Otto Buurman
Otto Taleus Eberhard Buurman (born November 10, 1890 in Kirchborgum , † March 3, 1967 in Göttingen ) was a German philologist, doctor and ministerial official in the health sector.
Career
Buurman first studied modern philology in Halle and Erlangen , then, interrupted by military service in World War I , from 1918 to 1920 medicine in Kiel , Göttingen and Jena . During his studies he was a member of the 1910 Schwarzenburg Bund - connection Tuiskonia Hall and C. St. V. Uttenruthia Erlangen . In 1920 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He then worked as a medical intern and then an assistant doctor at the Diakonie-Anstalt Bremen. In 1922 he established himself as a general practitioner in Pewsum . From October 1929 he was the chief district doctor in the district of Leer . Because of his proximity to the Confessing Church , he was transferred to Liegnitz in 1938 as a medical officer.
During the Second World War he was in German-occupied Poland from 1940 head of the health department in Krakow and from 1941 sub-department head in the health administration of the general government , where he also acted as the deputy president in the health administration. He completed his habilitation at the University of Breslau in 1943. From 1943 he was a medical officer in Hamburg-Harburg .
After the end of the war he was briefly deputy to the president of the health authority in Hamburg. In November 1945 he went to Hanover to set up the health department in the High Presidium of the Province of Hanover . In 1946 he was a member of the German Health Services Advisory Committee and the German Advisory Board in the British Zone of Occupation . In 1947 he founded the Lower Saxony Association for Combating Tuberculosis , of which he was chairman until 1967. In 1948 he was appointed Ministerialrat in the Lower Saxony State Service. In addition, from 1949 to 1951 he headed the Board of Trustees of the Academy for State Medicine Hamburg. From 1949 to 1955 he was chairman of the Lower Saxony State Health Council, was a member of the Federal Health Council from 1953 and head of the health department in the Federal Ministry of the Interior from 1954 to November 1956 . In retirement he took over the post of federal doctor of the German Red Cross between 1958 and 1960 .
Buurman is the author of a twelve-volume high German-Low German dictionary .
Honors
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
- Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern
- Bavarian Order of Military Merit IV. Class with crown and swords
- Braunschweig War Merit Cross, 2nd and 1st class
- Brunswick probation badge
- 1958: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1965: Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit
- Honorary Chairman of the Northwest German Hospital Society
Fonts
- High German-Low German dictionary. Based on the East Frisian dialect. 12 volumes. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1962–1975.
literature
- Heinrich Buurman: Otto Taleus Eberhard BUURMAN. (PDF; 95 kB). In: Martin Tielke (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland. Volume 1, Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1993, pp. 65-68.
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
- Otto Buurman . In: Udo Schagen , Sabine Schleiermacher: 100 years of history of social hygiene, social medicine and public health in Germany. Documentation by the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP) , CD-Rom, Berlin 2005.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition. Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 59, no. 422.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buurman, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buurman, Otto Taleus Eberhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and health politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirchborgum |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1967 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |