Werner Kyrieleis

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As a student at the University of Göttingen
Grave of Werner Kyrieleis in the main cemetery in Marburg (2017)

Werner Kyrieleis (born September 20, 1898 in Hameln , † January 4, 1961 in Marburg ) was a German ophthalmologist and university professor .

Life

Kyrieleis was the son of an ophthalmologist. After graduating from high school in 1916, he joined the German army as a flag squire and in the same year took part in the First World War, from 1917 as a lieutenant. Discharged from the army after the end of the war, he received several awards and completed a medical degree at the universities of Göttingen, Gießen and Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1919 he became active in the Corps Hercynia Göttingen. After completing his studies, he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He then worked as an assistant at the University Eye Clinic in Halle with Franz Schieck , whom he followed at the beginning of April 1925 at the University of Würzburg. In 1929 he completed his habilitation in ophthalmology in Würzburg and worked there as a private lecturer . In 1932 he obtained his habilitation at the University of Hamburg , where he worked as a senior physician at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and was appointed associate professor in 1934, teaching aviation medicine.

Kyrieleis, who took part in the Kapp Putsch , joined the Stahlhelm in the Weimar Republic in 1924 . At the time of National Socialism he was a candidate for the Reiter-SS in 1933/34 and a member of the SS from 1937 , where he achieved the rank of Oberscharführer. He eventually worked as an ophthalmologist for the Waffen SS . He was also a member of the NSV , the NS Lecturer Association , the NS Doctors Association and the NS Fliegerkorps . The Nazi Party , he joined the 1937th

Kyrieleis held the chair for ophthalmology at the University of Giessen from 1941, first as an associate professor and from 1944 as a full professor, and became director of the eye clinic. During the Second World War , he was a senior staff doctor and consultant specialist for eye diseases with the chief of medical services in the Air Force .

After the end of the war he was interned by the Allies until 1947. After his release he could not return to his chair and practiced as an ophthalmologist in Giessen . As a result of Spruchkammer method it was as a follower (group 4) denazified .

In 1951, Kyrieleis was appointed to the chair of ophthalmology at the University of Marburg , where he taught until his death and headed the university eye clinic . He did research on “Eye symptoms in nervous diseases and retinal diseases in general ailments. The term brain pressure papilla comes from Kyrieleis for the more precise characterization of the mechanism of the formation of papillary swelling. "

Fonts (selection)

  • About the occurrence and formation of streaky pigment deposits on the pleura pulmonalis , Springer, Berlin 1923 (also medical dissertation at the University of Freiburg 1924)
  • About congestive papilla: Clin., Anat. u. exper. Investigations , Springer, Berlin 1929. In: Archiv f. Ophthalmology. Vol. 121 (also medical habilitation thesis, University of Würzburg 1929)
  • Pupillotonia and Adie Syndrome , Marhold, Halle / Saale 1951 (belongs to: Collection of informal treatises from the field of ophthalmology; NFH 2)
  • Clinic of eye symptoms in nervous diseases: (A guide for practice) , de Gruyter, Berlin 1954
  • History of ophthalmology and the University Eye Clinic in Marburg ad Lahn , Elwert, Marburg 1958 (series of publications by the Philipps University of Marburg; 4 [rather 5])

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 72 , 166.
  2. ↑ a b German Biographical Encyclopedia : Volume 6: Kraatz - Menges. , Munich 2006, p. 179
  3. ^ Scientific journal: Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe , Volume 19, Issue 2, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 1970, p. 153
  4. ^ A b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 353
  5. ↑ Who is who ?, Volume 13, 1958, p. 727
  6. ^ A b Kornelia Grundmann: The development of university medicine in Hesse under American occupation using the example of the medical faculty in Marburg . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History (ZHG), Volume 110 (2005), p. 292
  7. ↑ Sigrid Oehler-Klein (Ed.): The Medical Faculty of the University of Gießen during National Socialism and in the post-war period. People and institutions, upheavals and continuities (= The Medical Faculty of the University of Giessen , Volume 2). Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-09043-8 , p. 617
  8. ↑ Hans Joachim Küchle: Eye clinics of German-speaking universities and their professors in the 19th and 20th centuries , Zülpich 2005, p. 251
  9. ↑ Kornelia Grundmann: The development of university medicine in Hesse under American occupation using the example of the Medical Faculty of Marburg . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History (ZHG), Volume 110 (2005), p. 282
personal data
SURNAME Kyrieleis, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1961
Place of death Marburg