Walther Löhlein

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Walther Löhlein (born January 5, 1882 in Berlin , † September 14, 1954 in Essen ) was a German ophthalmologist and university professor .

Life

Walther Löhlein was born in January 1882 as the son of the gynecologist Hermann Löhlein and his wife Emma. Kossmann born in Berlin. The family moved to Gießen in 1888 because the father had taken the chair at the Hessian Ludwig University .

After graduating from the Landgraf-Ludwigs-Gymnasium , Löhlein studied medicine from 1900 to 1904 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and the Hessische Ludwigs-Universität, which made him a Dr. med. PhD. Since 1900 he was a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity and the Alemannia Münster fraternity . At the end of 1907 he came to the eye clinic of the Royal University of Greifswald as an assistant doctor . In 1910 he qualified as a professor in Greifswald for ophthalmology. In 1914 he became an associate professor . During the First World War , Löhlein served as a war volunteer in various hospitals. From September 1914 to August 1918 he worked as a doctor on the Western Front . In 1918 he was transferred to the University of Dorpat as head of the eye clinic , but returned to Greifswald that same year. When his teacher Paul Römer was called to Bonn in 1921, Löhlein became a professor in Greifswald by way of a house appointment . He followed the call of the University of Jena in 1924 and became director of the university eye clinic. For the academic year 1931/32 he was elected rector of the University of Jena.

In 1932 he followed a call to succeed Theodor Axenfeld at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . On April 12, 1933, he became dean of the Medical Faculty in Freiburg because the Jew Siegfried Thannhauser was no longer eligible for this office. As the successor to Emil Krückmann , Löhlein changed to a chair for ophthalmology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in 1934 . In the same year he took over the chairmanship of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG). In 1936 he won the " quarter Jew " Hans Karl Müller as senior physician for his clinic. Löhlein was considered the most influential ophthalmologist in the time of National Socialism . From 1934 to 1948 he was chairman of the DOG, an ophthalmologist for Adolf Hitler and a consultant for ophthalmology at the army medical inspector . In 1944 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Plenipotentiary for Health Care Karl Brandt . Löhlein was a member of the German People's Party from 1919 to 1922 . He was a supporting member of the SS , but did not join the NSDAP until 1940.

He had to give up his post as head of the clinic in December 1945, but was reinstated on January 29, 1946 as director of the University Clinic for Eye Diseases, which was now in the Soviet zone of occupation . In 1949 he finally resigned from the management. He then worked in a practice in West Berlin and was honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin . 1953 emeritus , he moved with his children in North Rhine-Westphalia. From July 1949 to June 1950 he was a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin .

He was married and had four children.

Walther Löhlein died in Essen in 1954 at the age of 72 and was buried in the Dahlem Forest Cemetery in Berlin. The grave has not been preserved.

Honors

  • Honorary member of the Egyptian Ophthalmological Society (1936)
  • Honorary doctorate from Sofia University (1937)
  • Honorary member of the German Ophthalmological Society (1948)

Publications

  • The last semester at the German University of Dorpat. Jena 1919.
  • The development of sight. Jena 1931
  • Time issues of ophthalmology. Stuttgart 1938.
  • Picture sample board for children (for the distance). Berlin, 4th edition 1948 (1st edition 1920).

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 300.
  2. ↑ HKM Munich
  3. ^ Members of the previous academies. Walther Löhlein. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed April 30, 2015 .
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 584.
personal data
SURNAME Löhlein, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löhlein, Bruno Robert Walther (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1954
Place of death eat