Wolfgang Schoedel

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Wolf Schoedel (born October 7, 1905 in Chemnitz , † September 21, 1973 in Aldein , South Tyrol ) was a German physiologist.

Life

Schoedel studied medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and in 1927 became a corps bow bearer of the Palatia Strasbourg . In 1933 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . In 1933 he went to the Physiological Institute of the Georg-August University in Göttingen as a scientific assistant . He completed his habilitation in 1938 and was appointed adjunct professor in 1943.

As a member of the SA, Schoedel was the second standard doctor at SA-Standarte 82. In 1937 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party . During the Second World War he was senior physician (= first lieutenant) in the Air Force (Wehrmacht) . At the Aviation Medicine Institute of the Reich Aviation Ministry at the Aviation Physiology Department in Göttingen, he served as a medical officer . Schoedel took part in the conference on medical issues in distress at sea and winter death on October 26 and 27, 1942, where a lecture was also given about the hypothermia tests in the Dachau concentration camp . After the end of the war, Schoedel headed the Physiological Department of the Medical Research Institute of the Max Planck Society in Göttingen from 1948 , later the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine . Schoedel was a member of the Max Planck Society and in 1957 became director of the Göttingen Institute. His main research interests were breathing , metabolism and silicosis .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 227 , 239
  2. Dissertation: Evaluation of the thyrotropic effect of the anterior pituitary gland on the basal metabolic rate
  3. Habilitation thesis: Alveolarluft