Otto Ullrich (doctor)

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Otto Ullrich (born January 7, 1894 in Werdau , Saxony , † October 22, 1957 in Bonn ) was a German pediatrician who dealt with hereditary diseases . In medical literature, Turner syndrome (monosomy X) is often also called Ullrich-Turner syndrome after him and Henry Turner . Turner's description appeared in 1939; Ullrich had published a case with similar symptoms as early as 1930.

Ullrich son was a Saxon factory owner and gained in Zwickau the High School . He studied in Heidelberg and Munich and served as a volunteer in the medical service of the Reichswehr throughout the First World War . He has received several military awards, including a. with the Iron Cross 2nd class. After obtaining his license to practice medicine in 1920, he worked at the University Clinic in Munich, initially as an assistant doctor and from 1925 as a senior physician at the children's clinic under Meinhard von Pfaundler , where he also completed his habilitation in 1929. In 1934 he took over the vacant position as director of the Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria infant home in Berlin, but gave it up after a few months and went to the municipal children's clinic in Essen. In 1939 he was appointed to the chair of the Rostock University Children's Hospital and entrusted with its management. In 1943 he got the same positions in Bonn. According to his own report in 1923, he was a member of a volunteer corps and behaved absolutely loyally to the regime in the Third Reich, although he did not join the NSDAP . Ullrich had been married to a doctor since 1929 and had two children (* 1932 and * 1938).

Otto Ullrich was elected a member of the Leopoldina in 1952. He had been the editor of medical journals since 1940.

The Ullrich type congenital muscular dystrophy is named after him.

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  1. ^ Leonard Pinsky, Robert P. Erickson, R. Neil Schimke: Genetic Disorders of Human Sexual Development . Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-19-510907-8 , p. 74.
  2. ↑ Otto Ullrich: About typical combination images of multiple variations , Zeitschrift für Kinderheilkunde (Berlin), year 49, 1930, pp. 271–276
  3. ^ Member entry by Otto Ullrich at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 19, 2017.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 635f.
personal data
SURNAME Ullrich, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Werdau
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1957
Place of death Bonn