Paul Bertheau

Paul Bertheau (born January 14, 1890 in Oldesloe ; † August 11, 1975 in Schleswig ) was a German doctor. Until 1938 he headed the German Occupational Safety and Health Museum in Berlin, which was converted into a Reich authority .

Life

He was the son of Hermann Bertheau and his wife Dora nee Baetz. After attending school, Paul Bertheau studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen, Königsberg, Munich and Kiel. In Kiel he received his doctorate in 1919 for Dr. med. The topic of his dissertation was Contribution to the teaching of postoperative psychoses. From the psychiatry and mental hospital of the University of Kiel .

After the “Permanent Exhibition for Workers' Welfare” in Berlin-Charlottenburg, which was converted into the “German Occupational Safety and Health Museum” in 1927, celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1928, Paul Bertheau wrote the commemorative publication. The following year he published a monograph on the industrial hygiene department and on the educational mine in this museum. In 1929 Paul Bertheau took part in the IV International Congress de l'organization scientifique du travail in Paris, where he gave a lecture on the human factor in industry.

When the museum was converted into a Reich authority in 1930 and subordinated to the Reich Labor Ministry, he was given its management and was assigned to Reich salary group A on July 15, 1930 as a senior government councilor . At the end of May 1938, he retired as senior government councilor and head of the German Occupational Safety and Health Museum at the age of 48.

Paul Bertheau then worked as a practicing doctor in Schleswig.

Fonts (selection)

• 25 years of the German Occupational Safety and Health Museum 1903–1928 . Berlin 1928.
• The industrial hygiene department in the German Occupational Safety and Health Museum, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Frauenhoferstraße 11/12 . W. Büxenstein, Berlin 1929.
• with Heinrich Reimann: The training mine in the German Occupational Safety and Health Museum, Berlin-Charlottenburg . W. Büxenstein, Berlin, 1929.
• The human factor in industry . IVe Congrès intern. De l'organization scientifique du travail, Paris 1929.
• The German Occupational Safety and Health Museum . In: The German administrative officer . Berlin 1935, no.19.

literature

• Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? . Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 110.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Gender Book, Volume 195, 1989, p. 181.