Rupprecht Matthaei

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Rupprecht Matthaei (born February 22, 1895 in Kiel , † January 6, 1976 in Erlangen ) was a German physiologist and university professor .

Academic career

The son of the art historian Adelbert Matthaei studied medicine in Gdansk, Königsberg, Bonn and Munich from 1913 to 1918. In 1919 he received his doctorate in Bonn. From 1922 to 1929 he worked as an assistant at the Physiological Institute at the University of Bonn . In 1930 he was appointed extraordinary professor in Tübingen. From 1935 to 1945 Matthaei was Professor and Director of the Physiological Institute at the University of Erlangen , which he modernized and expanded in the following years. He dealt with Goethe's color theory .

Political activity

Like his father, Matthaei was a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP) from 1919 to 1929 . In 1932 he joined the NSDAP . In November 1932 he publicly called for the election of Hitler. From 1933 to 1935 he was a representative of the NSDAP on the Tübingen municipal council. In 1934/35, Matthaei was the NSDAP's shop steward at the Medical Faculty of Tübingen and head of the teaching staff at the University of Tübingen.

After the Second World War

In 1945 Matthaei was fired because of his political activities. In 1946, he was classified as a "fellow traveler" in the court proceedings . After a long period of teaching at the Nuremberg Adult Education Center, he was reassigned the license to teach in 1951 and was appointed an extraordinary professor. From 1956 Matthaei was again active as a full professor of physiology at the University of Erlangen. In 1961 he retired.

literature

  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 114-115.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 114-115.
  2. ^ Heinrich Matthaei:  Matthaei, Rupprecht. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 391 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Matthaei, Rupprecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1976
Place of death gain