Wilhelm Haberling

Wilhelm Haberling as a student in Breslau (1889)

Wilhelm Haberling (born February 14, 1871 in Liegnitz ; † August 22, 1940 in Düsseldorf ) was a German medical historian . From 1923 to 1939 he worked as an associate professor at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf .

Life

Haberling was a descendant of Siegmund Hahn , the founder of hydrotherapy . As a doctor's son, he began to study medicine at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau . In 1889 he became active in the Corps Silesia . In the same year he moved to the Albertus University in Königsberg , where he also joined the Corps Hansea Königsberg . As an inactive , he studied at the Philipps University of Marburg .

In 1914 he was appointed lecturer for the history of medicine at the Academy for Practical Medicine in Düsseldorf, founded in 1907. As a military doctor, he became senior physician general in the First World War. Then he was senior government medical advisor at the main supply office in Koblenz . In 1923 he moved back to Düsseldorf and became associate professor at the medical academy, which in 1931 set up an institute with its own lecture hall. He has supervised around 225 dissertations, some of which appeared in the Düsseldorf papers on the history of medicine founded by Haberling in 1937 .

Haberling was from 1910 a member of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology and from 1928 to 1939 publisher of this society's communications. Since the foundation of the Rhenish Society for the History of Natural Science, Medicine and Technology in 1911, he has been a member of its board. In countless lectures in this society, he has lectured on medical history topics. In 1939 he ended his work in research and teaching for health reasons.

Wilhelm Haberling's wife Elseluise b. Meyer-Becherer († 1945) published in 1940 the articles on the history of the midwifery class , part 1 The midwifery class in Germany from its beginnings to the Thirty Years War .

Haberling in National Socialism

After Haberling was attested "an intellectual closeness to National Socialism", the latest source finds again give reason to critically question his position from 1933 onwards. It is about the prehistory of Haberling's story of the Düsseldorf doctors (see below), which the Düsseldorf History Association printed in 1936. Haberling, who was a member of the board of directors of the history association, had listed at least three doctors of the Jewish faith in the list of doctors completed in 1932, including the outstanding pediatrician Arthur Schlossmann, who had converted to Protestantism . Due to the naming of the three people who refused conformist "Düsseldorf Medical Association" its printing costs. Among other things, the reason is that one sees “ a substantial deficiency in the ideological view of the author, which had an impact in the Jewish system period ”.

In the course of the ensuing legal dispute between the history association and the publisher on the one hand and the medical association on the other, which the first-named party was able to decide for itself in two instances, Haberling was personally indignant about the "Jew-friendly attitude" accused of him. He emphasized his alleged National Socialist sentiments and claimed that his only concern was to show the pernicious work that “a small group of Jews” had carried out among the Düsseldorf medical community. His directory thus represents a useful aid for the National Socialist " Reich Institute for the History of New Germany " led by Walter Frank , which should serve to resolutely advance the " fight against Judaism in medicine ".

Since Haberling was not personally endangered according to the records - not least because Wilhelm Grau, who was the expert for the “Reichsinstitut” , attested him methodical inability, but not appreciation for the Jews - his commitment to National Socialist anti-Semitism appears all the more worrying. However, this episode from the last years of Haberling's life needs to be embedded in a biography that is still to be written, ideally based on the history of science.

Honors

• Iron Cross 2nd class
• Red Eagle Order 4th class
• Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Medal
• 1926 "Golden Medal" of the GeSoLei , the Great Exhibition in Düsseldorf 1926 for health care, social care and physical exercise for the organization of the exhibition: Two thousand years of health care on the Rhine, connected to the hall of honor for Rhenish naturalists and doctors
• 1931 honorary member of the Rhenish Society for the History of Natural Science, Medicine and Technology
• 1935 Owner of the Sudhoff Medal , donated in 1925 by the German Society for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences , for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of the history of medicine, natural sciences and technology
• 1935 honorary member of the Kgl. Romanian Society for the History of Medicine
• 1939 honorary member of the Accademia di Storia dell 'Arte Sanitaria
• 1939 member of the Leopoldina , the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian Academy of Natural Scientists in Halle .

Fonts

• The prostitution in the armies and its fight against a historical study . Leipzig 1914
• The ancient Roman military doctors . Berlin 1916.
• The care of the wounded in the heroic songs of the Middle Ages . Jena 1917 (= Jena medical-historical contributions. Volume 10).
• The portraits of Ambroise Paré . Leipzig 1923.
• The triumphal chariot of antimony - the struggle for the introduction of antimony into the medicinal treasure at the beginning of modern times . Leverkusen 1927.
• Alexander von Suchten - a Danzig doctor and poet of the 16th century . Gdansk 1929.
• Johann Winther of Andernach. A Rhenish doctor and teacher of medicine in Paris, Metz and Strasbourg (1505-1574) . Springer, Berlin 1932. GoogleBooks
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe's relationship to medicine .
• Heinrich Heine's medical ancestors and relatives . New York 1934
• Johannes Peter Müller . The life of the Rhenish natural scientist. Akad. Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1924.
• with Franz Hübotter , Hermann Vierordt (ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. 2nd edition, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1929–1935.
• The history of the Düsseldorf doctors and hospitals up to 1907. Ed. Lintz, Düsseldorf 1936 (also published in article form in: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch). Düsseldorf Vol. 38. 1934/1936, pp. 1–141. ISSN  0342-0019

A 116-title compilation of Haberling's medical history work, compiled by Rudolph Zaunick, can be found in the communications on the history of medicine, natural sciences and technology. It also shows a portrait of Haberling.

Associate Editor

• August Hirsch , Ernst Julius Gurlt (Hrsg.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. 6 volumes, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna / Leipzig 1884–1888 (unchanged reprint Mansfield n.d.; 2nd edition, reviewed and supplemented by Wilhelm Haberling, Franz Hübotter and Hermann Vierordt. 5 volumes and supplementary volume, Berlin and Vienna 1929–1935 ; unchanged edition Munich 1962).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 21 , 538; 87 , 121
2. ^ Peter Voswinckel: Art. "Wilhelm Haberling". in: Peter Voswinckel (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Vol. 3. Supplements and additions. Hildesheim 2002, p. 569. ISBN 3-487-11659-6
3. ↑ Communications on the history of medicine, natural sciences and technology. Barth, Leipzig 39.1940, 3 u. 4. ISSN 0368-9913  

literature

• Haberling, Wilhelm, Gustav, Moritz. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , pp. 628–629.
• Walter von Brunn , Rudolph Zaunick : Wilhelm Haberling . Sudhoffs Archive 33 (1940)
• Proteus , Vol. 1. Negotiation reports of the Rhenish Society for the History of Natural Science, Medicine and Technology with a ceremony for Wilhelm Haberling for his sixtieth birthday. Neuendorff, Bonn 1931.
• Proteus , Vol. 2. Negotiation reports and treatises of the Rhenish Society for the History of Natural Science, Medicine and Technology (Bonn headquarters) on the occasion of its 25th anniversary in November 1936. Neuendorff, Bonn 1937.
• Announcements on the history of medicine, science and technology. Barth, Leipzig 38.1939. ISSN  0368-9913
• Liselotte Buchheim:  Haberling, Wilhelm Gustav Moritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 396 ( digitized version ).
• Stephan Laux : The Düsseldorf History Association in the Resistance? Wilhelm Haberling's “History of Düsseldorf Doctors” (1932/1936) and the background to its publication during the National Socialist era, in: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch . ISSN  0342-0019 , Volume 77 (2007), pp. 227-261

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Haberling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Estate (collection of materials, pamphlets) in the UB of the Humboldt University in Berlin
• German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology eV