Wilhelm Wilde

Memorial at the "Dr. Wilde House"

Relief Dr. Savage

(Leberecht Friedrich) Wilhelm Wilde (born November 24, 1829 in Meyenburg , † February 8, 1881 in Plau am See ) was a German medic.

biography

Wilhelm Wilde - son of a cantor from Meyenburg - received his doctorate in Greifswald in 1855 and then established himself as a general practitioner in his native Meyenburg. From 1857 he worked as a medical supervisor at the Bad Stuer water sanatorium, which was flourishing . In addition, he already held office hours in Plau. In November 1860, at the request of the city fathers and his patients there, Wilde moved entirely to Plau. Here he was the initiator and first director of the Plau City Hospital, which opened in 1866 and whose management was transferred to the Bethlehem Abbey in Ludwigslust until 1916 . The Jewish merchants Edward Samuel Lassen from Bradford and Adolph Alexander from Hamburg, who were born in Plau , each donated the furnishing of several hospital rooms. On February 11, 1870, Wilde was appointed Medical Councilor. Unmarried and already marked by severe suffering, he set up a "Dr. Wilde Foundation" in his will in 1880 with a capital of 6,000 marks to support needy sick people and poor medical students. His successor as head of the hospital was his nephew, August Wesenberg (1843–1901). In 1880, Wilde became the second honorary citizen of the city of Plau after Ernst Alban .

His friends and patients had a memorial erected for him at the hospital in 1882, which is still preserved. The Plau City Hospital, which was rebuilt and expanded in 1994/95, has served as the elderly care center of the Diakoniewerk Kloster Dobbertin and bears his name: "Dr.-Wilde-Haus".

literature

• Heidemarie and Fred Ruchhöft: Plau in old views , Volume 2, European Library, Zaltbommeln - NL, 1996, ISBN 90-288-6266-8
• Bernd Ruchhöft: From ALBAN to ZIPPE - Remarkable personalities from Plau's town history (previously unpublished)

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Wilde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about Wilhelm Wilde in the state bibliography MV