztliche Wochenschrift , Issue 46, 1938, pp. 342-345
  • with H. Dehmel: About active immunization against tetanus and its importance for practice . In: Berliner Tierärztliche Wochenschrift , 54th year, 1938, pp. 61–63
  • with H. Dehmel: The tetanus prophylaxis through active immunization . In: Journal for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases , Volume 122, Issue 5, July 8, 1940, pp. 603-612
  • with H. Dehmel: Final study on tetanus prophylaxis through active immunization . In: Journal for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases , Volume 124, Issue 3–4, November 9, 1942, pp. 326–332
  • with E. Fischoeder, H. Weidenmüller: Typhus-Paratyphus-Adsorbat-Vaccine, their production and testing for antigenic properties . In: Journal for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases , Volume 130, Issue 6, March 22, 1950, pp. 693-702
  • with E. Fischoeder: Active tetanus vaccination and tetanus immunity . In: Ärztliche Wochenschrift , Volume 8, Issue 23, June 5, 1953, pp. 537-540
  • with E. Fischoeder: About the binding of tetanus toxin to brain matter without and after pretreatment with tetanus toxoid . In: Journal for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases , Volume 139, Issue 6, June 18, 1954, pp. 541-544

literature

  • Fritz Riggert, Otto Gervesmann: History of the Corps Normannia Hannover, 1859, March 15, 1959, 1959, p. 146.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Document Mrugowsky 12, Exhibit 25, Affidavit von Wolters. ( Digitized version ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
personal data
SURNAME Wolters, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolters, Karl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian and bacteriologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1974