Otto Huntemüller

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Otto Werner Gustav Huntemüller (born December 13, 1878 in Hoya ; † February 13, 1931 in Davos ) was a German doctor, hygienist (student of Robert Koch ), sports medicine specialist and university lecturer. The initial institutionalization of sport and sports medicine at a German university in 1920 was attributable to his initiatives.

life and work

After graduating from the Bückeburg grammar school in 1900, Huntemüller studied medicine in Freiburg and Munich . After the state examination and doctorate in 1905, he traveled to many countries from North and South America to India, China and Japan as a ship's doctor at North German Lloyd .

On his return he joined the Berlin Institute for Infectious Diseases "Robert Koch" as an assistant. In West and East Prussia he then set up stations to fight typhus and cholera . In 1913 he founded a bacteriological institute in Jerusalem . A year later he completed his habilitation at the Hessian State University in Giessen.

The First World War interrupted Huntemüller's teaching activity in Giessen when he was called up as a military doctor. During this activity he was first a senior physician in a Bavarian field hospital, and later a consultant hygienist for the German Iraq group in Baghdad. In 1917 he was involved in the fight against cholera during the fighting of the German Asia Corps in Palestine .

When he was appointed Associate Professor of Hygiene at the University of Giessen in 1919, he immediately campaigned for the introduction of physical exercise at the universities. Sports courses were offered to students as early as 1919, and in the following winter semester 1919/20, a theoretical course on gymnastics and sport with a medical focus was offered for the first time.

The interests of the Reichswehr Ministry in physical training after the elimination of compulsory military service in Germany under the Versailles Treaty promoted the formation of a university institute for physical culture. Consistent with Huntemüller's goals, the physically completely rotten students about the health and educational value of physical exercise for a physically and morally healthy offspring, free from debilitating epidemics such as tuberculosis, rickets and venereal diseases, insensitive to the lures of Bacchus and Venus can take up the struggle for life to educate.

The opening ceremony of the I. University Institute for the scientific research of physical exercise took place on October 22, 1920 at the University of Giessen in the presence of the Secretary General of the German Reich Committee for Physical Exercise, Carl Diem . It was not until two years later that Huntemüller was entrusted with the management of the institute, which in 1924 was subdivided into a medical-hygienic department and a philosophical-pedagogical department by order of the state government.

In addition to numerous scientific papers on bacteriological field Hunte Müller became famous for his studies on the influence of physical exercises on the natural defenses ... .

Huntemüller played a key role in founding the World Association for Sports Medicine during the Second Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz in 1928. His there and the following IX. The medical examinations carried out at the Olympic Summer Games in Amsterdam in collaboration with Frowalt Heiss marked the beginning of future sports medicine field studies.

literature

  • O. Huntemüller: The cholera on the Sinai front 1917. A contribution to the epidemiology and the fight against infectious diseases. In: Journal of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases. Volume 89, No. 3, Dec. 1919, pp. 416-436.
  • O. Huntemüller: Physical education and school hygiene. Hirt Publishing House, Breslau 1924.
  • PE Nowacki, N. Gissel: Prof. Dr. med. habil. OWG Huntemüller - pioneer of German university sports medicine. In: K. Tittel, K.-H. Arndt, W. Hollmann: Sports medicine - yesterday, today, tomorrow. (= Sports medicine series of the DHfK. Volume 28). JA Barth, Leipzig / Berlin / Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 3-335-00346-2 , pp. 73-77.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ N. Gissel: The founding of the Giessen Institute for Body Culture. In: Institute for Sports Science at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen: Festschrift for the 70th birthday (1920–1990). Copy-shop, Darmstadt 1990, pp. 10-33.
  2. ↑ O. Huntemüller: The influence of physical exercises on the natural defenses (Alexine) in the blood serum. In: The physical exercises. Volume 6, 1930, pp. 435-442.
personal data
SURNAME Huntemuller, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huntemüller, Otto Werner Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, hygienist, sports medicine specialist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoya
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1931
Place of death Davos