Paul Schmidt (hygienist)

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Karl Paul Schmidt (born November 23, 1872 in Neustadt in Saxony , † March 17, 1950 in Halle ) was a German hygienist .

Life

Paul Schmidt was the son of a wire goods manufacturer and, after attending school in Neustadt, Zittau and Leipzig , studied medicine at the universities of Leipzig , Würzburg , Berlin , Munich and Freiburg from 1893 .

In 1897 he was at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a thesis on comatose states with particular reference to the differential diagnosis of Dr. med. PhD . He then volunteered at the Women's Clinic and the Pathological Institute of the University of Munich and worked as a ship's doctor from 1899 to 1902. In 1902 he became an assistant at the Institute for Tropical Hygiene in Hamburg for a short time and then moved to the Bavarian Bacteriological Research Station in Landau . In 1903 he became an assistant at the Hygiene Institute of the University of Leipzig , habilitated here in 1908 for hygiene and then worked as a private lecturer and from 1913 as an associate professor for hygiene. In 1914 he accepted a call to the professorship for hygiene at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

During the First World War , Paul Schmidt did military service as a hygienist in prison camps and in the fortress of Metz . From 1917 until his retirement in 1939 he was a full professor at the University of Halle and head of the Hygiene Institute. From 1939 to 1944 Paul Schmidt served as a medical officer and advisory hygienist in what was then Military District IV . In 1945, after his successor Adolf Seiser was released and interned, he was again director of the Institute of Hygiene. In 1949 he retired.

In addition to bacteriology, he had also been reading racial hygiene since the 1920s . His students included Joachim Mrugowsky , who later became the director of the Waffen-SS Hygiene Institute, and Friedrich Weyrauch, a hygienist and member of the SS . Schmidt created the student "hygienic shock troops", which dealt with social and occupational hygiene issues, but above all carried out anthropological measurements of the population of the province of Saxony .

In 1925 Paul Schmidt became a member of the German Sea Club and in September 1933 he joined the Stahlhelm . From 1935 to 1945 he was a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare . In 1946 he became a member of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) .

Karl Paul Schmidt was admitted to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina on October 4, 1922 ( matriculation no. 3481 ) .

He was awarded the Hessian Medal of Honor for War Merit, the Hessian Military Medical Cross on the War Band and the Iron Cross, 2nd class.

Fonts (selection)

  • About comatose states with special consideration of the differential diagnosis . Munich 1897
  • About changes in the liver and kidneys in severe jaundice . Wuerzburg 1901
  • Early diagnosis of lead poisoning . Berlin 1919
  • About the development of cold catarrhs . Jena 1932
  • New studies on the problem of influenza in humans and animals . Stuttgart 1936

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Gutzmer (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 58th issue. On commission from Max Niemeyer, Halle 1923, p. 19 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Karl Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt in Saxony
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1950
Place of death Hall