Otto Ziegler (doctor)

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Bust of Otto Ziegler at the KRH Clinic Siloah ;
Sculptor August Waterbeck , 1934

Otto Ziegler (born July 4, 1879 in Varel , † November 27, 1931 in Göttingen ) was a German doctor and university professor .

Life

The scion of an old family of doctors, Otto Ziegler was born in 1879 in the small town of Varel in what was then the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . Since his father accepted a position as senior physician at the military orphanage in Potsdam , Ziegler received his first school education there.

Heidehaus sanatorium , Ziegler's place of work from 1907;
Postcard from Karl F. Wunder , around 1907

During his studies in 1898 he became a member of the Nibelungia Marburg Landsmannschaft .

On June 2, 1907, the Heidehaus sanatorium was founded in the north of Hanover under the medical direction of Otto Ziegler.

In the mid-1920s, during a meeting of the two organizations of German medical facility and welfare doctors in Danzig , Otto Ziegler was the driving force and then also the first chairman of the German Tuberculosis Society (DTG) founded in spring 1925 , which later became part of the DPG .

At a conference in Wildbad in 1928, Ziegler was first elected second chairman of the DTG and later its first chairman.

Otto Ziegler died of gastric carcinoma in 1931 after a long illness .

Ziegler monument

In 1934 the sculptor August Waterbeck created the "Ziegler Monument", which was erected in the garden of the Heidehaus.

Archival material

An archive can be found for example,

  • in the estate of Robert Koch a letter of thanks from Ziegler to Koch, dated December 6, 1909, with a reference to the sending of a book as thanks (date from Koch dated December 12 [19] 09)

literature

  • August Heitmüller : Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature (August Heitmüller drew the heads. Wilhelm Metzig designed the entire equipment of the plant.), Vol. 2, Hanover: Verlag H. Osterwald, 1929
  • Frank Kellner: In memoriam Otto Ziegler. On the 20th anniversary of his death. In: The tuberculosis doctor. Monthly magazine for practice. Permanent organ and bulletin of the German Central Committee for Combating Tuberculosis, the Scientific Society of Southwest German Tuberculosis Doctors, the North German Tuberculosis Society, the Rhenish-Westphalian Tuberculosis Association, the South German Tuberculosis Society, and the Association of Freelance Lung Specialists, Germany , Vol. 5th, Stuttgart: 1951, 10, p. 561f.
  • Wilhelm Ebel : Catalogus Professorum Gottingesium 1734–1962 , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1962, p. 81

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Die Tuberkulose , Volumes 12–13, 1932, p. 1; Preview over google books
  2. ^ Ziegler, Otto in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek , last accessed on May 16, 2016
  3. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 331.
  4. ↑ Bernhard Koch (Red.): 50 Years of the Oststadt-Heidehaus Clinic , Ed .: Heidehaus-Oststadt Clinic, Hannover Region Clinic, [o. D.], p. 22; downloadable  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as a PDF document@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.krh.eu  
  5. ↑ NN ; Review of the first 50 meetings of the German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine (DGP) on the Thieme-Becker website , last accessed on May 16, 2016
  6. ↑ a b Zentralblatt for the entire tuberculosis research. Organ of the German Society for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases , 1932, p. 175; Preview over google books
  7. ^ Hugo Thielen : Waterbeck, August. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 377; online through google books
  8. ^ Ragnhild Münch : Robert Koch and his legacy in Berlin (= publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin , vol. 104), Berlin; New York: de Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 3-11-017691-2 , pp. 312, 342; online through google books
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Varel
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1931
Place of death Goettingen