Wilhelm Stoeltzner

Wilhelm Stoeltzner (born December 19, 1872 in Berlin ; † December 26, 1954 there ) was a German professor of paediatrics at the University Children's Hospital in Königsberg .

Life

University Children's Hospital in Königsberg until it was destroyed in 1945

Wilhelm Stoeltzner received his doctorate in 1895 and qualified as a professor for pediatrics at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in 1903 . He then became an associate professor at the University of Halle / Saale , whereupon he was appointed head of the university clinic at the Albertus University of Königsberg in 1925 as the successor to Hugo Falkenheim . On May 12, 1922 ( registration number 3463 ) he became a member of the Leopoldina . With the circumstances in Nazi disagree, he was "on time" with 65 years in 1937 as emeritus and lived in retirement in Berlin.

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After the end of the war he was asked in 1945 to restore the hospital operations of the Berlin University Children's Hospital, which had been destroyed during the war, while teaching pediatrics. In two years he created the prerequisites for an orderly operation at the Humboldt University in Berlin until he finally retired in 1947. In that year he was also made an honorary member of the German Society for Pediatrics . He died in Berlin on December 26, 1954. His grave in the Lichterfelde cemetery has been preserved.

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After the infectious diseases such as scarlet fever and diphtheria had lost their horror through the vaccinations, "infant dyspepsia" (vomiting diarrhea due to nutritional disorders) became rampant in the 1920s. Stoeltzner and his senior physician Rau, who came from Vienna and had a lot of experience, set up a human milk collection point and a retrieval and reporting system for wet nurses. Furthermore, a mother advice center was set up at the children's hospital. These measures were a prerequisite for completely changing the infant's diet: Stoelzner developed a special “children's sugar-dextrin-maltose mixture” for nutrition.

Children with the terrible " Königsberger Haff disease ", which has been reported about several times in the Association for Scientific Medicine , were also admitted. Stoeltzner set up a special laboratory in the basement of his clinic, fed cats and dogs with fish and - separately - with water from the Fresh Lagoon and came to the conclusion that the cellulose absorbed by the fish from the special cellulose factories on the banks of the lagoon was fresh Haff is the author of the disease. In doing so, he contributed to research into the disease, even though his theses turned out to be incorrect (it was a virus disease in fish, as it later occurred in Northern Europe and Russia, regardless of cellulose).

literature

• H. Scholz, P. Schroeder: Pediatrics. In: Doctors in East and West Prussia. Holzner Verlag, Würzburg 1970, pp. 95-100.
• L. Teichert-Hoenisch: Remembering my work as an assistant in the Königsberg University Clinic under Prof. Dr. Stoeltzner. In: The East Prussian family of doctors. Easter circular 1964, pp. 15-16. (4 images)
• R. Linstädt: The University Clinic in Königsberg. In: The East Prussian family of doctors. Easter circular 1965, pp. 14–15 (3 images)
• E. Neumann-Redlin von Meding: Königsberger Haff disease. In: Königsberger Bürgerbrief. No. 76, 2010, pp. 57-58.
• E. Neumann-Redlin von Meding: The University Children's Clinic in Königsberg 1925-1945. Notes on children's orphanages 1945–1948. In: Königsberger Bürgerbrief. No. 81, 2013, pp. 44-47.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Stoeltzner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Wilhelm Stoeltzner in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member entry of Wilhelm Stoeltzner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 11, 2017.