Max Baur (pharmacologist)

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Max Baur (born February 15, 1893 in Wyhl , † September 26, 1936 in Travemünde ) was a German pharmacologist and university professor . From 1933 to 1936 he was rector of the University of Marburg .

Life

Max Baur was the son of a main teacher. After graduating from high school , he began studying medicine at the universities of Munich and Freiburg in 1912 , which he interrupted after the outbreak of the First World War. He took part in the war from 1914 to 1918 as a war volunteer, most recently as a lieutenant in the reserve. After the end of the war he continued his studies from January 1919 with the subjects medicine and chemistry in Freiburg and Cologne . In December 1920 he finished his studies with the medical state examination and in May 1921 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He then worked as an assistant doctor at the pharmacological institutes of the Universities of Cologne and Kiel, and also at the Cologne Children's Clinic, where he had already completed his medical internship. In 1924 he completed his habilitation in pharmacology and taught at the University of Kiel, initially as a private lecturer , and from 1928 as a non-official associate professor of pharmacology. In 1931 he was appointed full professor of pharmacology at the University of Marburg.

After the "seizure of power" he joined the NSDAP and the SS in 1933 . In May 1933, Baur first became dean of the medical faculty. In November 1933 he was appointed rector of the University of Marburg and held this office until 1936. In 1935 he was given a teaching position in aviation medicine. In 1936 Baur was dismissed from the SS because of "lack of service attitude" and "unsuitability". In September 1936, he crashed during a reserve exercise by the Air Force on the airfield in Travemünde.

literature

  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 19.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . , P. 33.
  • Wolfgang Legrum, Adnan Jawad Al-Toma, Karl J. Netter: 125 Years of the Pharmacological Institute of the Philipps University of Marburg, Human Medicine Department , NG Elwert Verlag, 1992, p. 128f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 19.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Legrum, Adnan Jawad Al-Toma, Karl J. Netter: 125 Years of the Pharmacological Institute of the Philipps University of Marburg, Human Medicine Department , NG Elwert Verlag, 1992, p. 128f.
  3. ^ Anne Christine Nagel : The Philipps University of Marburg in National Socialism: Documents to their history , Stuttgart 2000, p. 519
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 33
personal data
SURNAME Baur, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Wyhl
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1936
Place of death Travemünde