Theodor Brugsch

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Karl Louis Theodor Brugsch (born October 11, 1878 in Graz , † July 11, 1963 in East Berlin ) was a German internist and politician.

Life

Theodor Brugsch at the opening of the Berlin University on January 29, 1946. From left: Josef Naas from DVV, Theodor Brugsch, professor and head of department for higher education at DVV , Paul Wandel as president of DVV at the microphone, right Tjulpanov and Solotuchin as representatives of SMAD . Brugsch executes the investiture of the new rector Johannes Stroux .

Theodor Brugsch was the son of the Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch . After attending the Köllnisches Gymnasium from 1898 to 1902, he studied medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1903 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. From 1903 to 1905 he worked at the (old) Altona Hospital and then from 1906 to 1909 at the Berlin Charité . There he completed his habilitation in 1909. Towards the end of the First World War he was a medical officer in a hospital in Romania , and after the First World War he was back at the Charité. From 1927 to 1935 he was a full professor at the Medical University Clinic in Halle . In 1932 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

In 1931, during the time of the Dean of Brugsch, riot-like protests broke out at the University of Halle by National Socialist students who were directed against the appointment of the theologian Günther Dehn , who was accused of being a pacifist. After a police operation against these students, Brugsch stood up in the Senate for further disciplinary measures against these students. As a result, his wife's Jewish ancestry was publicly used against him and a campaign against him as a university teacher ensued. When in 1935 a congress he had organized had to be canceled at short notice due to external pressure, he decided to apply to the ministry for early retirement, which he was granted.

Because of his Jewish wife, Brugsch was relieved of his duties as a university lecturer under the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 . Although he joined various Nazi organizations such as the National Socialist Motor Vehicle Corps and the National Socialist People's Welfare and became a supporting member of the SS , he received no new appointment to a chair. Brugsch moved to Berlin and practiced there in a private practice and in a private clinic. In 1936 he met a Swiss woman there, with whom he lived from 1938. It was not until 1944 that he divorced his first wife, with whom he had three sons, after he had managed to buy her an "Aryan passport", but continued to look after her so that she survived the end of the war safely. At the end of 1944 he married his second wife, with whom he had three daughters.

Brugsch himself expressed himself as follows about his attitude towards National Socialism: “I had become overly sensitive to the conditions in Halle at the time after I had the impression that not only was an entire city bowing its neck, but also the professors willingly and without contradiction Nazism, the principles of which struck me as incomprehensible. I definitely didn't want to swim with this current, but to swim against the current as an individual - that was completely impossible for me at the time. "

From 1945 to 1957 Theodor Brugsch worked as professor for internal medicine at the East Berlin Charité . 1945 to 1946 he was also the main department head of the German Administration for Popular Education . In 1946 he was one of the founders of the Club of Cultural Workers in Berlin. In 1947 he founded the social welfare for Greater Berlin, of which he became president. From 1949 to 1954 he was a member of the People's Chamber . In 1957 he retired . Then he was vice president of the Kulturbund der DDR . He died in East Berlin at the age of 84.

Honors

Grave of Theodor Brugsch in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstädtischen and Friedrichswerder communities

Fonts

  • Doctor for five decades , Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1957.
  • Cardiology. Textbook of heart and vascular diseases; at the same time a pathology of the circulation , (5th edition), Hirzel, Leipzig 1958.
  • Internal Medicine Textbook , (14th edition), 1950.
  • Metabolic diseases . Series of publications of the journal for the entire internal medicine and its border areas 4 (1955)
  • with Alfred Schittenhelm : The nucleus metabolism and its disorders. (Gout, urate stone diathesis, etc.) , Fischer, Jena 1910.

literature

  • Short biography of Theodor Brugsch . In: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin: Yearbook of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin 1963 , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 59.
  • Wolfram Kaiser, Hans Hübner (ed.): Theodor Brugsch (1878–1963). Hallesches Brugsch Symposium 1978 . Martin Luther University Halle, Wittenberg 1979.
  • Albrecht Krebbel: The development of medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with special consideration of the work of Theodor Brugsch (1878–1963) . Diss. Univ. Hall 1984.
  • Jürgen Konert: Theodor Brugsch. Internist and politician. Verlag Hirzel, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-322-00486-4
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .
  • Short biography for:  Brugsch, Theodor . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Theodor Brugsch: To live means to experience . In: Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED , Kulturbund der DDR (Ed.): … The beginning of a new era. Memories of the beginnings of our cultural revolution 1945–1949 . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1981, p. 96-100 .

Web links

Commons : Theodor Brugsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Soren Flachowsky: The scientific organizer John Stroux at Berlin University from 1945 to 1947. In: Yearbook for University History . 7/2004. Franz Steiner Verlag, p. 203
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 78.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: The development of the caudal ligament in humans .
  4. ↑ Theodor Brugsch's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 19, 2018.
  5. ^ Jürgen Konert: Theodor Brugsch: Internist and politician. S. Hirzel Verlag, Leipzig 1988, pp. 102-122.
  6. ^ Jürgen Konert: Theodor Brugsch: Internist and politician. S. Hirzel Verlag, Leipzig 1988, p. 121.
  7. ^ Jürgen Konert: Theodor Brugsch: Internist and politician. S. Hirzel Verlag, Leipzig 1988, pp. 124-125.
  8. ^ Theodor Brugsch: Doctor for five decades. Autobiography. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-373-00073-4 (first edition 1957)
personal data
SURNAME Brugsch, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brugsch, Karl Louis Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and politician, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1963
Place of death East Berlin