Theodor Hansen (medical doctor)

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Christopher Heinrich Theodor Hansen (born September 8, 1867 in Lunden ; † October 30, 1938 in Lübeck ) was a German surgeon and museum curator .

Life

dissertation

Theodor Hansen was a son of the eponymous pastor Theodor Hansen (1824–1903). He attended school in Lunden and Leezen and the high school in Rendsburg . From 1889 he studied human medicine at the universities of Kiel, Munich, Freiburg and again Kiel, where he passed the clinical state examination in 1894. He then did his service as a one-year volunteer with the 1st Sailor Division in Kiel; then he joined the Imperial Navy as a doctor in 1895 . From 1895 to 1897 he was an assistant doctor at SMS Kaiser , the flagship of the East Asia Squadron . In 1898 he was seconded to the surgical department of the Deaconess Hospital in Gdansk for the purpose of obtaining his doctorate . His doctorate as Dr. med. took place in 1899 at the Royal University of Greifswald . At that time he was a senior marine physician.

SMS sea eagle

In the same year he was transferred to the SMS Seeadler as a ship's doctor . Here he served until 1901 under the Korvettenkapitän and later Vice Admiral Wilhelm Schack (1860-1920), first in the island world of Oceania , especially German Samoa , then in the East Asian squadron in the Boxer Rebellion . In 1900 he was promoted to naval medical officer . In the same year he met the geographer Georg Wegener during an audience with the sea ​​eagle crew at Mataafa Josefo in Samoa .

In 1906 Hansen worked at the newly built naval hospital in Kiel-Wik and in 1908 became a naval chief medical officer. In the hospital he specialized in the surgical treatment of hernias .

In 1909 he was granted his departure. In 1910 he settled in Lübeck as a specialist in surgery. It was reactivated at the beginning of the First World War in 1914. Until December 1914 he worked again in the Kiel hospital, then he took over the management of the field hospitals 1 & 2 of the Marine Corps Flanders as chief physician . In 1916 he was promoted to naval chief physician general (equivalent to a frigate captain ) and was transferred to the Balkan Peninsula , where he was in charge of the 11th Army Hospital 54 in Üsküp (today Skopje ). In 1918 he was corps physician for General Command 53 . He used his free time on ethnological excursions and, as in the South Seas and China, took numerous photos in Macedonia, many of which were published.

After demobilization , he returned to Lübeck and practiced as a specialist in surgery and orthopedics at Ratzeburger Allee 2a. Before 1933 he received the rank of a marine general physician. D. (corresponds to the sea captain ). From 1926 he worked as a full-time managing doctor of the Medical Association of Lübeck , the oldest professional medical association in Germany. The association was also the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Lübeck. Hansen was the last full-time managing director of the association before it was dissolved during the Nazi era in the course of the Gleichschaltung in 1936. In 1945 the association was re-established, initially as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Medical Association .

As the successor to Richard Karutz of the same age , who was also a full-time doctor, he was in charge of the ethnological collection of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck in the Museum am Dom from 1923 onwards . Hansen also provided Karutz with photos from Macedonia for his publication Atlas of Ethnology: The Peoples of Europe (1926).

During his term of office, Julius Carlebach built up the Judaica collection . When the National Socialists came to power, Hansen was seen as a staunch “supporter of the new doctrine of salvation”. In November 1933 he gave a lecture on the swastika and its history at the Museum für Völkerkunde .

In 1934, the Lübeck Völkerkunde-Museum, until then, like all Lübeck museums, was funded by the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , and became state (from 1937 municipal) sponsorship. Hansen remained a conservator. When the Berlin Museum of Ethnology began to set up a Eurasia department , the establishment of which was in line with Nazi ideology, there were at least two deals between Hansen and the Berlin curator Hermann Baumann . In 1936 Hansen acquired around 80 objects from the Banat , the Sami and the Ainu, and gave a jug, a ceiling hanging ( Julkrone ) and nine Estonian silver fibulae to the Berlin Museum from the extensive Lübeck Estonia collection . At the beginning of 1938 Baumann sold another 21 Eurasian objects to Hansen.

After Hansen's death in 1938, no new curator was appointed, so Margarete Schmidt, senior secretary in the Lübeck museum administration, actually filled this post, but without an official appointment.

Hansen was married to Mary Sophie Ann Detlefsen from Flensburg since 1923 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death after entry in the funeral register, accessed on ancestry.com on July 30, 2018
  2. ↑ Biographical data up to the dissertation after the curriculum vitae in the dissertation: c: File: Hansen theodor dissertation curriculum vitae.pdf .
  3. ↑ Dissertation: A case of foreign body entrapment in the antrum pyloricum. Greifswald: Adler 1899, zugl. Greifswald, Univ., Diss., 1899 Digitized on Wikimedia Commons .
  4. ^ German military medical journal 29 (1900), p. 7
  5. ↑ Georg Wegener : The magic coat: memories of a world traveler. Leipzig: FA Brockhaus 1921, p. 362f.
  6. ^ Military weekly paper 94 (1909), p. 142
  7. ↑ Cf. the thanks in Georg Wegener: Germany in the Still Ocean. 1903, foreword ; Karl Gripp : Contributions to the geology of Macedonia. (= Treatises from the field of foreign studies 7) Hamburg: L. Friederichsen & Co. 1922; Franz Theodor Doflein : Macedonia - Experiences and observations of a natural scientist in the wake of the German army. Fischer, Jena 1921, p. VI
  8. ↑ Small telephone book for Lübeck and the surrounding area, 1928 edition
  9. ↑ Archive for Clinical Surgery 177 (1933), p. LXV; Bruns' Contributions to Clinical Surgery 169 (1939), p. 316
  10. ^ Friedrich von Rohden: The Medical Association of Lübeck: 150 Years of Medical History, 1809-1959. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1959, p. 61
  11. ↑ Heinz Schmitt: Development and changes in the objectives, the structure and the effects of the professional associations , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, p. 25 ff.
  12. ^ Friedrich von Rohden: The Medical Association of Lübeck: 150 Years of Medical History, 1809-1959. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1959, p. 65
  13. ↑ Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, p. 38 with footnote 113.
  14. ↑ Cf. Richard Karutz : The Estonian Collection of the Museum of Ethnology in Lübeck. Lübeck 1919
  15. ↑ Beatrix Hoffmann: The museum object as an object of exchange and trade: on the change in the meaning of museum objects in the context of sales from the collections of the Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin. (= Kulturwissenschaft 33) LIT Verlag, Münster 2012 ISBN 9783643113139 , p. 143


personal data
SURNAME Hansen, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hansen, Christopher Heinrich Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and museum curator
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Lunden
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1938
Place of death Lübeck