Wilhelm von Drigalski
Wilhelm von Drigalski (born June 21, 1871 in Dresden , † May 12, 1950 in Wiesbaden ; full name Karl Rudolf Arnold Arthur Wilhelm von Drigalski ) was a German bacteriologist who worked as a city medical advisor and Prussian chief medical officer for the Landwehr .
family
Drigalski was the son of the Prussian captain and editor Arthur von Drigalski (1834–1897) and Minna von Drigalski born. Kuhn (1840-1900).
On March 5, 1905, he married the writer Liesbet Dill , daughter of the Dudweiler estate and brewery owner Friedrich Wilhelm Dill and Elisabeth Dill, born in Wiesbaden . Bottler, and with her fathered the daughter Leonore (* 1907) and the son Wolfgang von Drigalski (1907–1943).
Life
Drigalski obtained his school-leaving certificate in 1890 and then studied at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for military medical education . In 1895 he received his doctorate from the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . Then he was a medical officer until 1907 .
In 1905 Drigalski was appointed titular professor. In the following year he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Hanover , followed in 1907 by the rehabilitation at the University of Halle . During the First World War , he was used in the Balkans and on the Western Front , among other places . From 1915 to 1916 he was a governor in Brussels .
In 1919 he joined the German Democratic Party . Since 1921 he was busy with the registration of so-called " feeble-minded " families and since 1923 gave lectures on racial hygiene . From 1925 to 1933 he headed the public health service in Berlin. On June 12, 1927, the founding meeting of the Association of Public Marriage Counseling Centers took place under his chairmanship. Because of his absence, the University of Halle revoked his teaching license in 1937 . In the following years he worked as a ship's doctor as well as a company doctor and general practitioner . After the Second World War he was Ministerialrat in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior .
The Drigalski spatula was named after him, which in microbiology is used to smear a sample, for example. B. is used on a gel medium located in a Petri dish. It is made of glass, metal or plastic.
literature
- Wilhelm Katner: Drigalski, Wilhelm von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 144 ( digitized version ).
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B volume XVI, page 179, volume 86 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984, ISSN 0435-2408 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm von Drigalski in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Wilhelm von Drigalski in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Lissmann: Liesbet Dill. A writer from Saarland (1877-1962) . BoD - Books on Demand, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-3254-3 , p. 21.
- ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd updated edition, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 120.
- ^ Archives for Social Hygiene and Demography 2 (1926/27) 550.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drigalski, Wilhelm von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Drigalski, Karl Rudolf Arnold Arthur Wilhelm von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bacteriologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1950 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |