Max Funfack

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Max Funfack (1949)

Max Funfack (born May 13, 1895 in Dresden ; † November 27, 1972 ibid) was a German urologist in Dresden.

Life

As the son of an authorized signatory at Dresdner Bank , Funfack attended the König-Georg-Gymnasium in Dresden. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the University of Jena from 1914 . On the recommendation of his great-uncle Emil Munz, he joined the Corps Guestphalia Jena . From November 1915 he served in Bautzen as a surgical assistant and one-year volunteer in the 3rd Royal Saxon Hussar Regiment No. 20 , with which he moved to the Western Front . As a medical student he was later transferred to the medical service and assigned to the 153 field hospital . In 1917 he received the Iron Cross 2nd class. As a result of war gas poisoning , he was an assistant in the internal department of Reserve Hospital I (Dresden) until the end of 1918.

After he resumed his studies in Jena in 1919 and passed the state examination in the spring of 1920, he was a volunteer assistant in the external (dermatological) department of the Dresden-Friedrichstadt City Hospital from April 1920 . With a venerological doctoral thesis with his boss Johannes Werther , he received his doctorate in Jena in 1920 to become Dr. med. At the beginning of 1921 he was appointed assistant physician in the Dresden clinic and in April of the same year he was appointed senior physician and was entrusted with the management of the urological department. After half a year he resigned; because with his corps brother Fritz Böhme he was able to join the urological doctor's practice and private clinic that Felix Martin Oberländer had founded in Dresden. After Boehme's death in 1932, Funfack took over sole management. He became a member of the Society for Nature and Medicine.

In the Second World War was Funfack Chief Medical Officer in the hospital location Dresden, most recently as Chief Medical reserve . He supported the Corps Misnia IV , which was made up of medical students from the Leipzig student companies , and was in charge of its courses as a drum doctor . He later became the old man of this corps and the Corps Lusatia Leipzig . During the air raid on Dresden on February 13, 1945, his apartment and practice at Christianstrasse 28 were destroyed. Funfack had a document ("Tagesbefehl 47") with ten times the number of victims of the air raids, which his friend Walter Hahn copied without his knowledge and left in 1964 to the British publicist and later Holocaust denier David Irving . When Irving Funfack named in his historical revisionist book “The Downfall of Dresden” and in the press as the primary source of the number of victims of the air raids on Dresden, he wrote to Irving in 1965 that he had only received verbal, strongly differing figures from third parties no on-site doctor and not involved in the recovery of the victims. However, this did not prevent Irving from continuing to rely on Funfack in a misleading manner.

In the destroyed Dresden, Funfack set up a new urological practice at Loschwitzer Strasse 31, which he ran until October 1968. He worked closely with the Urological Clinic of the Medical Academy Carl Gustav Carus Dresden .

In the summer of 1920 (four days after graduation ) he had married Asta Linke . She gave birth to two children: Hans-Joachim Funfack and Irmgard married. Miner .

Medical technology

Even as a student, Funfack had shown a particular love and talent for medical technology . During his medical work he developed urological instruments and transurethral surgical methods . He improved the endoscope of Maximilian Nitze and created the first medical training film to transition from the blind to the optical lithotripsy . The educational film was awarded and translated into five languages. Funfack wrote 33 publications on problems in urology and its border areas.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Schubert: Max Funfack (1895–1972) - scientifically oriented practitioner in Dresden , in: The history of urology in Dresden , p. 136 f.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 75/489.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Influence of treatment on pathological CSF findings in syphilis
  4. ↑ Society for Nature and Medicine Dresden  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archiv.sachsen.de  
  5. ^ A b Egbert Weiß : Leipziger Mensuren in WWII . Once and Now 20 (1975), pp. 60, 65
  6. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 100/76; 87/1101
  7. ↑ Dirk Schultheiss, Friedrich H. Moll: The history of urology in Dresden. 2009, p. 138
  8. ↑ Richard J. Evans : The Forger of History - Holocaust and Historical Truth in the David Irving Trial. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2001, ISBN 3-593-36770-X , p. 201; English edition p. 155 . Funfack's rectification contributed to the successful defense of Deborah Lipstadt against Irving's libel lawsuit in London in 2000 . Irving wanted to prevent her from being portrayed as a Holocaust denier in Lipstadt's book Denying the Holocaust . Process documentation hdot.org .
  9. ↑ by H.-J. Funfack wrote his father's résumé in the Corps Lusatia archive
  10. ↑ Supplement to the university film (WorldCat)
  11. ^ Journal of Urology and Nephrology

Remarks

  1. ↑ Munz was chairman of the oKC in 1861. He later became an honorary member of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig. KCL 1930, 93/451.
  2. ^ Fritz Böhme was a member of the Corps Guestphalia Jena and Lusatia Leipzig. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 70/317; 3/694.
  3. ↑ The article by Ernst Kirsch was reprinted in the Deutsche Corps-Zeitung, Vol. 74, Issue 5/1973, pp. 276–277, without naming the author who lived in the GDR.
personal data
SURNAME Funfack, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Funfack, Paul Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German urologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1972
Place of death Dresden