Wilhelm Berger (medic, 1895)

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Wilhelm Berger

Wilhelm Berger (born October 11, 1895 in Herford , † July 2, 1938 in Pomerania ) was a German ENT doctor and university professor .

Life

Berger passed the Abitur examination at the Schillergymnasium in Münster in March 1914. In April 1914 he enrolled at the Westphalian Wilhelms University for Medicine. In the summer semester of 1914 he enlisted in Münster as a one-year volunteer with the infantry regiment "Herwarth von Bittenfeld" (1st Westphalian) No. 13 . With him he went to the First World War . He was at the front until August 1916, most recently as a company commander . From September 1916 he served as an observer with the air force. He suffered two of three wounds in aerial combat. During the demobilization he was first lieutenant.

Before resuming his studies, he reported to the Münster Academic Army . With her he participated in the suppression of the Ruhr uprising in March and April 1920 . 1919 Corps Rheno-Guestphalia recipiert , he distinguished himself as Consenior out. He passed the Physikum in March 1920 in Münster. As an inactive , he moved to the Prussian University of Greifswald and the new University of Hamburg . In May 1922 he passed the medical state examination in Hamburg. In 1923 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. Before the actual specialist training, he was in internal medicine and surgery at the Eppendorf General Hospital . For a year he was a regular assistant to the old pathologist Eugen Fraenkel . In January 1924 he began training in ear, nose and throat medicine with Arthur Thost . He interrupted her for a year in the summer of 1925 and traveled as a ship's doctor to South America, the Dutch East Indies and Australia.

In October 1926 he switched to Hermann Marx's assistant at the new Münster University Hospital . Partly because of his own inclination, partly at Marx's instigation, he went to Max Nadoleczny in Munich for a long time . The experience gained there in phoniatrics and speech therapy became the cornerstone of Berger's scientific work. When Marx took up the chair at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg in April 1928 , he took Berger with him; but on December 1, 1928, Berger returned to Münster as a senior physician. Heinrich Herzog had taken the chair there in the meantime . With him , Berger completed his habilitation in the summer semester of 1931. As the successor to Paul Stenger , he took the chair at the Albertus University in Königsberg in 1934 . In his publications he dealt with vowel theories and pathological vocal sounds. Also aeromedical studies on the importance of the vestibular system come from him. As a private pilot , he was killed in a plane crash at the age of 43. Adolf Greifenstein followed him in the chair .

Berger was married to Ingeborg born on April 12, 1932. Adriani, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Max Adriani. The marriage had four children: Margret (1933), Hermann (1934), Martin (1936) and Gertrud (1938).

Honors

literature

  • LB Seiferth : Wilhelm Berger † . Arch. F. Ear, nose and Larynx disease 115.

DNB certificates

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 136/64
  2. ↑ Dissertation: On aneurysms of the cerebral arteries with special consideration of aetiology, with casuistic contributions .
  3. ↑ In the meantime, Walter Hesse had been acting clinic director. In the post-war period he was a full professor in Rostock.
  4. ↑ Academic teaching centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Germany in the 20th century , compiled and edited by Konrad Fleischer and Hans Heinz Neumann. Published by the German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery on the occasion of its 75th anniversary in 1996. Springer, Heidelberg 1996.
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ENT doctor, university professor in Münster and Königsberg
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1938
Place of death Pomerania