Werner Lüttge

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Werner Lüttge (born October 2, 1895 in Halle (Saale) , † July 12, 1979 in Bamberg ) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician.

Life

After attending school in Halle, he moved to the Western Front as a war volunteer in 1914 (World War I) . Seriously wounded in the Battle of the Somme , he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class as an artillery officer . From 1918 he studied medicine at the Friedrichs University in Halle . On October 1, 1922 received his doctorate he became Dr. med. He began his medical training with Hugo Sellheim in Halle. After a year in Leipzig, in 1928 he spent a year with Victor Schmieden in Frankfurt am Main and then with Hermann Wintz in Erlangen. There habilitation , he was associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and radiology.

In 1933 he successfully applied for the vacant position as director of the State Midwifery School and Maternity Hospital in Bamberg . At his request, it was expanded into the State Women's Clinic that same year . In 1950 a new building for the clinic with X-ray and children's departments, a house chapel and a lecture hall was inaugurated. At times the number of deliveries was higher than at the university hospitals in Erlangen and Würzburg combined. No public grants were required for years. He was responsible for 62,000 births and 50,000 gynecological treatment cases.

He refused in the era of National Socialism , forced sterilization and forced abortion (on forced labor erinnen) make (acc. To research by the Erlanger physician Wolfgang Frobenius).

Lüttge supervised 150 dissertations . He lectured at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen until 1962. After thirty years in Bamberg, he retired in 1962 . The district president of Upper Franconia , Dr. Stahler.

His first wife Elisabeth b. Kalthoff died giving birth to his son Dieter on November 9, 1930. Three daughters were born from his second marriage: Maria, Monika and Liselotte. With his wife Elfriede geb. Hirschauer and his daughters lived on the "Paradies" above Bamberg.

Corps student

He became active in the Corps Palaiomarchia at the end of 1918 among more than 20 active members . As a first charge and later as a drum doctor , he enjoyed a high reputation in the Seniors' Convent in Halle and was regarded as an excellent leader. He was called "MachsDu" - because he could delegate. In the March battles in central Germany , he and his corps brothers fought in the forefront against the rebellious communists. The Corps Masovia awarded him the ribbon in 1960. The Kösener Seniors Convents Association already congratulated him on his 60th birthday . Lüttge was from 1948 to 1977 chairman and then honorary chairman of the Corpsphilisterverband Bamberg. He often headed the Staffelstein-Kommers (including the 75th in 1966). On the eve of his 80th birthday, the Bamberger AHSC and the Bamberger Waffenring brought him a torchlight procession.

Honors and honorary positions

Lüttge was on the parish council of the Protestant St. Stephen's Church in Bamberg for six years . For many years he was director of the tennis club and since 1958 the first post-war director of Harmonie . He was a dedicated Schlaraffe and a Rotarian . In 1963 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Works

  • Heat, bath and radiation treatment of women's diseases. Enke, Stuttgart 1938.
  • X-ray forceps delivery. Reinhardt, Munich 1933.
  • with W. von Mertz: Alcohol-Extract-Reaction AER for the detection of pregnancy, carcinoma, gender of the child etc. S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1927.
  • Midwifery textbook , 2nd edition 1958.

Lüttge wrote about a hundred scientific papers and statements in medical journals.

literature

  • Walter Stoeckel , Friedrich Michelsson: German gynecologist directory. JA Barth, Leipzig 1939, p. 295
  • Walter Habel: Who is who? 12th edition. Berlin 1955, p. 741
  • Rainer Pittroff: The teachers of medicine at the University of Erlangen 1843–1943 and their career . Inaugural dissertation, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität zu Erlangen, 1964 (Werner Lüttge p. 88)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Aetiology of the Varicocele
  2. ↑ Dr. Klaus Wasmuth, Letter to the Editor, Franconian Day , October 8, 1983
  3. ↑ Udo B. Greiner: In the resistance against the Nazis . In: Erlanger Nachrichten . July 3, 2019, p. 31 .
  4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 61/370.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Herrlein , Amella Mai (ed.): Directory of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 2005 , Potsdam 2006
  6. ↑ Deutsche Corpszeitung 1966, p. 30
  7. ↑ B. Löwe: The AHSC Bamberg celebrates Lüttge's 70th birthday . In: Newspaper of the Altmark Masuria. 37/38, Kiel 1966, p. 639 f.
  8. ↑ Werner Lüttge Honorary Chairman of the AHSC Bamberg. In: Newspaper of the Altmark Masuria. 62, Kiel 1978, p. 1489
  9. ↑ G. Schmitt, Deutsche Corpszeitung , December 1975, p. 274
  10. ^ Society of Bamberg dignitaries, founded in 1791, including ETA Hoffmann as a member
  11. ↑ Hans Schu North: obituary for Werner Lüttge. In: Corpszeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 65 (1979), p. 1710 f.
personal data
SURNAME Lüttge, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and obstetrician
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1979
Place of death Bamberg