Max Madlener

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Max Madlener (born November 13, 1898 in Kempten (Allgäu) , † August 28, 1989 in West Berlin ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

Madlener joined the Bavarian Army as a volunteer during the First World War in 1916 . Dismissed as a lieutenant from the 4th field artillery regiment "König" in 1918 , he joined the Swabian Freikorps in 1919 .

In the same year he began studying medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , and before that he graduated from the Kempten Humanistic Gymnasium . There he heard, among others, the anatomist Siegfried Mollier , the internists Friedrich von Müller and Emil Kraepelin , the pathologist Max Borst and his later boss Ferdinand Sauerbruch . During his studies he became a member of the Student Singers Association (SSV) Gotia Munich in the special houses association . After the state examination (1923) Madlener was licensed as a doctor in 1924 and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . In those years he was an intern and volunteer with Ernst von Romberg in Munich and at the Kempten District Hospital .

Rhineland

In 1925 he went to Cologne . At Paul Frangenheim he was a volunteer assistant at the surgical university clinic, the Bürgerhospital in Cologne . In 1926/27 he worked for Paul Huebschmann in the pathology department of the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . From 1927 to 1930 he returned to Frangenheim in Cologne, where he was assistant (1931) and senior physician (1938) to Emil Karl Frey in Düsseldorf . In 1934, during the Nazi era , he took part in the first Zossen teaching camp . The National Socialist Lecturer Academy Kitzeberg (near Kiel ) qualified him in the same year. The Medical Academy appointed him associate professor in 1940 and provisional professor in 1944 . As chief physician , he headed the surgical clinic of the Düsseldorf City Hospital, which was founded in 1907 in connection with the Medical Academy.

Wehrmacht

Immediately after the attack on Poland began on September 8, 1939, Madlener was drafted into the Wehrmacht . In 1939/40 he served in the Bottrop reserve hospital . Subsequently taken over into the army , he was an assistant doctor to his boss Frey, who served as an advisory surgeon . Since 1941 he has been a consultant surgeon in an army . Madlener took part as a chief medical officer in the campaign in the west and in the war in the Caucasus . In 1942 he was appointed SS-Obersturmführer .

Berlin

After the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , Madlener was removed from office in Düsseldorf by the British military government because of his SS membership and placed in automatic arrest . After that he briefly ran a country practice .

On the initiative of well-known Sauerbruch students , Madlener went to the Charité in 1946 to help the sick Sauerbruch. In 1948 he became the first senior physician and Sauerbruch's representative. When Sauerbruch resigned at the dean's insistence , Madlener was appointed as acting successor and director in December 1949 . He declined an appointment as Sauerbruch's successor at the Charité. After Willi Felix was appointed to the chair in 1949 , Madlener went on May 1, 1950 as chief physician to the Am Urban hospital , where he cared for Sauerbruch until his death. He planned the new building of the house with Peter Poelzig . In 1964 he retired . In his last years, Madlener was suffering from dementia in Urban Hospital, where he died like Sauerbruch.

family

Madlener was the son of the Kempten architect Ambros Madlener and nephew of the surgeon and mountaineer of the same name Max Madlener the Elder. Ä. (1868-1951). The Catholic Madlener d. J. married Hildegard geb. Pape . The couple had two children.

Works

  • The puerperal deaths at the Munich Women's Clinic in 1887/91. Casuistic-statistical contributions. Munich 1892. GoogleBooks
  • The operations in 1910 and 1911 in the district hospital in Kempten . 1912. GoogleBooks

Honors

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literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Lienert: One of the oldest schools in Bavaria: The Carl-von-Linde-Gymnasium celebrates its 200th anniversary on October 2nd. In: all-in.de, August 30, 2004 (accessed January 10, 2016)
  2. ↑ a b c W. Hüsten: Prof. Dr. Max Madlener on his 70th birthday. Medical World 25 (1968). P. 2515 f.
  3. ^ Association of Alter SVer: Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 82.
  4. ^ Nicola Wenge: Cologne clinics during the Nazi era. On the fatal dynamics in the local health system 1933–1945 (PDF; 1.1 MB).
  5. ↑ a b Exodus of Sciences from Berlin (1994)
  6. ↑ Düsseldorf Municipal Hospital (PDF; 296 kB).
  7. ↑ KP Behrendt: War surgery 1939–1945 (PDF; 2.3 MB).
  8. ↑ Sigrid Oehler-Klein, Volker Roelcke : Politics of the Past in University Medicine after 1945 - Institutional and Individual Strategies in Dealing with National Socialism ( GoogleBooks )
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Woelk: After the dictatorship - the Medical Academy Düsseldorf from the end of the Second World War to the 1960s (2003). GoogleBooks
  10. ↑ a b c d Communication from Helmut Wolff (November 2012).
  11. ↑ Hans Rudolf Berndorff : A life for surgery. Obituary for Ferdinand Sauerbruch. In: Ferdinand Sauerbruch: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; used: license edition Bertelsmann, Munich 1956, pp. 456–478, here: p. 459.
  12. ↑ luise-berlin.de
  13. ↑ Helga Hoffmann: Droben im Allgäu, where bread has an end: on the cultural history of a region (2000). GoogleBooks
personal data
SURNAME Madlener, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten (Allgäu)
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1989
Place of death West Berlin