Wilhelm Wegner

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Wilhelm Wegner (born January 15, 1898 in Thorn , † November 2, 1972 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German ophthalmologist and from 1934 to 1966 director of the Freiburg University Eye Clinic.

Career

Wegner took part in the First World War as a war volunteer . In 1916 he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve. From 1919 to 1923 he studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg and Greifswald. In 1922 he passed the first state examination at the University of Greifswald and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . Subsequently he assisted Walther Löhlein there . From 1920 to 1925 Wegner was a member of the German National People's Party and the Stahlhelm . This was followed by his habilitation in 1927 , before he moved to Freiburg im Breisgau together with Löhlein in 1932, where he had been offered the management of the local eye clinic. In 1933 Wegner became a member of the NSDAP . In January 1934 he was also appointed steward of the NSDAP at the Medical Faculty in Freiburg. When Löhlein was appointed to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin in 1934 , Wegner was appointed full professor of ophthalmology and head of the eye clinic at the University of Freiburg in his successor . According to Jens Martin Rohrbach , Wegner's closeness to NS was of decisive importance. Until his retirement in 1966, Wegner remained medical director of the Freiburg University Eye Clinic. In the years 1935–1937 he was also dean of the medical faculty.

Fonts

  • A Contribution to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Dissertation, Greifswald 1922.
  • with Karl Wurm: Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann's disease (epithelial cellular granulomatosis) and its significance for endogenous eye inflammation. A contribution to the genesis of chronic recurrent iridocyclitis. (= Ophthalmologist's library, volume 27) Enke, Stuttgart 1957 ISSN  0068-3361

literature

  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 181.
  • Günter Mackensen: In memoriam - Obituary for Professor Dr. med. Wilhelm Wegner. In: Freiburg University Gazette. 12. 1973, 39. p. 5.
  • Wilhelm Wegner (1898–1972) In: Günter Mackensen, Hanns-Hellmuth Unger, Heinrich Witschel: The development of ophthalmology. A historical review in Freiburg. Schillinger, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-89155-204-1 , p. 49 and a.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f History of Ophthalmology Freiburg. Medical directors of the University Eye Clinic Freiburg. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 181.
  3. ^ Jens Martin Rohrbach: Ophthalmology in National Socialism. Schattauer, Stuttgart / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-7945-2512-6 , p. 92.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 659.
personal data
SURNAME Wegner, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorn
DATE OF DEATH 2nd November 1972
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau