Rudolf Thauer the Elder

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Rudolf Thauer

Rudolf Thauer (born September 24, 1906 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 20, 1986 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German physiologist and university lecturer in Frankfurt am Main, Danzig and Giessen.

Life

After graduating from high school, Thauer studied medicine at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1926 he joined the Strasbourg Corps Palaio-Alsatia . He was assistant to Albert Fraenkel . In 1932 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . In 1935 he completed his habilitation in Frankfurt.

At the Institute for Animal Physiology at the University of Frankfurt, Thauer worked as a private lecturer from 1936 and as full professor from 1939 , where he also carried out animal experiments. In addition, he temporarily headed the Neurological Institute in Frankfurt from 1941 to 1943. Thauer, who in 1942 partly carried out the DFG project Basics and Conditions of Heat Regulation with Karl Wezler , took part in the conference on medical questions in distress and winter death on October 26th and 27th, 1942, where also on the "hypothermia experiments" in the Dachau concentration camp was reported.

In 1943, Thauer was appointed director of the Physiological Institute at the Technical University of Danzig . He received a professorship for physiology there in 1944 and devoted himself to aviation medicine . During the advance of the Red Army , Thauer withdrew to Wetter (Hesse) .

After the Second World War , Thauer was a lecturer at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in 1946/1947 . In January 1947, Thauer was denazified as a fellow traveler after a court hearing . Thauer came to the USA at the end of October 1947 as part of Operation Paperclip . Thauer worked there at the Department of the Navy and Bureau of Aeronautics .

From 1951, Thauer was Professor of Physiology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and at the same time director of the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim . In 1974 he retired .

Memberships in Nazi organizations

Honors

Honorary positions

  • 1953–1976: Permanent managing director of the German Society for Circulatory Research

Fonts

Thauer published about 150 articles on the physiology of the blood circulation , metabolism , the central nervous system and heat regulation , in particular on temperature regulation after surgical interventions on the nervous system of homoiothermal mammals.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 31/165.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The effect of compressed kidney juices and extracts on the blood pressure of test animals .
  3. ^ Rudolf Thauer Poster Prize ( Memento from February 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 621
  5. ↑ a b c Gerald Kreft: "... now free of Jews ..." The Neurological Institute 1933 to 1945 . In: Jörn Kobes, Jan-Otmar Hesse: Frankfurt scientists between 1933 and 1945. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2008, p. 144
  6. ↑ Gerald Kreft: "... now free of Jews ..." The Neurological Institute 1933 to 1945 . In: Jörn Kobes, Jan-Otmar Hesse: Frankfurt scientists between 1933 and 1945. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2008, p. 147
personal data
SURNAME Thauer, Rudolf the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thauer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1986
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau