Richard Wagner (physiologist)

Richard Wagner (born October 23, 1893 in Augsburg , † December 19, 1970 in Munich ) was a German physiologist .

Life

Wagner studied medicine at the universities of Munich and Innsbruck from 1913 to 1919 . His studies were interrupted by the First World War, in which he participated as a war volunteer. In 1920 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . After several years as an assistant in Munich and Tübingen , Wagner completed his habilitation in Tübingen in 1925. From March 1929 he was associate professor of physiology in Graz , in 1931 he was appointed personal professor in Graz. In 1932 he was appointed full professor of physiology at the University of Erlangen . From 1934 to 1938 Wagner taught at the University of Breslau , where he first became prorector in 1935 and took over the office of rector in 1937/38. In 1938 he joined the NSDAP and was appointed professor at the University of Innsbruck . In 1940 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . From 1941 he worked at the University of Munich, where he became director of the Institute for Physiology.

In November 1945 Wagner was dismissed by the military government for political reasons. On April 1, 1949, he was reappointed full professor at the University of Munich. In 1948 he was made a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . From 1952 to 1956 he was its president. Since 1954 he was corr. Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 1957 Wagner became President of the German Society for Cardiovascular Research , 1958 President of the German Physiological Society and from 1959 to 1960 Chairman of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . In 1961 Wagner retired.

From 1925 onwards, Wagner carried out investigations into regulating processes in the organism . He also researched the physiology of the circulatory system and muscle coordination.

Fonts

• Regulations in the Living Organism (1950)
• Problems and examples of biological regulation (1954)

Awards

• 1959: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1962: Great Silver Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1963: Large Federal Cross of Merit

literature

• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 179-180.
• Lexicon of natural scientists . Directmedia, Berlin 2004.
• Renate Wittern (ed.): The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743–1960. Part 2: Faculty of Medicine . edit by Astrid Ley, Erlangen 1999, pp. 208-209, ISBN 3-930357-30-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Wagner in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Medical University of Graz: Board members and heads of the Institute for Physiology can be viewed here ( Memento from April 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 650.
3. ^ Member entry by Richard Wagner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 6, 2016.
4. ^ Member entry by Richard Wagner (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 6, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich Mitteis	President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences from 1952 to 1956	Friedrich Baethgen