Rudolf Grashey

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Rudolf Grashey (born February 24, 1876 in Deggendorf ; † September 24, 1950 in Bad Tölz ) was a German doctor and radiologist .

Life

Monument at the Deggendorf city park

Grashey was the son of Munich psychiatry professor Hubert von Grashey (1839-1914) and Anna Gudden (daughter of the psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden , who perished with King Ludwig II in Lake Starnberg ). After graduation (1894) on Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich he studied in Munich medicine and received his doctorate in 1900 there about "burns". In 1907 he became a lecturer in surgery . As early as 1905 he published an atlas of typical x-ray images of normal people , which was followed in 1908 by an atlas of surgical-pathological x-ray images .

In 1905 Grashey was one of the initiators of the "German X-ray Society". Later he took over the editing of the journal "Advances in the field of X-rays".

After his habilitation in 1908 on the investigation of fractures with X-rays , he was appointed associate professor in Munich in 1911. After working as a senior staff doctor and surgeon at the front in World War I , he became chief physician of the physico-medical department of the Munich-Schwabing hospital in 1920 . In 1924 the Munich University gave him a lectureship in radiology on the basis of his research . In the same year he published his work, Errors in X-ray diagnostics and radiation therapy . Four years later he received the first German chair for radiology and medical radiation therapy at the University of Cologne , where he worked in research until his institute was destroyed by a bombing in 1944. The NSDAP stepped Grashey 1937 at; he was also authorized to carry out sterilization by radiation. He was also co-editor of the Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift, which was strongly influenced by propaganda during the Nazi era .

Grashey was mainly concerned with the medical analysis of X-rays, with the difficulties in X-ray diagnostics and the possible damage caused by X-rays. After the end of the war, he was classified in category V ("exonerated") in denazification . Until 1949 Grashey worked with great commitment under difficult conditions at the Berlin Charité with Professor Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875–1951), with whom he had already worked closely in 1918/19 at the Munich Surgical Clinic.

Grashey also had a fine sense of humor, which was reflected in articles for the satirical magazines Fliegende Blätter and Meggendorfer Blätter and on the humorous page "Die Insel", which he founded, in the Munich medical magazine . Under the stage name "R. Würstl ”he published in 1922 together with the writer Julius Kreis , who is behind the pseudonym“ A. Kraut “hid the funny city guide of Munich. By awarding the Grashey Medal to distinguished radiologists, the Bavarian Roentgen Society receives the memory of Rudolf Grashey.

Grashey is one of Deggendorf's most famous sons. A memorial was erected for him in his hometown and a street was named after him. In May 2007, the monument and the naming of the street were called into question with reference to Grashey's role in the Nazi era . The city commissioned a historian to investigate and spoke out against rash decisions: NSDAP membership alone is no reason for withdrawing municipal honors. It is also unclear whether Grashey actually carried out sterilizations. A corresponding authorization would have existed for 150 doctors and clinics.

Works (selection)

  • Atlas of typical x-rays from normal people . Lehmann, Munich 1905 (9th, complete and further linked edition, edited by Rudolf Birkner. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich and others 1955). archive.org
  • Atlas of surgical-pathological x-rays . (= Lehmann's Medical Atlases ; 6). Lehmann, Munich 1908.
  • X-ray examination of war casualties (= field doctor's pocket book ; 9). Lehmann, Munich 1918.
  • Radiology (= handbook of medical experience in the world wars 1914/18 ; 9). Barth, Leipzig 1922.
  • Errors in X-ray diagnostics and radiation therapy . Thieme, Leipzig 1924.

literature

  • Lutz-Dieter Behrendt: A radiologist is x-rayed. About the attitude of Prof. Dr. Rudolf Grasheys at the time of National Socialism . In: Deggendorfer Geschichtsblätter , 30, 2008, pp. 257-318; geschichtverein-deggendorf.de (PDF).
  • Lutz Dieter Behrendt; Daniel Schäfer: A medical “follower”? Rudolf Grashey and radiology in the “Third Reich” . In: Dominik Gross, Axel Karenberg, Stephanie Kaiser, Wolfgang Antweiler (eds.): Medical history in spotlights. Contributions of the "Rheinischer Kreis der Medizinhistoriker" (= writings of the Rheinischer Kreis der Medizinhistoriker; 2). Kassel Univ. Press, Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3-86219-000-3 , pp. 227-242.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1893/94.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 196.
  3. ↑ Taxi Courier June 2016, p. 24 (PDF) accessed on December 29, 2016.
  4. ↑ Stefan Fößel: A radiologist is screened. Deggendorf researches the vita of Rudolf Grashey. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 2, 2007, p. 45.
personal data
SURNAME Grashey, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radiologist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Deggendorf
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1950
Place of death Bad Tölz