Nathanael Wollenweber

Nathanael Wollenweber (born March 16, 1875 in Freudenberg ; † May 30, 1951 in Dortmund ) was a German doctor, coroner and medical officer. Together with Eduard Schütt, he founded the commentary collection The Public Health Doctor , now better known as The Green Brain because of the green cover .

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Wollenweber was born the son of a pastor. After attending high school, he did his military service as a one-year volunteer in 1895 . Between 1895 and 1900 he studied medicine at the universities of Berlin , Marburg and Bonn . He belonged to the Academic Turnerschaft (Arminia) and was at a saber - Scale seriously injured in the forearm. After the state examination and doctorate in Bonn, Wollenweber worked as a general practitioner and head of the Freudenberg Hospital until 1905 . He passed the district medical exam and in 1905 first became a city assistant doctor in Düsseldorf . In 1906 he moved to Bochum as a district assistant doctor . Here he was particularly noticeable in the fight against a stiff neck - epidemic a name. In 1909 he became a district doctor for the Dortmund district and at the same time a court doctor for the city district. During his service until 1935 he is said to have carried out around 2,300 autopsies . At the same time he became the Knappschaft's medical officer and, after 1919, various other insurance companies. During the First World War , Wollenweber was a hospital doctor.

The first Prussian district health office was founded in the Dortmund district in 1919 under Wollenweber's leadership. From 1923 to 1935 he was a member of the board of the Prussian Medical Officials Association . Politically he was initially close to the DVP and the center during the Weimar Republic . On November 15, 1932, however, he joined the NSDAP . He himself believed that he had played a considerable part in the National Socialist law to standardize the health system . Nevertheless, at the instigation of Leonardo Conti , he was transferred to Lünen as medical officer and head of the health department .

In March 1945, Wollenweber was arrested at the instigation of the district leader of the NSDAP, whom he allegedly wanted to murder. However, he managed to escape. In June 1946 he retired. His son-in-law Ludwig Federhen later released the Green Brain .

Publications

• Casuistic contribution to the transmission of stiff neck. In: Zeitschr. f. Medical al. 1906, p. 519ff.
• The rigid neck examinations of the bacteriological examination center of the Königl. Government in Düsseldorf from October 1, 1905 to July 1, 1906 . In: Klinisches Jahrbuch 17 (1907), H. 1.
• Nathanael Wollenweber: The therapy of prolapsus uteri in childbirth with report of a birth complicated by prolapsus uteri et vaginae incompletus, twins, prolapsus placentae and atonia uteri. Bach, Bonn 1900.
• Nathanael Wollenweber: Deficiencies in housing in the Westphalian industrial district and their significance for the spread of infectious diseases. Lecture at the medical officials' meeting in Hagen on May 18, 1912. Schoetz, Berlin 1913.
• Gustav Bundt and Nathanael Wollenweber (eds.): Directory of the medical authorities of the German Reich and the federal states, the medical civil servants' associations, the seniority lists, the members of the medical civil servant associations, the members of the association of local school and welfare doctors and the Reich Association of Austrian : Medical officers. Fischer's med. Buchh, Berlin 1929.
• Nathanael Wollenweber: The civil servant doctor. Heymann, Berlin 1930.
• Eduard Schütt u. Nathanael Wollenweber (ed.): The doctor of the public health service . The green brain. DNB  014520400 .
• Nathanael Wollenweber: The doctor of the public health service. 1950. Thieme, Stuttgart 1950.

literature

• Alfons Labisch u. Florian Tennstedt: The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health Care System" of July 3, 1934. Lines of development and development moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany . (= Series of publications by the Academy for Public Health , 13, 1.2) Düsseldorf 1985, xxxi, 601 pages in 2 volumes, ISSN  0172-2131
• Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 .