Wilhelm Clausen

Wilhelm Clausen (born December 23, 1878 in Wahnebergen , † April 28, 1961 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German medic .

Life

Wilhelm Clausen was the son of a farmer and attended the Domgymnasium Verden , where he graduated from high school in 1898 . In that year he began to study medicine, he studied at the universities of Greifswald , Berlin and Jena . He finished his studies in 1903 with the license to practice medicine . For the next two years he worked as an assistant doctor in Essen . He then worked from 1905 to 1907 as an assistant at the Charité eye clinic . Then he went to Koenigsberg .

In 1912 Clausen received his habilitation from the University of Königsberg . At the same time, the university eye clinic hired him as a senior assistant. From 1914 to 1918 he worked as a doctor at the front during World War I and was also head of the Vilna eye ward . He held the rank of senior staff doctor. For these services he received the Iron Cross II. Class and the Austrian Decoration of Honor II. Class .

In 1915, Clausen completed his habilitation at the University of Halle , which hired him as a professor the next year . In 1919 he was promoted to senior physician at the university's eye clinic and in 1921 to an associate professor. At the University of Würzburg he held a chair in 1924/1925 and also worked as the acting head of the university eye clinic there. In 1925 he returned to Halle as a full professor. In 1926 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Clausen was able to rebuild the eye clinic in Halle. This was financed by both industrialists and patients. In 1937 he received an appointment at the University of Bonn , but did not accept it. During the attack on Poland in 1939 he was an advisory ophthalmologist in the X Army and then worked until November of the next year as chief physician at the Reserve Hospital I Halle. In 1941 he was appointed head of the reserve hospital III in the eye clinic of the Martin Luther University, which he remained until the end of the war. For this he was awarded the War Merit Cross, Second Class.

The NSDAP belonged Clausen since 1 May 1933 (Membership no. 2260390). He was dismissed from the professorship on September 28, 1945, but was supposed to teach again for one semester from October 10, 1945. Forced by the state government, the university dismissed him in 1946 and was forbidden to continue teaching. Nevertheless, he was able to take up the professorship again in April 1946. At the same time he became director of the eye clinic and joined the CDU .

Because of his health, Clausen retired in 1953 . Eight years later he died in Halle.

Honors

• National Prize of the GDR

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

• Entry on Wilhelm Clausen in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 94