Otto Waldmann

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Otto Willy Waldmann (born October 2, 1885 in Pforzheim ; † March 10, 1955 in Cologne ) was a German veterinarian and virologist specializing in animal diseases and a university professor .

Life

Otto Waldmann studied veterinary medicine in Greifswald and Stuttgart between 1904 and 1909. He received his doctorate in 1913 from the College of Veterinary Medicine at the Medical Faculty in Giessen . Waldmann was a member of the corps in the Rudolstadt Seniors' Convent Saxo-Thuringia Munich and Vandalia Königsberg. Later he joined the Corps Marchia Greifswald and the Corps Irminsul .

From 1910 to 1919 Waldmann worked as an assistant at the Hygienic and Pathological Institute of the Veterinary College in Berlin. In 1918 he took part in the First World War as a senior veterinarian . In 1919 he was commissioned to continue the work that Friedrich Loeffler had started on the island of Riems . He became head of the "Research Institute Insel Riems" founded in 1910 and ran it as the "State Research Institute" and - meanwhile as President - from 1943 as the " Reichsforschungsanstalt Insel Riems ". His main activity was research into foot and mouth disease and the production of a high-immune FMD serum. During this activity, Waldmann developed the "Riemser Foot and Mouth Disease Vaccine" in 1938 , which was still used in the epidemic from 1937 to 1938 and which ensured much longer protection against the previous high-immune serum. In 1938 Waldmann was elected to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and in 1940 an adjunct professor at the University of Greifswald , where he completed his habilitation in 1923.

Due to his research results, Waldmann was in discussion for the award of the Nobel Prize . However, due to the isolation of Germany during the Second World War , this did not happen. However, he later received an honorary doctorate in recognition of his achievements .

After the end of the war, he was initially suspended in the Soviet occupation zone and then served as President of the Riemser Institute for two years from April 1946. As a former member of the NSDAP (joined in 1937) and despite his extraordinary life's work, he was removed from service as not “conforming to the system” and emigrated to Argentina at the age of 63 . In Buenos Aires he became head of the Departamento de Vacunas of the Instituto National de La Fiebre Aftosa . After returning to Germany in 1953, he worked in the foot and mouth disease department of Bayer AG in Cologne because he had been denied a pension.

His son was the playwright Dieter Waldmann . After the war, the daughter Elisabeth married Heinz-Christoph Nagel, who had been Waldmann's assistant since 1933.

Fonts

  • The loose wall of the horse. Printer to Gutenberg, Magdeburg 1913.
  • as ed. with Eugen Gildemeister and Eugen Haagen : Handbuch der Viruskrankheiten. With special consideration of their experimental research. 2 volumes. Fischer, Jena 1939.
  • The research and control of virus diseases (= Bremen contributions to natural science. Volume 6, Issue 1, and writings of the Bremen Scientific Society. Series G ). Geist, Bremen 1940.

literature

  • Jan Ulrich Lichte, Research on the island of Riems from 1933 to 1945 with special consideration of Nazi forced laborers , Greifswald, Univ. Diss. 2011 pdf. (PDF; 1.0 MB) Retrieved February 28, 2013 .
  • Hartmut Elers, Andreas Walther, 125 years Corps Irminsul , Hamburg 2005.
  • Erhard Geißler , biological weapons - not in Hitler's arsenals . Biological and toxin warfare agents in Germany from 1915 to 1945 (= Studies on Peace Research, Volume 13), Münster: Lit Verlag 2nd edition 1999.
  • Helmut Steigelmann, Die Pennälerverbindungen Teutonia 1842. A contribution to the history of the high school and the city of Rastatt , ed. from the Association of Old Men of Teutonia 1842. Rastatt: Selbstverlag, 1958, p. 141ff.
  • Heinz-Christoph Nagel, The behavior of the foot and mouth disease virus in newborn laboratory animals, Zbl.Bakt., I Orig. 159 (1952), pp. 40-468.
  • Prof. Dr. Otto Waldmann died. In: Wiener Tierärztliche Monatsschrift, 42, 1955, p. 272
  • Otto Waldmann. In: Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift, 73, 1960, issue 23 (supplement)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Otto Waldmann at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 10, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Waldmann, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldmann, Otto Willy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian and bacteriologist specializing in animal diseases as well as university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1955
Place of death Cologne