Wilhelm Wagner (medic, 1899)

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Ferdinand Wilhelm Wagner (born April 14, 1899 in Eisleben , † February 26, 1976 in Goslar ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

Wagner was the son of a station driver. He made in 1917 at the High School of his hometown, the Notabitur and enlisted in a regiment of artillery , which on the Eastern Front and the Western Front was used. He fell into French captivity in September 1918 and was handed over to the First United States Army . After his release he studied medicine from 1919 to 1923 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Friedrichs-Universität Halle . He fought in the Halle Freikorps , which had been formed by Halle students and university teachers at the time of the March fighting in central Germany . He was also a member of the Escherich organization . In 1923 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He completed his medical internship at the Brandenburg City Hospital.

Approved in 1924 , he researched as an assistant in Halle's pathology ( Rudolf Beneke ) and pharmacology ( Martin Kochmann ). In 1926 he moved to the Halle surgery department under Friedrich Voelcker as an assistant doctor . From 1929 he headed her X-ray department. That is why he interned in 1929/30 with Rudolf Grashey in Cologne and with Hans Holfelder in Frankfurt am Main. He completed his habilitation in 1934 and taught as a private lecturer in Halle.

Between the day of Potsdam and the Reichstag election in March 1933 , Wagner joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party in February 1933 (membership no. 1.480.045). He worked as an SA doctor in the Sturmabteilung . In October 1933 he became the head of lecturers at the University of Halle, and in 1934 head of the university group of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association . From 1935 to 1945 he was the leader of the Gaudozenten in Halle-Merseburg. As such, he was responsible for the political supervision of all teaching staff at the renamed Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . In contrast to officials at other universities, Wagner did not develop any rivalry with Rector Johannes Weigelt .

After Voelcker's retirement in 1937, Wagner was entrusted with the management of the clinic. In 1939 the government appointed him professor of surgery and director of the clinic. After the beginning of the Second World War , he did military service from September 1939 to July 1940. From January to April 1945 Wagner served as rector and dean . He and his senior physician Ernst Kraas were arrested by the Americans on May 1, 1945 and interned in various West German camps until 1948. In October 1945 he was suspended from the University Office by the University of Halle.

After denazification , Wagner was chief physician at the Evangelical Hospital in Wanne-Eickel from 1948 to 1956 . He then taught for three years at the University of Kabul . When he returned from Afghanistan in 1959, at the age of 61 he could not find any other (academic) employment. That is why he first asked the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf and then the Medical Faculty in Bonn to help him secure his retirement . On July 15, 1960, the Faculty Council in Bonn finally decided to apply to the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia for Wagner to be “an exempt full professor in the Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn” . The application was approved by a certificate from the Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs dated July 27, 1961, so that Wagner has since been listed as Emeritus at the University of Bonn, although he never taught there.

In 1960 he took over the management of the sanatorium on Burgberg in Bad Harzburg . Retired in 1961, he died in Goslar at the age of 76.

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  1. ^ First names according to official entries in Eisleben and Goslar. "Friedrich-Wilhelm" (Wenzel 2011) is therefore a mistake.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Anencephaly with numerous malformations due to amniotic adhesions .
  3. ↑ a b c d Wenzel (2011)
  4. ^ Habilitation thesis: The rectum in the X-ray image .
  5. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 180.
  6. ^ UA Bonn: MF-PA 395
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Ferdinand Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisleben
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1976
Place of death Goslar