Otto Gauer
Otto Heinrich Gauer (born May 2, 1909 in Heidelberg , † January 22, 1979 in Berlin ) was a German physiologist. He worked at what is now the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim and from 1963 to 1979 he held a chair at the Institute for Physiology at the Free University of Berlin . He is considered the founder of gravitational physiology. The Gauer-Henry reflex was named after him.
Life
Gauer completed a study of medicine , and has been at the University of Heidelberg in 1935 to Dr. med. doctorate and approved in 1936 . After completing his studies, he worked at the Physiological Institute at Heidelberg University. Gauer, who joined the NSDAP in 1937 , became head of department in the Aeromedical Research Institute , a department of the Reich Aviation Ministry under Hermann Göring , in 1938 . He completed his habilitation in 1942 at the Physiological Institute of Heidelberg University with a paper on the accelerating effect on the circulatory system. In 1942 he was a participant in the conference distress in which the results of the human experiments in the Dachau concentration camp were presented. In 1944, together with Horst Wieckert, he published the results of 24 other human experiments in the magazine Luftfahrtmedizin under the title The electrocardiogram of humans under centrifugal force . After the end of the Second World War , Gauer worked at the US Aerospace Medical Center in Heidelberg from 1945 and then with the US secret project Operation Paperclip . He conducted research at the Aerospace Medical Laboratory Wright Field in Ohio since 1947 and taught as a professor at Duke University in Durham (North Carolina) . Gauer was already involved in the first space missions with his early work. In 1946, together with Heinz Haber , he opened the way for Americans to questions of weightlessness and space medicine. In 1950, together with Heinz Haber, he published the first work on the influence of weightlessness on people under the title Man under Gravity-Free Conditions . As a globally recognized circulatory physiologist, he was offered the position of director at the Kerckhoff Institute in Bad Nauheim . After becoming an associate professor at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen in 1956 , he was appointed full professor at the Free University of Berlin in 1962 . From 1955 to 1961 he was "Scientific Member" of the Max Planck Society (MPG), from 1962 until his death he was "External Scientific Member" of the MPG.
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 174.
- Alexander Neumann: Physiology . In: Wolfgang Uwe Eckart , Volker Sellin , Eike Wolgast : The University of Heidelberg under National Socialism. Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-21442-7 , pp. 671ff.
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Gauer in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gauer, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gauer, Otto Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1979 |
| Place of death | Berlin |