Otto Pittinger

Otto Pittinger (born February 12, 1878 in Wörth an der Donau , † August 1926 in Munich ) was a Bavarian medical councilor , politician and soldier .

Medical Councilor Otto Pittinger

Life

Otto Pittinger was born in Wörth on the Danube as the son of a brewery owner. After leaving school, he studied in Munich Medicine and 1898 was a member of the Munich while studying Corps Ratisbonia .

Time as a civil doctor

After completing his medical training, he settled in Regensburg as a general practitioner and also worked there as a railway doctor . In addition, he was involved in the field of infant care and was one of the first doctors to take part in the efforts to provide infant care in the German Reich . In 1906 he founded the first maternity advice center in Regensburg. In 1907 he founded the association to combat child mortality. This institution was successful through his chairmanship and three years later expanded as a district association over the entire Upper Palatinate . It was the first district association of the Center for Infant Care . In 1910 Pittinger founded the infant home and the milk kitchen in Regensburg and expanded the facility. It was the first urban nursing home in Bavaria .

Time as a military doctor

Wound care in the First World War

During the First World War , from 1914 to 1917, Pittinger was employed from the beginning as a medical officer in the 6th Reserve Division . During the trench warfare he was entrusted with the creation and establishment of the various welfare institutions. In this facility he was responsible for the health equipment of the quarters and barracks for the reserves, the creation of an officer's and rest home, a disinfection and cleaning facility, the establishment of mineral water factories and bathing establishments as well as all facilities serving the welfare and health of the troops. In the front line he took care of the treatment of the wounded and their psychological condition. He was a bearer of the Iron Cross 1st class .

At the end of 1917, the Bavarian Ministry of War entrusted him with the construction of the Unterhaching war settlement . This was a training and model company for war invalids .

After the First World War

After the war he returned to Regensburg, where he campaigned against the November Revolution. Here he was significantly involved in the creation of the Bavarian Resident Defense in the Upper Palatinate and took over its management in the Regensburg region.

After this weir was dissolved in 1921, he created the "Organization Pittinger", which was renamed in 1922 to the Bund Bayern und Reich . This organization strove to rebuild the country through the monarchy with the Bismarckian empire as well as the physical training of the youth. It was a paramilitary umbrella organization with close contacts to the Reichswehr and by mid-1922 developed into the strongest association of its kind in Bavaria. Here he was chairman alongside Otto von Stetten and Robert Ritter von Xylander until 1926. Pittinger was involved in the preparations for a march on Berlin in 1923, the "Bund Bayern und Reich" disintegrated from 1923 and merged into the " Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten " from 1929 .

In August 1926, Medical Councilor Otto Pittinger died at the age of 48 on the way back from the Adriatic Sea . His final resting place is in the Munich forest cemetery .

Appreciation

The community of Unterhaching honored his work as the founder of the settlement by dedicating a street name and naming a square.

literature

Fritz Jörgl: Brief Wörther folklore "10 years of volunteer work at home nurses ". Publisher City of Wörth ad Donau. Oberpfalzverlag Laßleben, Kallmünz 2012, ISBN 978-3-7847-1224-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Karl Rügemer: Kösener corps lists from 1798 to 1910 . Ed .: Kösener Seniors Convents Association , Association of Old Corps Students . Publishers of the Academic Monthly Issues, Starnberg January 8, 2012, 176 Ratisbonia Munich, p. 793 , top right ( corpsarchive.de [PDF; 58.0 MB ; accessed on January 6, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Pittinger, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bavarian medical council, politician and soldier
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wörth on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH	August 1926
Place of death	Munich

[1] Karl Rügemer: Kösener corps lists from 1798 to 1910 . Ed .: Kösener Seniors Convents Association , Association of Old Corps Students . Publishers of the Academic Monthly Issues, Starnberg January 8, 2012, 176 Ratisbonia Munich, p. 793 , top right ( corpsarchive.de [PDF; 58.0 MB ; accessed on January 6, 2020]).