Wilhelm Rust (veterinarian)

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Wilhelm Rust (born December 30, 1863 in Langenhagen , † December 18, 1957 in Hanover ) was a German veterinarian.

Life

Wilhelm Rust was born as the son of the carpenter of the same name. In 1881 he began studying veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover . At the beginning of his studies he joined the Corps Normannia Hanover . In April 1886 he received his license to practice medicine and became a general practitioner in Domslau in the district of Breslau . After about three years he moved to Canth . In June 1892 he passed the district veterinary exam in Berlin. In March 1893 he became district veterinarian for the district of Marienburg , in July 1896 for the district of Königsberg and in August 1898 for the district of Breslau as well as a veterinary councilor. At the First World War Rust attended the reserve as a senior staff veterinarian. During the war, in February 1915, he became a Government Veterinary Council in the Wroclaw District Government. In 1923 he received an epidemiological study at the Veterinary College for Dr. med vet. PhD. In 1924/25 he was promoted to the senior government and veterinary council. He retired on April 1, 1929.

Rust was from 1906 to October 1928 chairman of the "Association of Prussian Official Veterinarians". From August 1933 until it was absorbed into the advanced training department of the Reich Chamber of Veterinarians within the scope of the Gleichschaltung , he was President of the German Veterinary Council . After the Second World War he lived in Langenhagen.

Rust received academic and professional awards for his life's work as a veterinarian and veterinary professional. In addition to articles on the occasion of his retirement and his 70th, 75th, 80th, 85th and 90th birthday, he was honored in obituaries in the magazines Deutsches Tierärzteblatt and Deutsche Tierärztliche Wochenschrift .

Awards

  • Honorary citizen of the University of Veterinary Medicine Berlin, 1928
  • Honorary citizen of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, 1928
  • Honorary member of the Association of Veterinarians in Lower Saxony, 1953
  • Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class, 1954

Fonts

  • Epidemology of contagious horse anemia in the Wroclaw administrative region , 1923

literature

  • Fritz Riggert, Otto Gervesmann: History of the Corps Normannia Hannover, 1859, March 15, 1959, 1959, p. 108.

Web links

  • Biograms, Rust, Wilhelm at www.vetmed.fu-berlin.de (website of the Free University of Berlin, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Svantje Insenhöfer: Dr. Friedrich Weber - Reichstierärzteführer 1934 - 1945 , inaugural dissertation Hanover 2008, p. 98, 100 ( digital version (PDF; 5.3 MB))
personal data
SURNAME Rust, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenhagen
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1957
Place of death Hanover