Max Meyer (doctor)

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Max Meyer as a Strasbourg Swabian (1910)

Max Meyer (born February 8, 1890 in Berlin , † November 6, 1954 in Würzburg ) was a German ear, nose and throat doctor and university professor in Tehran and Würzburg.

Life

As the son of the respected ear specialist Edmund Meyer and his wife, who died in 1916 through suicide, Meyer studied medicine at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg and, in the meantime, at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He took all of his exams in Strasbourg. He also received his doctorate. From August 9, 1914 to January 8, 1919, he worked as an assistant doctor and senior physician. R. at the First World War in part, including three years as a battalion doctor of a rifle battalion , most recently as leader of a medical company. He was wounded twice. Meyer began his ENT training in the Berlin hospital Charlottenburg-Westend. On February 1, 1920, he joined Paul Manasse as a young assistant , with whom he had already worked in Strasbourg. The lecture hall of the new Würzburg clinic was opened on February 14, 1923 with Meyer's inaugural lecture as a qualified private lecturer . In Würzburg he became associate professor on March 4, 1927 .

Since the National Socialists revoked his teaching license as a Jew on December 31, 1935 , he left Germany and worked from October 1, 1935 to September 30, 1940 as director of the ENT clinic at the State Model Hospital in Ankara . The Jewish pediatrician Albert Eckstein had also found refuge there. On July 1, 1941 Meyer was appointed to the ENT chair at the University of Tehran , where he remained until September 30, 1947. When he returned to Germany, he was offered four chairs. He decided on Würzburg, which was in ruins, where he had been trained and had had happy years of marriage. From October 18, 1947, he was a full professor of nose, throat and throat medicine, and on October 20, 1947, he took up his post as director of the clinic and polyclinic for ear, nose and throat patients in Josef-Schneider-Straße 2 (Building 13). The focus of the medical faculty was the Luitpold Hospital, in which Meyer rebuilt the ENT clinic as director. Hans-Heinz Naumann was one of his scientific assistants . He became dean as early as 1948 . 1951/52 and 1952/53 he was rector , since then vice rector of the university. After a rather harmless injury from a traffic accident, Meyer died of a thrombosis with kidney failure in the Würzburg clinic.

With one of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg aligned state funeral the university, the student body, the state of Bavaria, the city of Wuerzburg, colleagues, scientists and his two Corps in the lobby of the University honored him. It spoke u. a. State Councilor Hans Meinzolt for the Bavarian State Ministry, the Rector and the Dean of the Medical Faculty, the Lord Mayor, the representatives of the General Student Committee and the University Association as well as the senior management of Meyer's two corps (A. Krause and G. Schmitt). Thousands of people flanked the funeral procession to the cemetery when the bells of the Würzburg churches ringed . In Meyer's honor, the Würzburg student body organized a funeral in the Huttensaal on November 18, 1954 .

Corps student

On the recommendation of Rudolf von Bennigsen , honorary member of Suevia Strasbourg, Meyer joined the Corps Suevia Strasbourg in 1910 in Strasbourg . In his Würzburg years he frequented the befriended Corps Bavaria Würzburg . Returning from exile , he immediately and vehemently got involved in Marburg for the reconstitution of his Suevia, which then resumed active operations in Marburg.

As one of the first post-war rectors, he opposed the defamation of student corporations out of deep conviction . In the rectors 'conferences, which had taken a position against the liaison system with the Tübingen resolution in 1949 , he stood not only in front of the weapons students' tables, but also in front of the ideological and religious connections. At the invitation of the then Federal Minister of the Interior Robert Lehr , the rectors and association representatives met on November 12, 1952 in Düsseldorf. Meyer sat with the associations, not the rectors. As early as 1949 he was a member of the Würzburg Senate Committee for Corporations.

On September 15, 1951, leading representatives of the Association of Old Corps Students in Meyer's apartment agreed to hold the Kösener Congresses in Würzburg. Meyer's good relationship with the city administration also made it possible for the participants to be accommodated in the destroyed city. He turned down the offer to hold the keynote address at the Kösener Congress in 1953 because he wanted to work in the background: “I see my task in creating a situation in which the corporations can work in daily detail work and in daily cooperation with the students breathe freely again and develop your own characteristics as unhindered as possible. I also hope to be able to contribute something to showing the corporations ways in which they, without prejudice to their tradition, can participate more directly in the tasks of the university than before. ” On May 10, 1954, he gave the speech at the joint Kommers of all Würzburg corporations. For the first time in its history, the Corps Bavaria Würzburg Meyer awarded the ribbon (unanimously) on May 29, 1954.

"His example of an unprejudiced tolerance, a respectful respect for those who think differently, without denying loyalty to one's own manner and convictions, will remain an everlasting obligation for the Corpsbrothers."

- Corps Bavaria Würzburg, 140th Foundation Festival, 1955

Meyer “prevented the Metternichian spirit from entering the universities in the first decade of our young Federal Republic of Germany. In this way he has rendered an important service to the peace among the student body and to the social peace of our state. ”After Max Meyer, a prize awarded for the first time in 2013 and donated by corps students for the promotion of young researchers was named, the Rector Max Meyer Prize .

Honors

See also

literature

  • A. Krause: Max Meyer . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 3 (1958), pp. 150–153.
  • Faruk Sen, Dirk Halm: Exile under the crescent moon and the star - Herbert Scurla's report on the activities of German university lecturers in Turkey during the National Socialist era . 2007 ISBN 3898617688

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, pp. 11 and 20.
  2. ↑ Meyer: Matriculation speech WS 1951/52 of November 29, 1951
  3. ↑ Meyer: The hearing loss as a human and medical problem . Rector's speech on May 10, 1952
  4. ^ Meyer: Annual report of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg from May 10, 1952
  5. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 103/154
  6. ^ Obituary, Straßburger Schwabenblatt, No. 154, April 1955
  7. ↑ Ballas (Saxonia Kiel), Bruns (Suevia Strasbourg), HR Koch (Hassia, Rhenania Bonn) and later Meyer's friend Ranz (Normannia Berlin, Saxonia Kiel, Frankonia Prague)
  8. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 138/887
  9. ↑ Krause, p. 153
  10. ↑ Editorial South: WÜRZBURG. Rector Max Meyer Prize for young researchers. In: mainpost.de of December 10, 2013
  11. ↑ Rector Max Meyer Prize 2013 (YouTube)
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ENT doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1954
Place of death Wurzburg