Paul Wichmann

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Paul Wichmann (born June 30, 1872 in Wiesbaden ; † August 20, 1960 ) was a German dermatologist and professor at the University of Hamburg .

Life

Wichmann was the son of the lawyer, Prussian government official and youngest member of the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848 , Wilhelm Wichmann (1820–1888). After graduating from high school in Bonn, he studied medicine in Berlin. He became assistant to Oskar Lassar . Among his patients were many celebrities up to the highest circles, e. B. from the Russian tsarist house. In 1912, Paul Wichmann, who worked as a dermatologist in Hamburg, built a lupus home next to the Eppendorf hospital using donations, grants from the state insurance company and income from the health insurance companies . He has treated 3,000 patients here over the years. The Hamburg Dermatological Society was founded in 1919 . The later expanded building became the property of the hospital free of charge on July 31, 1923. Wichmann took over the position of senior physician in charge, and in 1924 he was appointed associate professor. His main interest was skin tuberculosis , which he fought with light treatment after the Danish Nobel Prize winner Niels Ryberg Finsen and with radioactive radiation ( radium ) at an early stage . In part-time he was a medical officer for the AOK and the marine trade association . Because of the part-time job, he was dismissed on July 26, 1933 for political reasons. Nevertheless, his name can be found under the confession of the German professors to Adolf Hitler .

Pillow stone for Paul Wichmann, Ohlsdorf cemetery

As a great music lover, Wichmann was on duty as a theater doctor at the Hamburg State Opera when, after the performance on the evening of May 14, 1912 at the Gänsemarkt, he became aware of an older man who was apparently not doing well. After a brief emergency supply, the apparently foreign man tried to continue on his way, but collapsed. He identified himself as "Graf Kronsborg" and stated that he lived in the Hotel Hamburger Hof . Wichmann called a cab and arranged for it to be transported to the port hospital that was responsible for such emergencies. There the doctor in charge could only determine the Dane's death. It later turned out that it was the Danish King Frederik VIII , who had stayed in the hotel on Jungfernstieg under a pseudonym and had been physically overwhelmed by an evening visit to the brothel near the city theater.

Wichmann only practiced as a resident doctor until 1945. After the war he was one of the re-founders of the Hamburg Dermatological Society. In Hamburg society, Wichmann was considered an original with a strong storytelling talent and was a great music lover.

The Schneider-Sievers / Wichmann grave with cushion stone for Paul Wichmann is located in grid square W 24 (east of Chapel 2) at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

Fonts

  • (Ed.): The physical healing methods in the service of health insurance , Leipzig 1930

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Department of Dermatology at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, accessed on November 6, 2018
  2. ↑ Die Welt, August 12, 2012 death of a Danish monarch
personal data
SURNAME Wichmann, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist and professor at the University of Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1960