Richard Otto
Richard Ernst Wilhelm Otto (born November 9, 1872 in Zimmerhausen , Regenwalde district ; † August 12, 1952 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German medical officer and bacteriologist.
Life
Otto studied medicine at the Medical and Surgical Friedrich Wilhelm Institute . He became a member of the Pépinière-Corps Suevo-Borussia (1892) and Saxonia (1907). The Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin doctorate him in 1895 to Dr. med. In 1897 he received his license to practice medicine . As a medical officer he was assigned to the Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases Robert Koch in Berlin in 1902 , where he was promoted to medical officer in 1903 . From 1904 to 1907 he conducted research at the Institute for Experimental Therapy in Frankfurt am Main. In 1906 Otto was appointed professor . In 1907 he became a battalion doctor and head of the hygienic and bacteriological laboratory at the medical office of the X Army Corps in Hanover . During this time he was a private lecturer at the Technical University of Hanover in 1908/13 . Otto was dismissed from active service in 1913 when he was promoted to senior staff doctor in the Fusilier Regiment “General-Field Marshal Prince Albrecht von Prussia” (Hannoversches) No. 73 . From 1913 Otto worked again at the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin. In 1920 he was appointed Senior Physician General of the Reserve a. D. In 1935 Otto returned to the Institute for Experimental Therapy in Frankfurt am Main and in the same year became honorary professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , finally in 1936 honorary professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität . In 1942 he became a member of the Scientific Senate of the Army Medical Services. After the end of the Second World War (1945) Otto was part of the editorial team of the textbook series Borderlands of Medicine until he finally retired on August 1, 1948.
Honors
- Secret Medical Council (1918)
- Aronson Prize (1931)
- Elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1932)
See also
literature
- Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956) . In: East German family studies . tape 55 , 2007, p. 109-120 .
- Hans Schlossberger : Secret Medical Councilor Prof. Dr. Richard Otto. German Medical Weekly 78 (1953).
- 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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 68/271; 67/73
- ↑ Dissertation: About Scleroderma .
- ↑ FR 73 (GenWiki)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Otto, Richard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Otto, Richard Ernst Wilhelm (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medical officer and bacteriologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1872 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zimmerhausen , Regenwalde district |
DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1952 |
Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |