Rudolf Neubert

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Rudolf Neubert (born January 31, 1898 in Dresden ; † May 13, 1992 ibid) was a German hygienist and university professor.

Life

From 1916 to 1918 he did his military service as a soldier at Verdun during the First World War . After the end of the war, he completed a medical degree at the universities of Jena, Freiburg and Munich and received his doctorate in 1923. med.

After working at the Tbc-Heilstätte Hohwald , he moved to Dresden and became a research assistant at the German Hygiene Museum . Although he joined the NSDAP in May 1933 , he lost his job at the German Hygiene Museum that same year.

From 1933 to 1939 Neubert worked as a resident doctor in Dresden-Hellerau. During the Second World War he was a military doctor in the Wehrmacht until 1945 , most recently with the rank of senior staff doctor .

After the end of the war he was deputy department head for health care in Dresden in 1945/46 and returned to the Hygiene Museum as scientific director in 1946, but was dismissed the following year because of his membership in the NSDAP. From 1948 to 1952 he was a lecturer in anatomy at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts .

From 1952 until his retirement in 1963, Neubert held the chair for social hygiene and director of the Institute for Social Hygiene at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , the latter function he also held part-time or temporarily at the Medical Academy in Erfurt . From 1956 to 1965 he was in charge of the International Union for School and University Hygiene and Medicine.

Neubert was the author of numerous popular works on education and hygiene and a member of the presidium of the German Red Cross of the GDR .

His estate is in the main state archive in Dresden.

Honors

Works (selection)

Scientific

  • Textbook for health workers , Berlin 1953
  • Outline of social hygiene , Jena 1958

Popular science

  • The new marriage book (first edition 1957; 21st edition 1972)
  • The gender issue
  • Questions and answers on the "New Marriage Book" and the "Gender Question"
  • Health and mental work
  • Doctors Give Advice , Part 1: The Secret of Happy People
  • The toddler. On education in the family , Berlin: Volk und Wissen 1966

memories

  • My doctor's life (autobiography; first edition 1974)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Udo Schagen, Sabine Schleiermacher: 100 years of history of social hygiene, social medicine and public health in Germany. Documentation by the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP) , CD-Rom, Berlin 2005
  2. ^ New Germany , 25./26. February 1978, p. 5