Martin Herrmann (dentist)

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Martin Herrmann (born February 8, 1895 in Penzig, Görlitz / Silesia, (today Pieńsk ); † March 16, 1976 in Dettighofen ) was a German dentist and from 1948 to 1963 professor of dentistry at the Medical Faculty of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz . In 1955 he and colleagues founded an interdisciplinary caries research institute there .

life and work

Martin Herrmann, son of a main teacher and cantor in Penzig, was matriculated at the University of Tübingen after graduating from high school in Görlitz in 1914 , but then reported to the front as a volunteer. He did military service as a reserve lieutenant from August 15, 1914 to December 1, 1918, returned as a company commander and battalion adjutant wounded several times during the First World War , and then studied dentistry at the University of Breslau (with Carl Partsch ) until March 31, 1921 . He passed his medical state examination (in dentistry) on May 13, 1921 and received his license to practice medicine . On August 10, 1921, he was awarded a Dr. med. dent. PhD . From 1928 to 1931 he studied medicine at the University of Breslau and passed his medical state examination in medicine on March 20, 1931. On December 21, 1931 he received his doctorate from the University of Rostock with "Investigations on the calcium level in blood serum after cold seaside baths". med. During his activity from November 1, 1931 to January 1, 1934 as a senior physician at the University of Breslau with Hermann Euler , he is, according to Euler, through some valuable work, e.g. B. one "about the then newly emerged Corbasil and one about the lead border " became known.

From 1935 Herrmann was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten and the SA , where he was transferred from the Stahlhelm to the SA Reserve. Between August 1937 and 1945 he was a member of the NSDAP . From 1939 to January 1945 he was a medical officer in the Breslau 4 reserve hospital and headed a department for jaw and facial injuries as a war service. There he worked with his later Mainz colleagues Josef Kluczka (1897–1966) and Fritz Jung . From February 1945 he headed the specialist hospital for maxillofacial surgery in Mindelheim , then from November 1, 1945 to October 30, 1948, he was chief physician in the hospital for the disabled.

With his habilitation thesis "The jaw clamp , its origin and treatment taking into account a new orthopedic treatment method" he received his habilitation in 1944. On April 1, 1948, he became a full professor and took over the management of the Clinic for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine at the University of Mainz, which, after his retirement on March 31, 1963, he continued on a provisional basis until March 31, 1964. From 1960 to 1961 he was dean of the medical faculty .

The Mainz Caries Research Institute

With the help of the German Party , Herrmann endeavored from 1954 to revive the Institute for Caries Research at the University of Mainz, which had previously been headed by Hermann Schröder and then by Hermann Euler . In response to a request in the Bundestag, the Federal Minister of the Interior replied that at the time this facility was the result of an initiative by the dental profession and only received a limited amount of subsidies from the Reich Minister of the Interior. According to the provisions of the Basic Law, the establishment of such an institute is now the responsibility of the federal states. The participation of the federal government could only be limited to the granting of grants. After the "Caries Research Institute at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz" was entered in the register of associations at the Mainz District Court on August 11, 1955, several scientists from Mainz University came on January 18, 1956 (in addition to Herrmann, Hans-Diedrich Cremer ( Mainz nutritional physiology ), Theo Lammers ( hygiene and bacteriology ), as well as Peter Riethe , Josef Kluczka and Fritz Jung from dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine) for the first working conference of the institute, whose board of directors within the meaning of §26 BGB Martin Herrmann and Hans -Diedrich Cremer formed. The dentist and physiologist Albert Keil, a former pupil of Schröder and employee at his caries institute, was elected chairman of the scientific advisory board. In 1948, Keil wanted to set up a laboratory for caries research and dental biology in Gießen, had organized a joint advanced training event for the Hessian Chamber of Physicians and Dentists there in 1949, at which Hertha Hafer also gave a lecture, and was now director of the Dental Institute of the University of Gießen with a teaching license .

