Otto Braehmer

Otto Braehmer

Carl Gottfried Otto Braehmer (born February 1, 1838 in Greifswald ; † August 3, 1902 ) was a German medic .

Life

Braehmer studied medicine in Greifswald , Berlin and Rostock , where he was a member of the Corps Guestfalia Greifswald and Vandalia Berlin . He received his doctorate in Greifswald in 1863, passed the state examination in 1864 and became a general practitioner in Wendisch-Buchholz in 1865/66 and a trade doctor in Berlin in 1867. After participating in the campaigns of 1866 and 1870/71 , he settled as a general practitioner in Berlin. In 1887 he received the title of medical councilor , and in 1897 of a secret medical councilor.

In the 1880s Braehmer became chairman of the “Collegial Medical Association of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt”. In 1883 he founded the “Berliner Ärztliche Correspondenzblatt”, which he directed for ten years. As one of the best-known Berlin doctors, he was an important pioneer of the medical professional organization. As a board member of the Medical Association for Berlin and the surrounding area, he tried, among other things, to introduce compulsory insurance for doctors against disability.

From 1868 Braehmer was a railway doctor. In this role, he suggested measures to protect the operating staff, including a scheduled definition of the daily working hours of the driving staff, the creation of hygienically perfect overnight rooms, the provision of warm meals and adequate vacation. In 1896 he published the section "Railway Hygiene" in the "Handbook of Hygiene" by Weyl. He was also concerned with expanding the emergency services in the event of rail accidents. The creation of rest homes for railway workers on the Moltkefels near Schreiberhau and in Melsungen (1904) can be traced back to his initiative, even if he did not see the opening himself.

As early as 1885, Braehmer founded the "Association of Railway and Railway Cashiers Doctors" in Berlin, of which he remained chairman until his death. In 1899 he was made an honorary member there. He encouraged the formation of further railway doctors' associations and in 1889 founded the "Association of German Railway Doctors". Shortly before his death, he was appointed medical examiner at the Royal Railway Directorate in Berlin and medical examiner at the Ministry of Public Works for his services. He died in August 1902 and was buried in the Treptow cemetery.

literature

• Carl Lazar: In memoriam Otto Braehmer . In: Deutsche Corpszeitung 64 (1963), pp. 19-20
• Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, col. 225.