Paul Christian

Ernst Paul Helmut Christian (born November 26, 1910 in Heidelberg ; † January 8, 1996 ibid) was a German physician, university professor, founder of the Institute for Social and Occupational Medicine and director of the Department of Internal Medicine II at the Medical University Clinic in Heidelberg.

Life

Christian was the son of the Reichsbahnoberrat Karl Christian and his wife Helene, née Kraemer. The paternal grandfather, Karl Josef Christian, was a university riding instructor. During the First World War Paul Christian attended elementary schools in Heidelberg and Karlsruhe and finally the grammar school in Karlsruhe. Here he passed his matriculation examination in 1929 and decided to study medicine, the preclinical semester of which he spent in Heidelberg. After completing a physics course, he continued his studies in Vienna and then moved again to Heidelberg. State examination and doctorate took place there in 1934. The license to practice medicine took place in 1935as a doctor. The career was initially a surgical and internal medicine in Karlsruhe. In 1936 he changed Christian to the field of neurology and worked at the Ludolf von Krehl Clinic, where in 1939 he became a full assistant to Viktor von Weizsäcker . Since July 1, 1933, Paul Christian was a member of the SA as a medical officer, and since May 1, 1937, he was also a member of the NSDAP and the NSDÄB . From 1939 he was also a junior doctor at the Heidelberg Reserve Hospital.

His post-doctoral thesis in 1939 was entitled "Reality and Appearance of Perception of Movement." In continuation of the work of Prince von Auersperg , Paul Christian in the Weizsäcker laboratory turned to experimental-theoretical problems of perception in this post-doctoral thesis. Christian's most interesting discovery was the evidence of an unconscious vestibular effect on seeing movements. The award of the degree of Dr. med. He was awarded habil on January 18, 1940 by Ernst Rodenwaldt , Dean of the Medical Faculty, and Minister Paul Schmitthenner , Professor of History and War Studies, Rector of Heidelberg University . Christian received funding from the Walter-Erb Foundation for his habilitation . The inaugural lecture finally took place on February 29, 1940 in the lecture hall of the old surgical clinic on the subject of " The topical diagnosis of brain tumors ". On June 7, 1941, the request of the Reich Minister for Science, Education and Public Education was granted and Paul Christian was appointed to the chair of internal medicine, which had become vacant through the appointment of Professor Freiherr von Weizsäcker to Breslau , and also took over the management of the mental hospital. Viktor von Weizsäcker, for his part, applied for the transfer of his civilian senior physician Paul Christian from Heidelberg to Breslau in July 1941. Paul Christian followed Viktor von Weizsäcker's request and moved to Breslau. In August 1942 he married Johanna Christian geb. Herrmann from Frankenstein. The marriage produced a son and a daughter. Paul Christian stayed in Breslau until 1945 and then fled to the West.

From 1946 he worked again in the Ludolf von Krehl Clinic in Heidelberg, initially as a senior physician (under Richard Siebeck and Karl Matthes ). In 1946, Paul Christian was classified as a follower by the Wiesloch judging chamber in the course of denazification . From 1949 he was an adjunct professor in 1958, when he took over the re-established chair for general clinical medicine at the University of Heidelberg. In 1966 he took over the second internal medicine university clinic in Heidelberg. Here he worked from 1966, together with the physiologist Hans Schaefer , with the educationalists Hermann Röhrs and Kurt Hahn in an interdisciplinary colloquium with criminologists, sports scientists and deaconry scientists on youth issues and represented the perspective of psychosomatics. In this interdisciplinary context, theses were also written at the sister school of Heidelberg University .

Even after his retirement in 1975, Paul Christian continued to accompany the “ Stress ” research group he founded as a consultant.

Fonts

As an author:

• Paul Christian: About a case of idiopathic hemiatrophia humeroscapulo-thoracalis with anemic and telangiectatic nevi and Irish heterochromia (Dtsch. Zeitschrf. Nervenheilkunde 144, 1937).
• Paul Christian: About unconscious vestibular effect (Zeitschr. Fd ges. Neurologie und Psych. 165, 1939).
• Paul Christian: About reflex trigeminal neuralgia (Dtsch. Z. f. Nervenheilk. 150, 1940)
• Paul Christian: Ludolf von Krehl and medical personalism . In: Heidelberger Jahrbücher 6 (1962) pp. 207–210.
• Paul Christian with Herbert Plügge and Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk : On human movement as a unity of nature and spirit , contributions to teaching and research in physical education , Vol. 14, Hofmann Schorndorf 1963.
• Paul Christian: Medicina anthropólogica. Traducción, nota preliminar y notas de Fernando Lolas Stepke , Universitaria Verlag Santiago de Chile 1997.

As editor:

• Paul Christian (Ed.): Medicus viator. Questions and thoughts on Richard Siebeck's path ; a celebration of his friends and students for his 75th birthday , Mohr Tübingen 1959.

Honors

• Paul Christian was an honorary member of the Viktor von Weizsäcker Society.
• Symposium Paul Christian on the 100th birthday at Heidelberg University Hospital: Psychophysiology and bi-personality, intersubjectivity and psychosomatics (November 26-27, 2010).

literature

• Eich, Wolfgang with the participation of Rainer M. Jacobi (Ed.): Bipersonalität, Psychophysiologie und Anthropologische Medizin, Paul Christian on his 100th birthday , contributions to the med. Anthropologie Vol. 8, Königshausen and Neumann Würzburg 2014.
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Christian: Experimental studies on the dependence of the pupillary reaction on the intensity, extent and duration of the light stimulus in normal and pathological states (Diss. 1939)
2. ^ Opinion on habilitation thesis by Viktor von Weizsäcker, PA 7669 Paul Christian University Archives Heidelberg.
3. ^ Correspondence of the Educational Science Seminar University of Heidelberg, Rep. 211/217, University Archives Heidelberg.
4. ↑ Margit Büttner: Young people sex delinquents - their problems and treatment by the youth psychiatrist, thesis on further training to become a teaching nurse 1969/70, May 1971, 35 sheets; Estate of the sister school of Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University Archives Acc 43/08. Supervision of the work: Antje Grauhan .
5. ↑ Christine R. Auer (eds.): Antje Grauhan and Wolfgang Rapp (Dept. Paul Christian): The expansion of the bipersonal to a tripersonal situation presented us with new challenges. For Sabine Bartholomeyczik for the Federal Cross of Merit 2015. Self-published, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050734-2 .
6. ↑ congratulatory letter of the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg for the 80th birthday of Paul Christian, pronounced by the rectors Volker Sellin , personnel file 9069 University Archives Heidelberg.
7. ^ Herbert Plügge, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki , accessed on March 9, 2017.
8. ^ Viktor von Weizsäcker Gesellschaft: Honorary Members , accessed on February 28, 2017.
9. ^ The city editors: Symposium Paul Christian 100th birthday , accessed on February 28, 2010.
10. ^ Website Heidelberg University Hospital: Symposium Paul Christian 100th birthday , accessed on February 28, 2017.
11. ↑ Conference program: Symposium Paul Christian 100th birthday , accessed on February 28, 2017.