Oskar Roeder

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Gustav Oskar Wilhelm Röder (also Oscar ; born June 15, 1862 in Johanngeorgenstadt , † February 13, 1954 in Leipzig ) was a German veterinarian .

Life

After studying at the Dresden Veterinary School, where in the winter semester of 1881 he became a member of the Landsmannschaft Saxonia Dresden, the later RSC - Corps Saxonia Dresden (ultimately merged into Landsmannschaft Hansea auf dem Wels ), and the Tierärztliche Hochschule Berlin , where he became a member of the RSC- Landsmannschaft Salingia Berlin, which later became the RSC Corps (ultimately merged into the Corps Rheno-Nicaria Mannheim ), Röder practiced as a vet in Dahlen (Saxony) from 1886 . In 1888 he was appointed to the district veterinarian in Großenhain .

In 1892 Röder did not accept the offer as head of the outpatient clinic at the Dresden University of Veterinary Medicine, which emerged from the veterinary school in 1889 . Two years later at the University of Tuebingen his promotion to Dr. med. vet. with the topic Comparative anatomical and physiological studies on the male mating organ of the felids with special consideration of the nerve endings . In 1894 he was accepted into the Dresden Freemason lodge Zum golden Apfel . In 1895 he was appointed district veterinarian in the then largest district of Meissen.

From 1898 Röder taught practical veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine Dresden and received the chair of veterinary surgery a year later with the title of professor. He invented the Röder knot and described it in 1913 in his work Surgical Technique for Veterinarians and Students . With the dissolution of the university and its relocation and affiliation as a veterinary medicine faculty to the University of Leipzig, Röder, who had held the title of Medical Council since 1904 and had been promoted to the Secret Medical Council in 1915 , moved his place of work to Leipzig in 1923, where he remained until September 13th 1930 headed the Surgical University Veterinary Clinic. After his successor Ewald Berge was drafted into the Wehrmacht due to the war, Röder took over the office on September 27, 1939, again provisionally until Berg returned on September 18, 1940.

After the end of the Second World War, Röder was again appointed to the chair for practical veterinary medicine at the University of Leipzig in 1946. As a full professor of veterinary surgery, he again headed the university clinic. The medical, outpatient and obstetric veterinary clinic and thus all clinically active institutes of the veterinary medicine faculty were also subordinate to him. In spite of his old age, he exercised his office under difficult conditions: Due to the destruction caused by the war, operations were also held outdoors in freezing temperatures in winter. Oskar Röder did not finally retire until 1950.

The University of Leipzig donated the Oskar Röder honorary plaque in his honor . In his long-term place of activity, Dresden, the street on which the racecourse is located in the Reick district bears his name.

literature

  • Holger Linke: Oskar Röder - Life and Work. 1998 (Dissertation, University of Leipzig, 1998).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 3940