Wilhelm Rieck

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Wilhelm Rieck (born July 22, 1893 in Groß Pankow (Prignitz) , † June 27, 1991 ) was a German veterinary and human medicine.

Life

Wilhelm Rieck began studying at the Military Veterinary Academy in Berlin in 1913 and became a member of the Corps Franconia Berlin (today in Kaiserslautern). He participated in the First World War as a volunteer. From March to May 1919 he fought as a volunteer in the York Jäger Corps against the Spartakists in Berlin. In 1919 he finished studying veterinary medicine. In May 1921 he was awarded a Dr. med. vet. PhD. He passed the animal breeding inspector exam. From April 1922 to 1924 he was an assistant at the Institute for Anatomy at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Berlin . He then worked as a veterinarian at the state meat inspection in Berlin and as a practical veterinarian in Berlin-Köpenick until March 1927 . He had received the qualification as a civil servant veterinarian in Prussia in July 1925.

On the side he had studied agriculture since 1919 and human medicine since November 1920 . He completed his studies in agriculture in August 1921 with the diploma examination. He finished his medical studies in 1925. He received his medical license in 1928 after completing his medical internship in the internal department of the Königstein-Elisabeth Hospital in Berlin-Oberschöneweide .

From 1928 to April 1934 he worked as a general practitioner and veterinarian in Köpenick and the surrounding area. In May 1931 he completed his habilitation at the Veterinary College in Berlin in the subject of the history of veterinary medicine. As a private lecturer, he taught veterinary history in Berlin. In the following years he created the veterinary history seminar , consisting of a library, archive and museum. The seminar was the only central institution for veterinary historical research worldwide.

On May 1, 1934, Rieck joined the Reichswehr as a medical officer , but continued to give lectures in Berlin. Initially a staff veterinarian in the 4th Cavalry Regiment, he became a regimental veterinarian in the Jüterbog Artillery Regiment in October 1934. The following year he was promoted to senior staff veterinarian. In 1937 he was appointed associate professor. When the war began, he no longer gave any lectures. Deployed to the front, he was promoted to senior field veterinarian in April 1941 and promoted to senior veterinarian in December 1942 , and in April 1943 was appointed corps veterinarian . In the same month, he was also at the University of Berlin , where the School of Veterinary Medicine opened in the meantime, to the doctor Dr. med. PhD. In June 1944 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and two months later became a member of the National Committee for Free Germany . He was released from captivity after four and a half years. He did not resume teaching at Berlin University.

In 1959, Rieck was elected to succeed Wilhelm Pschorr as chairman of the history of veterinary medicine section of the German Veterinary Medical Society . A first scientific symposium was held in Hanover in 1964 under his direction. Due to the steadily increasing number of foreign participants, the 6th Symposium in 1969 saw the founding of the World Society for the History of Veterinary Medicine , of which Wilhelm Rieck was President from 1969 to 1977. His successor was Ernst-Heinrich Lochmann, who also took over the management of the specialist group on the history of veterinary medicine in 1985 .

Awards

Fonts

  • Ancient animal ophthalmology , 1922 (dissertation in veterinary medicine)
  • The oldest canine myology , 1925
  • A Swiss cattle medicine booklet , 1925
  • Protective measures against the spread of anthrax by tanneries , 1925
  • Veterinary professional relationships 100 years ago , 1926
  • On the oldest history of the University of Veterinary Medicine Berlin , 1929
  • The hygiene in the German slaughterhouses and their development since 1860 , 1929
  • Sheep disease control in the 16th century , 1930
  • The development of the veterinary system in Prussia , 1931 (habilitation thesis)
  • Veterinary historical research in the past, present and future , 1931
  • The horse tooth theory of JW Krumm , 1931
  • Veterinary instruments through the ages and their support by the H. Hauptner instrument factory , 1932
  • To combat quarreling in Mecklenburg-Strelitz , 1933
  • The evolution of veterinary historical research , 1935
  • Life and works of the doctor Kaspar Torrella , 1943 (doctoral thesis in medicine)
  • Vademecum for veterinarians , 1953
  • The small animal practice , 1956
  • Unknown Vegetius Lessons by the Florentine linguist CR Dati 1657 , 1968
  • On the pathology of equine diseases in the Middle Ages. In: Gundolf Keil , Rainer Rudolf, Wolfram Schmitt, Hans J. Vermeer (eds.): Specialist literature of the Middle Ages. Festschrift Gerhard Eis . Stuttgart 1968, pp. 277-292.
  • For the hundredth birthday of Reinhard Froehner , 1969
  • Beginnings of Meat Hygiene , 1969
  • For preserving meat 190 years ago , 1969
  • The bleeding in the anonymous introduction to Mulomedicina Chironis , 1971

literature

  • E.-H. Lohmann: Wilhelm Rieck - first holder of the Cheiron medal . In: Deutsches Tierärzteblatt 1989, Feft 7, p. 517. Printed in: Die Wachenburg - Messages from the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention , Volume 37, 1989, Issue 4
  • Ines Schulze: The veterinary training center Berlin between 1933 and 1945 , 2007; Chapter 4.2.1 Veterinary history seminar , pp. 402-406 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary. In: Berlin and Munich veterinary weekly. 104: 327 (1991).
  2. ^ Section History of Veterinary Medicine - 5 decades of research, training and public relations
personal data
SURNAME Rieck, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Gross Pankow (Prignitz)
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1991