Walther Frieboes

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Walther Martin Oswald Frieboes , also Walter Friboes (* December 22, 1880 in Gotha ; † May 2, 1945 in Berlin ) was a leading German dermatologist at the time of National Socialism and professor at the Universities of Rostock and Berlin .

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Frieboes, son of a bank director, finished his school career in 1901 with the Abitur . He then began studying medicine at the University of Rostock and continued this at the Universities of Würzburg and Berlin . In the summer semester of 1904 Frieboes returned to Rostock and completed his studies in 1906 with the state examination. In 1907, also in Rostock, he became Dr. med. PhD . The topic of the dissertation was: Contributions to the knowledge of jute . This was followed by a one-year general course in history, among other things . Then Frieboes worked at skin clinics in Berlin, Rostock and Bonn until 1912, with a contribution to the knowledge of the clinic and histopathology of benign Hautepitheliome habilitated . His daughter is Ulla Galm .

In 1913 Frieboes accepted a call to the University of Rostock, where he represented the sick director of the University Dermatology Clinic Maximilian Wolters . In October 1914 Frieboes became director of the dermatological clinic and a. o. Professor. During the First World War Frieboes worked as a military doctor. In 1919 Frieboes became a full professor at the University of Rostock. Due to his services to the dermatology clinic, including the expansion of bed capacities, Frieboes became rector of the university in 1927. In October 1932, Frieboes moved to Berlin as a professor at the Charité , where he was again a university professor and director of the dermatology clinic there. Frieboes held these functions until his death in early May 1945. Frieboes was also able to expand the dermatology clinic and promote research at the University Dermatology Clinic in Berlin, despite the poor structural condition and lack of financial means. Frieboes was a member of the Leopoldina .

From 1933 Frieboes was a member of the Nazi teachers' association . On the instructions of Adolf Hitler , Frieboes was a member of the Scientific Senate of Army Health Services during the Second World War . He co-edited the specialist journal Archive for Dermatology and Syphilis . Frieboes was the author of textbooks and specialist books in the fields of dermatology and venereology . It is not certain whether he suicided himself with cyanide during the Battle of Berlin or died as a member of the Volkssturm in combat. Frieboes was first buried in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf , where his gravestone is still located. Later she was reburied to Oberammergau .

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  1. ↑ Registration (1) by Walther Frieboes in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Registration (2) by Walther Frieboes in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ a b Volker Klimpel: Doctors Death: Unnatural and violent death in nine chapters and a biographical appendix. Würzburg 2005, p. 115f.
  4. ↑ a b Ralf-Michael Frieboes: Walter Frieboes - 100 Years of the University Dermatology Clinic and Polyclinic Rostock on www-duk.med.uni-rostock.de
  5. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 167
  6. ↑ A. Scholz, K. Harnack: Dermatology in Art and History - Graves of well-known dermatologists . In: Der Hautarzt , Volume 52, Number 5, 2001, pp. 451-456
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SURNAME Frieboes, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friboes, Walter; Friboes, Walther Martin Oswald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1945
Place of death Berlin