Reinhold Ritter

Reinhold Ritter (born February 15, 1903 in Servitut , Silesia ; † September 11, 1987 in Heidelberg ) was a German dentist and university professor .

Life

Reinhold Ritter, who comes from the Upper Silesian town of Servitut, turned to studying dentistry after completing his Abitur , which he achieved with the academic degree of Dr. med. dent. completed. After several years as an assistant doctor , Reinhold Ritter completed his habilitation in 1937 as a private lecturer in the subject of dental, oral and maxillofacial medicine at the University of Breslau , where he was appointed as a non-civil servant professor in 1943, before moving to the civil servant professorship for the same subject at the University of Marburg in 1946 changed.

In the following year he accepted the offer for the full professorship for dental, oral and maxillofacial medicine at the University of Heidelberg . Ritter, who also headed the University Clinic and Polyclinic for Oral, Dental and Maxillofacial Patients, retired in 1971 . Reinhold Ritter, who was awarded the annual prize of the German Society for Dental, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine , was accepted as a full member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1966.

Memberships in Nazi organizations

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he became a member of the SA in 1934 , where he achieved the rank of medical officer. He joined the NSDAP in 1937 and was also a member of the Nazi teachers ' and teachers' association.

Fonts

• Damage to teeth due to scaling injuries, dissertation , Schreiber, 1928
• On the question of the inheritance of anomalies of the jaws and teeth: after studies on 126 dizygoti, 96 identical pairs of twins, one case of quadruplets, and animal breeding experiments, Meusser, 1937
• Hereditary disposition for dentition and teeth, In: Volume 4 of Handbuch der Erbbiologie des Menschen, J. Springer, 1940
• Hereditary pathology of cleft lip and palate, In: Volume 4 of Handbuch der Erbbiologie des Menschen, J. Springer, 1940
• The development of dentition anomalies when crossing a large-skulled and small-skulled rabbit and their peristatic influence, 1941
• Publications from the field of dental, oral and maxillofacial medicine, In: Textbook of Dentistry, 1950
• The interventions on the teeth, jaws, lips and palate with the necessary prosthetic-orthopedic measures, In: Allgemeine und Spezialoperlehre von Martin Kirschner , Volume IV, Berlin, 1956

literature

• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 2, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-110-07434-6 , pages 3154, 3155.
• Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who?: The German Who's Who, Volume 18, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck, 1983 ISBN 3-795-02003-4 . Page 991.
• Heinz Häfner : Why do women get schizophrenia later? Meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Mathematical and Natural Science Class, Springer-Verlag , Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1994 ISBN 3-540-57490-5 . Page 33.
• Dominik Groß, Jens Westemeier, Mathias Schmidt: "The basic color of history is gray [...]". Reinhold Ritter (1903-1987) - life and reception history , in: Dominik Groß, Jens Westemeier, Mathias Schmidt, Thorsten Halling, Matthis Krischel (eds.): Dentists and dentistry in the “Third Reich”. An inventory (= Medicine and National Socialism, 6), LIT: Berlin, Münster 2018, pp. 285–321. ISBN 978-3-643-13914-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 499