Walther Uffenorde

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Walther Uffenorde (born January 1, 1879 in Diepholz ; † February 21, 1947 in Marburg ) was a German ENT doctor and professor at the University of Marburg .

Life

Walther Uffenorde was a son of the cigar manufacturer August Albrecht Christian Uffenorde and his second wife Regine, nee. Harriehausen. After the early death of his parents (died 1879 or 1882), he grew up with an uncle, the landowner Wilhelm Harriehausen in Geismar near Göttingen. From 1889 to 1898 he attended the humanistic grammar school in Göttingen. In 1898/99 he first studied law for two semesters in Leipzig , later aiming to switch to a forestry career. This path was denied to him because of an ear problem. Instead, Uffenorde took part in the summer semester of 1899 in Göttingenof the study of medicine. In the summer of 1900 he passed the pre-medical examination in Leipzig, and in 1903 in Göttingen, where he received his Dr. med. received his doctorate, the state examination.

After working as an assistant at the Polyclinic for Ear and Nose Diseases, he went to Vienna, Freiburg a. Br., Halle (Saale) and Berlin. In 1907 he completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen with a thesis on the ethmoid bone . Uffenorde was a private lecturer and senior physician in Göttingen until 1921 and was appointed adjunct professor in 1912 . From 1914 to 1916 he was the head of the ENT clinic at the University of Göttingen and was an advisory specialist at the XI. Army Corps. In 1916/17 he was in a field hospital in France and Russia.

In 1921 Uffenorde accepted a position as associate professor in Bonn, where he was also entrusted with the provisional management of the University Ear Clinic in 1921/22. On May 6, 1922, he was appointed full professor at the University of Marburg and director of the local polyclinic for ear, nose and throat diseases. He was dean in 1927/28 and vice dean of the medical faculty in 1944. During his time in 1927 a modern new building was built for the Marburg ENT clinic. Uffenorde turned down a call to his former place of work in Göttingen in 1938. In 1945 he retired.

In 1932 Walther Uffenorde was accepted into the Leopoldina , and in 1936/37 he was chairman of the Society of German ENT Doctors . His research mainly concerned the labyrinth and the paranasal sinuses . He was the editor of the journal Ear, Nose and Throat Doctor .

From 1933 Uffenorde was a member of the NSDAP and in November 1933 he signed the confession of the German professors to Adolf Hitler .

Fonts

  • Contributions to the histology of the hyperplatic pharyngeal tonsil with special consideration of tuberculosis and the indication for surgical removal (dissertation, Leipzig 1903)
  • Display and operations on the throat, nose and ear (1942)
  • Sepsis after angina , 4th edition 1951

literature

  • Art. In: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie 10: Thies - Zykan, p. 151
  • Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 634
  • Herbert Major: Professor Dr. med. Walther Uffenorde (1879-1947) . In: Heimatblätter des Landkreis Diepholz 12 (1987), pp. 76–79

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5774, p. 265 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Member entry of Walther Uffenorde at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Uffenorde, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uffenorde, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ENT doctor
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Diepholz
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1947
Place of death Marburg