Otto Friedrich Ranke

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Otto Friedrich Ranke (born August 17, 1899 in Munich , † November 19, 1959 in Erlangen ) was a German physiologist , military doctor ( senior medical officer ) and university lecturer .

Life

Otto F. Ranke, whose father was the psychiatrist Karl Ranke (1861–1951), completed his studies in medicine at the universities of Munich and Freiburg after completing his school career . In Freiburg in 1923 consisted Ranke the state exam and received his doctorate there a year later at Ludwig Aschoff with the dissertation "On the change of the elastic resistance of the aorta intima and their sequence for the formation of atheroma" Dr. med. Ranke then continued to study at the Technical University of Munich with the help of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation until 1925, and devoted himself to mathematical studies. Ranke then worked as an assistant at the Pathological Institute at the University of Freiburg and under Philipp Broemser (1886-1940) from 1928 to 1935 at the Physiological Institutes of the Universities of Basel and Heidelberg . His habilitation followed in 1931 at the University of Heidelberg with the text "The rectifier resonance theory: an extension of Helmholtz's resonance theory of hearing through physical investigation of fluid vibrations" .

Ranke belonged to the steel helmet and became a member of the SA after the steel helmet was transferred to the Sturmabteilung (SA). He was also a member of the Nazi teachers' association . From 1935 Ranke worked at the aeronautical medical research institute of the Military Medical Academy in Berlin with Hubertus Strughold . Ranke was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Berlin in Berlin in 1936. From 1937 to 1945 he headed the Institute of General and Military Physiology at the Military Medical Academy . Ranke set up the central archives of the Wehrmacht in 1939 and conducted research at the Military Medical Academy on aviation medicine , heat regulation and nutritional physiology . His specialty were performance enhancers. Ranke was also an advisory military physiologist for the Army Medical Inspection. As a senior medical officer , Ranke took part in the conference on medical questions in distress at sea and winter death on August 26 and 27, 1942 in Nuremberg , where a lecture was also given about the attempts at hypothermia in the Dachau concentration camp . From 1944, Ranke was still a member of the scientific advisory board of Karl Brandt , the authorized representative for health care .

After the end of the war, Ranke headed the Physiological Institute at the University of Erlangen from the beginning of May 1946 , but was dismissed by the American military government after three months . From mid-September 1947 until his death Ranke was Professor of Physiology at the University of Erlangen and at the same time director of the Physiological Institute there. His main research interests were sensory and nutritional physiology as well as the physiology of metabolism. In addition, was a gifted mathematician. His assistants and students included the physiologist Wolf-Dieter Keidel and the surgeon and Würzburg university professor Ernst Kern . Ranke was the author of several specialist publications, including in 1950, together with Konrad Lang, a textbook on metabolism and nutrition . Ranke died unexpectedly of an arterial thrombosis in 1959 while sleeping or sitting at a desk. His successor was his senior assistant, the private lecturer Wolf-Dieter Keidel.

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  1. ↑ a b c Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German biographical encyclopedia . 2nd Edition. Volume 8, Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25038-5 , p. 177.
  2. ↑ a b c d Wolf-Dieter Keidel : Otto F. Ranke †. In: Results of Physiology. Volume 51 (1960), pp. 20-37 ( digitized version ; PDF; 462 kB).
  3. ↑ a b c 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 , pp. 479 .
  4. ↑ Karl-Heinz Plattig (configuration): On the History of the institute. , Website of the Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology at FAU.
  5. ↑ Ernst Kern: Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000. ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , pp. (28–) 29, 106, 306 and 312.
  6. ↑ Ernst Kern: Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. 2000, p. 312.
personal data
SURNAME Ranke, Otto Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ranke, Otto F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1959
Place of death gain