Richard Gotze

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Richard Otto Götze (born October 12, 1890 in Oberlichtenau ; † December 17, 1955 in Hanover ) was a German professor of veterinary medicine specializing in cattle diseases and veterinary obstetrics and rector of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover from January 1934 to March 1937.

He worked in the fields of brucellosis , Gasödem infections, warble flies , Räudebekämpfung , actinomycosis , papillomatosis, bovine tuberculosis , enzootic bovine leukosis , grass tetany , liver fluke and lung worm disease, an expert in the field who had artificial insemination and developed surgical techniques, such as by he named ruminotomy in cattle with extraperitoneal treatment of the rumen according to Götze, as well as medical instruments such as the phonendoscope according to Götze .

Life

Götze grew up with two brothers and his sister Frida, with whom he kept lifelong contact, in simple circumstances on the parents' farm of the farmer and grain dealer Valentin Christian Götze and his wife Pauline Ernestine, née Liebert. He attended elementary school in Oberlichtenau and in 1903 switched to the Oberrealschule in Chemnitz, where he graduated in 1911 with the grade "very good". In the summer semester of 1911 he began studying veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Dresden , where he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Dresden (today Landsmannschaft Hansea auf dem Wels ). In November 1914 he obtained his license to practice as a veterinarian and passed the veterinary examination with an emergency exam with the grade “good”.

During the war he was assigned to changing regiments of infantry, guard riders and field artillery from January 1915 and was promoted from sub-veterinarian to veterinary. In July 1916 he received his doctorate under Wilhelm Ellenberger to Dr. med. vet. at the University of Veterinary Medicine Dresden with the thesis Oscillatory blood pressure measurements on healthy horses and horses suffering from osteomalacia . Until his discharge from army service in December 1918, he ran a horse hospital as a veterinary officer. Already in February 1919 Götze found a job as first scientific assistant to Johannes Max Hugo Richter at the Institute for Animal Breeding and Obstetrics at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Dresden, passed the Saxon state veterinary examination on November 27, 1920 with the grade "very good" February 1922 the examination for animal breeding inspector with the grade "good" in Berlin. In 1923 he completed his habilitation in animal breeding and obstetrics at the University of Leipzig. The title of his work was: Breeding-biological studies on the blood equipment of farm pets .

Because of the connection of the University of Veterinary Medicine Dresden to the University of Leipzig as a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine , Götze moved from Dresden to Leipzig, where he worked from 1923 to 1925 as a private lecturer in animal breeding and obstetrics, until he was appointed associate professor on November 5, 1925.

On December 1, 1925, in connection with his appointment as a full professor and the appointment of a full professor for obstetrics and buiatrics, he moved as director of the newly established inpatient clinic for obstetrics and cattle diseases at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover . In the following two years Götze lived in a furnished apartment at Fichtestrasse 29 in Hannover-Kleefeld, where he met Margarita Luise Berta Meta Engelke (called Marga), the daughter of his landlord, who was sixteen years younger and whom he finally met on August 4th Married in 1928. In the years 1929 to 1937 the birth of their three children followed. From 1928 the couple lived in a house bought by Götze near the University of Veterinary Medicine at Kaulbachstraße 18 in Hannover-Kleefeld until they were affected by an air raid by the Allies in 1943 and burned out, and the family subsequently lived with Götze's in-laws lived.

Completed in 1939, today a listed building of the Rinderklinik (today Physiological Institute), Bischofsholer Damm 15

For the clinic for obstetrics and cattle diseases, which is currently under construction, sick cattle had to be purchased in order to ensure the practical lessons of the students until their reputation was also established in the surrounding farming communities and the number of inpatient admission of sick animals increased. In 1925 the clinic did not have its own building, but made provisional use of rooms from other faculties. It was not until 1929 that teaching and research buildings, an operating theater and stables for twenty-five cattle were built, and the complex was steadily expanded until 1938, including a building on Bischofsholer Damm, which was initially not completed due to the start of the war, with the exception of five Rooms on the first floor in 1942. As a result of the heavy air raid on Hanover on October 9, 1943, the clinic lost a large part of its rooms, but temporarily resumed operations at the end of November. It was not until 1950 that the clinic was finally able to move into the new building.

