Wilhelm Christian Crecelius

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Wilhelm Christian Crecelius (born October 29, 1898 in Niederlahnstein , † September 27, 1979 in Dresden ) was a German physician .

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Crecelius was drafted in 1916 and served in the Air Force during World War I. A year later he was able to take his secondary school diploma. First, he took a degree in engineering in Darmstadt, but then switched to medicine in Würzburg and Erlangen , where he became a member of the Country Team Saxo-Makaria Würzburg , today's country club Alemannia Makaria was. In 1923 he received his doctorate. He took up a position as an assistant doctor in the Johannstadt City Hospital in Dresden, where he was trained by Otto Rostoski .

In 1927 Wilhelm Crecelius developed a method for determining blood sugar based on the reduction of picric acid . In 1931 he was recognized as an internist , the following year he set up his own practice in Dresden. After the end of the war he was briefly chief physician of the medical clinic of the Heinrich Braun Clinic in Zwickau, then he became clinic director and medical director of the Johannstadt City Hospital. In 1952 he received his habilitation in nutritional physiology .

He then played a major role in the establishment of the Dresden Medical Academy , a medical college that existed from 1954 to 1993 , from which the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital Dresden and the medical faculty of the Technical University of Dresden emerged .

In 1942 he joined the NSDAP , in the GDR he was a member of the LDPD . In 1978 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

Wilhelm Crecelius had been married to the doctor Lucia Dederichs since 1929, and they had two daughters. He died in 1979 and was buried in the Striesen cemetery .

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  1. ↑ Berthold Ohm, Alfred Philipp (Ed.): Address directory of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 435.
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diabetesgeschichte.de
  3. ^ Kathrin Langowsky: The development from the Dresden-Johannstadt City Hospital to the Carl Gustav Carus Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden. (PDF document; 11 kB)
  4. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 64.
  5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 4, 1978, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Crecelius, Wilhelm Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederlahnstein
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1979
Place of death Dresden