Rudolf Naujoks

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Rudolf Karl Naujoks (born July 24, 1919 in Königsberg (today: Kaliningrad ), † March 27, 2004 in Würzburg ) was a German dentist and university professor.

life and work

His parents were the gardener Karl Naujoks and his wife Berta, b. Klotzki. On March 2, 1938, Rudolf Naujoks completed his school years with the secondary school at the castle in Königsberg, then he was satisfied with his labor service and military service. Except for one interruption he belonged to the field army and was "involved in campaigns in the west, east and in Italy." In the winter semester 1941/42 he studied dentistry at the Albertus University in Königsberg and did not start until the winter semester 1945/46 due to the war continued his studies at Hamburg University after Bargteheide (Holstein) had become his new residence. He lived here with his wife (Christa, née Heinrich), who was married in 1944, and his two children. Naujoks was approved in Hamburg in 1948, worked as an assistant to Karl Schuchardt and received his doctorate there in the same year as a Dr. med. dent. with a work "On teeth and tonsils in focal infection (a comparison)".

On July 11, 1955, he completed his habilitation with a thesis on "Histotopic examinations of the dental organ." In 1958 he became senior physician and from 1959 headed the department for comprehensive dentistry . In 1961 he was appointed associate professor in Hamburg. From March 1, 1962, he worked for three months as a visiting professor at Harvard University in Boston (USA) in research. On April 17, 1963, he took over the chair of dentistry at the University of Würzburg, which in 1912 court dentist Andreas Michel first moved into. Naujoks was appointed director of the dental, oral and maxillofacial clinic there. In 1964 he set up the first chair for experimental dentistry, which was headed by his Hamburg colleague Fritz Bramstedt. On the initiative of Naujoks, Adolf Kröncke and Hans Rudolf Mühlemann , the Continental European Division of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) was founded in Strasbourg in the same year , and Naujoks succeeded Mühlemann as President in 1965. In 1971 he played a leading role in setting up a collaborative research center on oral biology at the University of Würzburg.

His main focus in research and science policy was in the field of caries research, where he - already in Hamburg - with Günther Ahrens, Fritz Bramstedt and Adolf Kröncke mainly carried out biochemical saliva research. He also worked on the epidemiology and prophylaxis of oral diseases. In 1965 he started a review of the protective effect of fluorine toothpastes. With the support of the Wybert company , Lörrach , he carried out "Caries epidemiological studies on 15 to 18 year old high school students in the Würzburg area" in 1967. Two years later he reported on tests in which he had examined their fluoride-containing toothpaste in collaboration with the Blendax plants , Mainz, which he identified as "Blendax Fluor Super" in his report. The name of the tester was used to advertise the “clinically tested” toothpaste, which provoked prophecies of doom among colleagues. Until then, Blendax had only produced fluoride-free toothpaste, based on recipes from Hertha Hafer since the 1950s .

Even after his retirement in 1987, Naujoks coordinated a study on the state of oral health and behavior in Germany until 1991.

It should be noted that a total of nine presidents of the DGZMK experienced the “Third Reich” as adults. These nine people led the German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine (DGZMK) and its predecessor organization from 1906 to the beginning of the 1980s. Only one of these nine presidents - Rudolf Naujoks - had not joined the NSDAP .

Features and awards

  • 1959–1960 Vice President of the European Working Group on Fluorine Research and Caries Prevention (ORCA)
  • 1965 President of the Continental European Division of the IADR (as successor to H.Mühlemann)
  • 1965/1966 Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg
  • 1966–1969 member of the university's inner senate
  • 1966 Co-President of ORCA
  • 1967 Board member of the DGZMK (like Hans Joachim Schmidt )
  • 1967–1968 President of ORCA
  • 1967–1969 First Chairman of the Association of University Lecturers for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine
  • 1972–1977 President of the DGZMK
  • 1978 badge of honor of the DGZMK
  • 1986 honorary member of the DGZMK

Publications (selection)

  • 1953 (with R. Vonderlinn): Biochemical saliva studies. ZR 62: No. 16 (Aug 1953) 438
  • 1955 (with F. Bramstedt and A. Kröncke): Biochemical studies on the effect of fluorine in the saliva of people susceptible to and resistant to caries. DZZ 10: No. 5 (1955) 311
  • 1956 (with F. Bramstedt and A. Kröncke): About the activation of carbohydrate breakdown in saliva through low fluorine concentrations. Natural science 43: 109-110
  • 1968 Caries prophylaxis with fluoride. DZZ 23: 135-141
  • 1980 (with Jutta Patz): Morbidity and care of the teeth in the population of the Federal Republic of Germany. DZZ 35: 259-264
  • 1985 (with G. Mantelbrand): Oral health in the Federal Republic. ZM 75: 417-419

swell

  • Peter Riethe: On the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. R. Naujoks. Oral prophylaxis 6 (1984) 96
  • Prof. Dr. Naujoks new President of the German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine. Dental Message. 62: No. 21 (1972) 1057
  • B. Klaiber: Prof. Rudolf Naujoks has died. Dental Message. 94: No. 9 (2004) 1207
  • 90 years of dental clinic, key handover and pure advanced training. Dental Message. 92: No. 16 (2002) 42

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ R. Naujoks: About teeth and tonsils in focal infection (a comparison). Inaugural dissertation, University of Hamburg, October 5, 1948
  2. ↑ Silke K. Riemer: Karl Schuchardt - Life and Work. Dissertation, Hamburg 2001, pp. 122–123
  3. ^ Official Register of Harvard University. Vol. LIX: No. 2 (1962) 255
  4. ↑ Fluoride against tooth decay. Dental Message. 55 (1965) 1019
  5. ↑ Roman sketches. A report on the CED-IADR meeting on October 5th and 6th, 1968 in Rome. DZZ 24 (1969) 75
  6. ^ Prophylaxis. ZM 55 (1965) 1169
  7. ^ J. Patz, H. Schedl, R. Naujoks: Caries epidemiological studies on 15 to 18 year old high school students in the Würzburg area. DZZ 22: No. 7 (1967) 890
  8. ↑ J. Patz, R. Naujoks: Clinical review of a fluoride-containing toothpaste in adults. (Results after two years of unsupervised use). DZZ 24 (1969) 614
  9. ^ MO Bruker, R. Ziegelbecker: Caution fluorine. emu-Verlag, Lahnstein, 2005; P. 83
  10. ↑ Welm: Briefly illuminated. Better than drilling? DDZ 22 (1968) 322-323
  11. ↑ Statement by Prof. Dr. Roland Frankenberger, President of the DGZMK, on ​​the occasion of the PK “Dentistry and Dentists under National Socialism” , DGZMK, November 28, 2019. Accessed on May 2, 2020.
  12. ↑ Würzburg. ZWR 66 (1965) 750
  13. ^ DY Burrill et al .: The first fifty-year history of the International Association for Dental Research. IADR, University of Chicago Printing Dep. 1973; P. 220
personal data
SURNAME Naujoks, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Naujoks, Rudolf Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dentist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (today: Kaliningrad )
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2004
Place of death Wurzburg