Werner Rotter

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Werner Rotter

Werner Rotter (born August 24, 1897 in Berlin , † November 26, 1977 in Homburg ) was a German pathologist. In 1948 he was the first professor of pathology at the new Saarland University.

Life

Rotter was the son of the Berlin surgeon Josef Rotter . After graduating from the Friedrichs-Gymnasium Berlin , he joined the German Army on July 1, 1915 as a war volunteer . He was in the field until November 1918. After the November Revolution and demobilization , he studied medicine from April 1, 1919 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1919 he was reciprocated in the Corps Hasso-Borussia Freiburg . He passed the state examination in Freiburg and was from June 15, 1923 a seven-month medical internship with Carl Benda in Moabit and Wilhelm Ceelen in Westend. Approved as a doctor on January 15, 1924 , he stayed as a trainee with Ceelen, as a regular assistant doctor from April 1, 1924 to March 31, 1925. With Ceelen he went to the Prussian University of Greifswald for a year and a half . On March 3, 1926, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. On October 11, 1926, he followed Ceelen to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He stayed there for three and a half years until April 30, 1930.

Costa Rica

On June 1, 1930, he followed the call of the Costa Rican government to head the Pathological Institute at the San Juan de Dios Hospital in San José . He dealt intensively with the still marginal tropical pathology, to which he remained connected throughout his life. In 1932 he was accepted into the medical faculty of the Universidad de Costa Rica on an honorary basis .

Saarland

He returned to Germany in 1938 and took over the management of the newly founded Institute for Pathology at the Institute for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases in Saarbrücken on April 1, 1938. The Second World War prevented the expansion of this institute. In the army of the Wehrmacht he took part in the Second World War from December 18, 1942 to October 16, 1944. When medical-academic teaching began in Homburg in 1946, Rotter was hired to teach the Homburg university courses. In 1948 the Homburg University Institute was founded, which in 1948 developed into the Saarland University . From January 1, 1949 to September 30, 1956, Rotter was Director of the Pathological Institute of the University Clinics in the Homburg / Saar Regional Hospital. On July 1, 1958, he was appointed full professor . He tirelessly devoted himself to three tasks:

  1. the optimal teaching that was possible in those years with 20–30 students per semester
  2. the expansion of his institute, whose new building could not be moved into until 1963
  3. participation in the committees of the faculty and the university

In 1960 he was Vice Rector . In the mining industry in Saarland , of course, rotter's scientific work focused on less tropical diseases than lung diseases . In 1965 he organized the 49th conference of the German Society for Pathology in Saarbrücken and Homburg. He retired on September 30, 1965 .

Rotter was married on July 19, 1974 to Irene Rotter b. Schäfer (born December 1, 1912 in Sulzbach, † March 28, 1982 in Homburg). In his little house in Homburg, he devoted himself entirely to his old passion - Romanesque architectural sculpture and fresco painting . He knew almost all the Romanesque churches in Western and Southern Europe and could compete with some specialist scholars. He had written several essays on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . He was particularly devoted to the thoughts of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel .

literature

  • Werner Rotter on his 60th birthday . Mélanges Werner Rotter. Annales universitatis Saraviensis. Medicine-Médecine, vol. VI, fasc. 1, 1958.
  • M [anfred] Piroth: Werner Rotter . Negotiations of the German Society for Pathology 62 (1978), pp. 547-549.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 31/345
  2. ↑ Dissertation: On the origin and treatment of traumatic, double-sided, asymmetrical clavicle dislocations .
  3. ↑ a b Using the Saarbrücken personnel file of Dr. W. Müller compiled a biographical overview.
  4. ^ Costa Rican Publications (Worldcat)
  5. ↑ 60 years of the Medical Faculty in Homburg (uni-saarland.de)
  6. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1954
personal data
SURNAME Rotter, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist, university professor in Costa Rica and Homburg
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1977
Place of death Homburg