Richard Werner

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Richard Werner (born July 22, 1875 in Freiwaldau , † February 8, 1945 in Terezín ) was an Austro-Czech university professor specializing in surgery , radiology and oncology . Werner was a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Richard Werner, son of a lawyer and businessman, attended high school in Weidenau . He put the Abitur down, studied at the Vienna University of Medicine and was there in July 1899. Dr. med. PhD . Then he did his military service in the Brno garrison hospital until 1901 . Werner then worked at the Vienna General Hospital with a focus on dermatology and gynecology . A short time later he became an assistant doctor in the surgical department under Vincenz Czerny at the University Clinic in Heidelberg . From 1902 published in relevant medical journals with a focus on radiation therapy and cancer research. He completed his habilitation in 1906 with the text: Experimental studies on the biological effects of radium rays at the University of Heidelberg . Around this time he moved with Czerny to the Institute for Experimental Cancer Research in Heidelberg, where from 1910 he worked as a senior physician at the Samariterhaus, a sanatorium and nursing home for people with cancer. From 1912 he was an associate professor with a research focus on radiation therapy and played a key role in the development of the "radiation concentrator".

During the First World War he did military service at the General Inspectorate of the Austrian Red Cross . He was the chief surgeon in Moravian-Ostrava and Przemyśl and a consulting surgeon in an army in Lithuania. Among other things, Werner performed radiation treatments on patients in the Mährisch-Ostrau military reserve hospital. He has received several awards for his commitment, including the Officer's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order .

After Czerny's death, Werner became his successor and from 1916 headed the Institute for Experimental Cancer Research and the Samaritan House as director . There, his research and treatment focus, which was highly regarded in the medical community, was radiation therapy for malignant tumors . Werner became president of the German X-ray Society and Baden X-ray Association, presided over the 18th X-ray Congress in Wiesbaden in 1927 and was chairman of the central committee for research into cancer in Germany . Werner was the author of several textbooks on radiation therapy.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis , he was on leave in the spring of 1933 by his actions and resigned as medical director in March 1934th Werner emigrated to Brno and in 1934 became director of the "House of Consolation", the local institute for cancer research. After the Wehrmacht invaded what was known as the rest of the Czech Republic , Werner had to leave this post in 1939. Because of his Jewish origins, he was deported from Brno to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where he arrived on January 28, 1942. His sister was also deported. Werner was considered a so-called prominent prisoner in Theresienstadt. He died there on February 8, 1945 of a heart condition.

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  1. ↑ a b c d E. Wondrák (1995): Prof. Dr. Richard Werner - neprávem téměř zapomenutý rodák z Jeseníku ("Professor Richard Werner - An unjustly almost forgotten compatriot from the Jesenik region") , published in volume 69 of the journal Severní Morava ("North Moravia"), p. 67-69
  2. ↑ a b c d e short biography, writings and picture by Richard Werner
  3. ^ A b Richard Werner - Exhibition Jews at the University of Heidelberg
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Uwe Eckart: "100 Years of Organized Cancer Research", Georg Thieme-Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-13-105661-4 , pp. 17f., 51, 152
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Czech medical professor and victim of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiwaldau
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1945
Place of death Terezín