Diverse research despite scant resources

The research work of the Mainz institute covered a wide range of topics up to 1969, despite scant financial resources, as Herrmann complained in 1970: “Spending over several million DM annually for the removal of acute tooth damage and research into the causes of caries only a few thousand DM as donations to be requested again and again making it available is grotesque and untenable. "In recent years," financial contributions from the Federal Association of German Dentists and the German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine , from the Ministry of Culture and the Interior of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , from the Landeszentralbank Rhineland-Palatinate, from the Association of Friends of the University of Mainz and above all from the Association of Pension Insurance Institutions, Frankfurt . ”Donations were occasionally received from industry and members. At its general assembly in March 1962, the German Committee for Youth Dental Care (DAJ) elected a commission in recognition of the present emergency with the task of "operating and promoting the expansion of the caries research institute at the University of Mainz." Herrmann goes in his paper Dental caries (1970) does not deal with further developments. The dental reports indicate that in March 1964 the DAJ commission revised a memorandum "which calls for coordination of research and a secure long-term budget" and intends to send it to governments, members of the Bundestag and Landtag, printed on glossy paper with a list of signatures. In the meantime, the Volkswagenwerk Foundation had made 1.8 million DM available for caries research, which, however, was to go in toto to the newly founded Caries Research Institute of the University of Berlin under the direction of Ewald Harndt . Where funds were finally available, it seemed even more impossible to coordinate research. The financial situation for caries research had improved by 1970: “Today, when there are ample funds available for caries research, one all too often no longer thinks about the pressure of material need and the unsatisfactory spatial conditions under which this had to be carried out years ago . "

Publications (selection)

  • 1952: About dental caries. Dent. Ref. 15/16
  • 1953 with HD Cremer: Animal studies on nutrition and dental caries. German Dental Line 8: p.61
  • 1956 with W. Büttner and HD Cremer: Nutritional factors in tooth and bone formation. German Dental Line 11: S. 984
  • 1956 with Fauzi Rozeik: Experimental damage to teeth by X-rays. Dental Ref. 3/4
  • 1957 The scientific basis of caries prophylaxis. Dental Message. 45: p. 309
  • 1958 The change in the hardness of the tooth after the administration of toxic fluorine (results from animal experiments). German Dental Line 13: S. 567
  • 1959 with Fauzi Rozeik: On the toxicity question of fluorine. German Dental Line 14: S. 337
  • 1961 Caries prophylaxis during pregnancy. Dental Message. 51: p. 672
  • 1962 with Fauzi Rozeik: About the endogenous caries prophylaxis through bone ash. German Dental Line 17: S 880
  • 1964 fight against decaying teeth. Dental Message. 54: p. 197
  • 1966 Dental caries prophylaxis with fluorine. Dental Message. 56: p. 597
  • 1966 Dental caries prophylaxis with special attention to fluorine. Dental World / Reform 67: p. 75
  • 1968 pregnancy and dental treatment. Dental Practice 19: p. 19th
  • 1969 Fluorine retention from fluoridated toothpastes. Dental Welt / Reform 70: No. 1, p. 12

Awards and functions

  • Honorary member of the German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine
  • Honorary member of the Stomatological Societies in the USA, Greece and Italy
  • Member of the Scientific Research Council of the Fédération Dentaire Internationale (FDI)
  • Chairman of the Association of University Professors in Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Martin Herrmann †. ZM 66: No. 10 (1976) 515
  2. ↑ Communications and reports. Mainz ZWR 10 (1955) 81
  3. ↑ H. Euler: Memoirs of a teacher of dentistry. Carl Hanser Publishing House. Munich 1949, p. 151
  4. ↑ Martin Herrmann IN Directory of Professors at the University of Mainz Accessed on May 20, 2020
  5. ^ P. Riethe: First working conference of the Caries Research Institute at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. ZM 44 (1956) 8
  6. ^ P. Riethe: First working conference of the Caries Research Institute Mainz. ZM 44 (1956) 117
  7. ↑ University News . To water. DZZ 12 (1957) 104
  8. ↑ University News . To water. DZZ 3 (1948) 870
  9. ↑ University world. To water. ZWR 3 (1948) 220
  10. ↑ Short messages. To water. German Stomatol. 1 (1951) 108
  11. ↑ Short messages. To water. German Stomatol. 3 (1953) 320
  12. ↑ a b Martin Herrmann: Dental caries. Suggestions for combating dental caries. Werk-Verlag Dr. Edmund Banaschewsky, Munich-Graefelfing, 1970.
  13. ↑ Advances in caries research. From the 1963 annual report of the Caries Research Institute at Johannes Gutenberg University. ZM 54: No. 8 (1964) 363
  14. ↑ German Fluorine Commission. ZM 54: No. 5 (1964) 226
  15. ↑ German Fluorine Commission. ZM 54: No. 11 (1964) 538
  16. ↑ Caries research. ZM 54: No. 8 (1964) 347
  17. ↑ KM Hartlmaier: Prof. Dr. Dr. Martin Herrmann 75 years. ZM 60: No. 3 (1970) 137
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dentist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Pieńsk
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1976
Place of death Dettighofen