Theodor Benzinger
Theodor Hannes Benzinger (born August 23, 1905 in Stuttgart , † October 26, 1999 in Bethesda ) was a German-American physiologist .
Life
Benzinger graduated after completing his schooling at the universities of Tübingen , Munich and Berlin , a study of the medicine and the natural sciences. Benzinger completed his studies with a doctorate as Dr. phil. et med.
Benzinger, from 1933 a member of the NSDAP and SA , worked from 1934 at the Physiological Institute of the University of Göttingen under Hermann Rein . His habilitation took place in 1938 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Göttingen with the text "Investigations into breathing and gas metabolism, especially in the case of lack of oxygen and negative pressure, with continuously direct recording methods". During the Second World War , Benzinger headed the Aviation Medical Institute of the Rechlin Test Center from 1940, which was subordinate to the Reich Aviation Ministry . His work and research focus were respiratory physiology, altitude adjustment, heat regulation and desalination research. Benzinger took part in the conference on medical questions in distress at sea and winter death on February 26 and 27, 1942 in Nuremberg , where a lecture was also given on the "attempts at hypothermia" in the Dachau concentration camp . He was a corresponding member of the German Academy for Aviation Research and published several scientific articles in the writings of the German Academy of Aviation Research . Benziger was promoted to senior medical officer.
After the end of the war, Benzinger worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg , where he was arrested in September 1946 and released from Allied internment a few months later. As part of Operation Paperclip , Benzinger was taken to the United States in 1947 to Randolph Air Force Base . Benzinger became director at the Bioenergetic Institute of the Naval Medical Research Institute (NMRI) in Bethesda and held this position until 1970. He then worked for four years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg . Benzinger had patents on various inventions, the most important of which was the development of the ear thermometer in 1964. Benzinger, who became an American citizen in 1955, was married with four children.
Since 1923 he was a member of the student union Akademische Gesellschaft Stuttgardia Tübingen .
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ V. Harsch: Theodor Benzinger, German pioneer in high altitude physiology research and altitude protection . In: Aviat Space Environ Med., September 2007; 78 (9), pp. 906-908, PMID 17891902 .
- ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 38
- ↑ Theodor H. BENZINGER, INVENTOR OF THE EAR THERMOMETER, DIES AT 94 . ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The New York Times , October 29, 1999 issue, 0371
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benzinger, Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Benzinger, Theodor Hannes (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 1999 |
| Place of death | Bethesda |