Otto Wendel

Otto Wendel (born December 29, 1869 in Brackenheim , † March 11, 1951 in Madrid ) was a German doctor in Madrid. The construction of the German Hospital in Madrid goes back to him.

Life

Otto Wendel was a son of the Brackenheimer Stadtschultheißen Gotthilf Wendel and completed a military medical training, during which he carried out experiments with Behring's diphtheria serum with Professor Bergmann in Berlin . In 1900 he came to China as a military doctor with the German expeditionary force during the Boxer Rebellion . Later he was at the German medical school in Shanghai, today's Tongji University . After traveling to the USA, Japan and Brazil, he came to Madrid in 1913 as an embassy doctor. There he had a large building he had acquired converted into a German hospital. On December 22, 1930, he and his brother Eugen Wendel were granted honorary citizenship of their hometown Brackenheim, where the brothers donated three church windows and regularly donated money for charitable purposes, although they had lost their citizenship as a foreigner due to the new Württemberg municipal code of 1930. On April 9, 1945 he was commissioned by the Spanish government to protect Germans in Spain.

Fonts

• Otto Wendel: One life - my life: curriculum vitae , Brackenheim 1996. ISBN 978-3980666756 . (Autobiography published posthumously by the city of Brackenheim.)

literature

• Isolde Döbele-Carlesso : "Otto Wendel - Embassy doctor and founder of the German Hospital in Madrid". In: Otto Wendel: A life - my life: curriculum vitae , Brackenheim 1996, pp. IX - XXIV.
• Home book of the city of Brackenheim and its districts. City of Brackenheim, Brackenheim 1980