Otto Steurer

Otto Friedrich Steurer (born November 9, 1893 in Freudenstadt , † July 29, 1959 in Hamburg ) was a German ENT doctor , professor and rector of the University of Rostock .

Life

Otto Steurer was the son of master dyer Carl Steurer (1857–?) And his wife Karoline (1865–?), Née Kempf. After completing his Abitur in Esslingen am Neckar , he studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen and Strasbourg from 1911 to 1917 , interrupted by his continuous participation in the First World War . He completed his studies in 1917 with the state examination, was approved and in the same year in Tübingen as a Dr. med. PhD . From 1919 he worked as an assistant at the Pathological Institute of the University of Munich , and changed - meanwhile a specialist in ear, nose and throat medicine - in 1921 to the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic of the University of Jena . After settling in Tübingen for ear, nose and throat medicine 1923 Habilitation had, he then worked as a senior physician and first lecturer (from 1927 as associate professor) at the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic of the University of Tuebingen.

In 1929, Steurer was appointed to succeed Otto Körner as professor of otiatry, rhinology and laryngology at the University of Rostock, where he was also director of the university clinic and polyclinic for ear, nose and throat diseases. From 1933 he was dean of the medical faculty for one year , from 1939 initially prorector and from 1941 to 1944 rector of the University of Rostock. During the Nazi era , he joined the Nazi teachers 'association in 1934 , the NSDAP in 1937 and the Nazi lecturers' association in 1940 . In addition, he belonged to the NS-Reichskriegerbund , the NS-Altherrenbund , the Reichsluftschutzbund and was a supporting member of the SS . In June 1942 he was awarded the War Merit Cross, Second Class with Swords. Steurer was accepted into the Leopoldina in 1940 .

At the beginning of April 1945 Steurer temporarily took over the chair for ear, nose and throat medicine at the University of Hamburg , where he was appointed full professor in 1946 and headed the ear, nose and throat clinic. He rendered outstanding services to the modernization of the Hamburg ENT clinic. His main research areas were "pathological histology and radiology" of ENT medicine. Steurer died suddenly of a heart attack in 1959 .

From 1930 to 1939 he was the editor of the specialist journal Der Ohr-Nasen-Ohrarzt , from 1948 of the Zentralblatt für ENT and the supplements to the journal for Otorhinolaryngology and from 1949 of the Archive for Ear, Nose and Larynx . He was the editor of the multiple editions of the textbook on ear, nose and throat diseases by Otto Körner.

Fonts (selection)

• About bleeding from the ear and the upper airways as a result of vasomotor disorders , dissertation at the University of Tübingen 1917
• Contributions to the pathological anatomy and pathology of tympanogenic labyrinth inflammation , habilitation thesis at the University of Tübingen 1923

literature

• Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. A biographical lexicon , Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11775-6 .
• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 .
• 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 .
• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 9: Schlumberger – Thiersch. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. KG Saur Verlag , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-25039-2 , p. 695 (short biography of Steurer, Otto ).
• Academic teaching centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Germany in the 20th century . German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin 1996, ISBN 978-3-642-80066-5 .

Web links

• Entry on Otto Steurer in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. A biographical lexicon , Saur, Munich 2007, p. 391
2. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Otto Steurer
3. ↑ Hamburg . In: Academic teaching centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Germany in the 20th century . German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1996, p. 148f.