Richard Seefelder

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Richard Seefelder (born October 17, 1875 in Neßlbach , Lower Bavaria , † October 12, 1949 in Innsbruck ) was a German ophthalmologist and university professor in Leipzig and Innsbruck.

Life

Seefelder studied medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen . In 1895 he was in the Corps Bavaria Erlangen recipiert . When he was inactive , he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1898 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He completed his habilitation in ophthalmology in 1908 and became a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig . In 1914 he became an associate professor there . In 1919 he was appointed to the chair at the University of Innsbruck . the Corps Athesia awarded him the ribbon in 1923. In 1923/24 he was dean of the medical faculty and in 1929/30 rector of the University of Innsbruck.

Seefelder, who had previously been a member of the Greater German People's Party , joined the NSDAP and the SS in 1933 . Due to the prohibition of the NSDAP during the time of Austrofascism , in which Seefelder was persecuted by the regime as an "illegal National Socialist", the official entry was only recorded in March 1938. Seefelder was appointed SS leader in September of the same year . In 1939 he was appointed SS-Untersturmführer . Seefelder was also a member of the NSDÄB and in the Second World War a senior staff doctor in the Wehrmacht and, from January 1943, a senior physician . In 1945 Seefelder was retired at the age of 70. In 1947 he made an application for “forbearance of the atonement” under the Prohibition Act with the note “The application goes to the ÖVP account”. In the same year he was pardoned.

memory

In 1955, Seefeldergasse was named after him in the Donaustadt , Vienna's 22nd district.

Publications

  • Atlas on the history of the development of the human eye , Leipzig 1911
  • Contributions to the development of the human eye with special consideration of the occlusion of the fetal cleft eye , 1913
  • The congenital anomalies and malformations of the eye: critical literature review covering the period from 1913–1925 , 1925
  • The Child's Eye , 1927

literature

  • German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 9, 1998, p. 257
  • Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar 1931, Col. 2759
  • Franz Huter (Ed.): One Hundred Years of Innsbruck Medical Faculty 1869 to 1969 , Part 2: History of the chairs, institutes and clinics . Innsbruck 1969
  • Franz Daxecker : 125 years of the University Eye Clinic in Innsbruck 1869–1974 . Innsbruck 1994
  • Franz Daxecker: Richard Seefelder. Head of the University Clinic for Ophthalmology in Innsbruck from 1919 to 1945 . In: Klin Mbl Augenheilk 224, 2007, pp. 952-953

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 20/313; 72/195
  2. ↑ Dissertation: A Contribution to the Clinical Evidence of the Thymus Gland .
  3. ↑ a b c Street names in Vienna since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 122ff, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
personal data
SURNAME Seefelder, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Neßlbach , Lower Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1949
Place of death innsbruck