Oskar Gagel

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Oskar Gagel (born July 4, 1899 in Nuremberg ; † September 15, 1978 there ) was a German neurologist and university professor .

Life

Gagel completed a medical degree at the Universities of Erlangen and Munich and was awarded a doctorate in Erlangen in 1925. med. PhD . He worked as an assistant at the German Research Institute for Psychiatry in Munich under Walther Spielmeyer , then at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research with Hugo Spatz and finally with Ludwig Robert Müller at the University of Erlangen . In 1929 he worked as a pupil of Otfrid Foerster at the neurological department of the city hospital and from the mid-1930s as a department head at the neurological research institute in Breslau. He completed his habilitation in internal medicine in 1931. He then taught at the University of Breslau as a private lecturer and from 1937 as an associate professor. He had been married to Eva, née Burckhardt, since 1937. The couple had two children.

At the beginning of February 1940, Gagel became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 7.480.206). In March 1940, Gagel moved to the University of Vienna , where he became director of the neurological institute and later also headed the neurological department of the local polyclinic. In 1942 he was appointed full professor of neurology at the University of Vienna. In Vienna he also prepared expert opinions for the hereditary health court and campaigned with Otto Pötzl in 1944/45 for a professorship by Hans Bertha .

After the end of the war, Gagel was given leave of absence in Vienna on May 18, 1945 and suspended from university in August 1945. He then returned to Nuremberg. He later practiced in his hometown as a specialist in internal and nervous diseases. He officially retired in Erlangen in 1958 .

Gagel did research in particular on the histology and pathology of the autonomic nervous system and was the author of various specialist publications.

Fonts (selection)

  • Contribution to the anatomy of the vegetative centers in the cervical marrow , Erlangen, Med. Diss., 1925
  • The vegetative parts of the spinal cord , J. Springer, Berlin 1932 (also Breslau, Med. Hab.-Schr.)
  • Muscles and peripheral nerves , J. Springer, Berlin 1935 (Handbook of Neurology: [B.] Special Neurology; 1 = Vol. 9 - editor)
  • Introduction to Neurology [electronic resource]: Structure and performance of the nervous system under normal and pathological conditions , Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1949

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gernot Schnaberth: The Neurology in Vienna from 1870 to 2010 , Vienna 2010, p. 60
  2. ↑ a b Karl Heinz Tragl: Chronicle of the Vienna hospitals. Böhlau, 2007, ISBN 3-205-77595-3 , p. 319
  3. ↑ Who is who? , Volume 17, 1971, p. 290
  4. ^ A b Roman Pfefferle, Hans Pfefferle: Glimpflich denazisiert. The professorships at the University of Vienna from 1944 in the post-war years , Göttingen 2014, p. 321.
  5. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 172f.
  6. ^ Claudia Andrea Spring: Between War and Euthanasia: Forced Sterilization in Vienna 1940–1945 . Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78321-3 . P. 134
personal data
SURNAME Gagel, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1978
Place of death Nuremberg