The denazification Gotze after his release from university teaching in October 1945 lasted until 1948. During this time he put the "Textbook of veterinary obstetrics" and a book about the "insemination and infertility of domestic mammals" finished. In order to secure the livelihood for his family, he worked on the reconstruction of the Sarstedt Animal Clinic, organized on behalf of the Directorate for Thoroughbred Breeding and Races e. V. in Cologne took over the hygienic supervision of breeding and continued the veterinary management at two insemination associations in Pinneberg and Lindau near Eckernförde, which he had held since 1942. His membership in the NSDAP (from May 1933, membership number 2957980) and Reichsdozentenschaft, in the NS teachers' association (from May 1934), NSD lecturers association (from 1936), NS-Altherrenverband (from October 1936), Reichskolonialbund (from January 1937), Stahlhelm and SA-Reserve I (resigned December 1934) and the Reichsluftschutzbund were not attributed to Götze's active political motivation by the investigative committee, since the majority of the professorships were joined collectively at the behest of the Senate. His colleagues also spoke out in favor of him as part of the investigation. In October 1948 he was completely relieved with the classification in Category V , resumed teaching and was appointed director of the Clinic for Obstetrics and Cattle Diseases. He was fully rehabilitated on April 1, 1950 when the Lower Saxony Minister of Education reappointed the appointment of the Ordinariate for Obstetrics and Cattle Diseases and the civil servant relationship was renewed on April 18.

During Götze's tenure, the institute building with lecture hall, laboratories, course and business rooms, operations department and stable building was built. Götzes ordinariate originally comprised obstetrics, cattle diseases, udder diseases as well as breeding diseases and diseases. In the course of his activities, he endeavored to create his own professorships and clinics for the increasingly specialized departments. He himself was appointed to the Chair of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Semen Transfer in October 1953 and was director of the Clinic for Animal Obstetrics and Gynecology. In October 1955 Götze took sick leave due to his worsening state of health due to angina pectoris that had been diagnosed as early as 1935 and kidney problems that had existed for years, after having had several cures and hospital stays from 1952 onwards. On December 17, 1955, Götze died of his heart disease. His grave is in the cemetery in Hannover-Kleefeld.

Honors

  • October 1955: Golden Hermann von Nathusius Medal of the German Society for Breeding Science for his great services in combating cattle diseases.
  • October 1955: Appointment as a corresponding member of the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin / East .
  • July 27, 1953: Awarded an honorary doctorate (Doktor medicinae veterinariae honoris causa) from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Leipzig for his services as a teacher of cattle diseases and his research in the field of veterinary medicine.
  • October 1942: Appointment as honorary member of the Finnish Veterinary Association on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
  • February 1939: Appointment as a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in recognition of his work in the fields of obstetrics, breeding diseases and diseases of domestic animals.
  • March 1917: Albrechts-Order II class.
  • December 1915: Iron Cross 2nd class
posthumously
  • The Richard-Götze-Haus of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover is named in his honor.
  • Foundation of the golden "Richard Götze Memorial Medal" of the Association of German Cattle Breeders on the occasion of Götze's tenth anniversary of his death in January 1966
  • Gold plaque on the occasion of the fifth world congress on animal reproduction and artificial insemination in Trento in 1964 for his services in these areas.

Fonts

In addition to numerous scientific articles in specialist journals, he published six textbooks, several monographs and 28 instructional films.

  • (together with Hermann Miessner) Dowsing rod experiments at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover . Schaper, Hanover, 1936
  • Perineal tear suture, vulvar and vaginal atrial plasty in mares and cows . Hanover, 1938.
  • Modern embryotomy in horses and cattle . Hanover, 1938.
  • Insemination and sterility of domestic mammals . Hanover, 1949.
  • (together with Johannes Richter) Textbook of animal obstetrics . Berlin, 1950
  • Modern embryotomy in horses and cattle . Schaper, Hanover, 1950
  • Diseases of the cattle and their treatment . Hanover, 1954

literature

  • Frank von Minden: Richard Götze (1890–1955). Life and work. Dissertation, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover 2013, DVG-Service, Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-86345-138-7 . ( Digitized version )

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