Physician, Educator. He received recognition as a German medical professor, researcher into metabolism and circulation, and participated in reopening of Berlin University after 1945. He received his education in Berlin, graduating in 1903 as a physician. He became an associate professor in 1910, and practiced medicine at the Charité Hospital in Berlin prior to and after World War I. During World War I, he served as a physician with the 9th Army in Romania. After serving from 1927 to 1935 as a professor at the University of Halle, he resigned over the change in politics by the Nazi Party in Germany and entered into private practice. Some sources state he did join the Nazi Party. After World War II, he returned to Charite Hospital, which was in East Berlin, spending the rest of his career there. He authored over 19 volumes of medical textbooks. He was the 1954 recipient of the Goethe Prize, and in 1978 was depicted on a 25-pfennig postage stamp issued by the East German government. In 1949 he was named as an Honored Doctor of the People and in 1953 as an Outstanding scientist of the people and he received the silver Patriotic Order of Merit in 1954 followed by the gold version in 1958. In 1956 the state also honored him with the National Prize of East Germany.
Physician, Educator. He received recognition as a German medical professor, researcher into metabolism and circulation, and participated in reopening of Berlin University after 1945. He received his education in Berlin, graduating in 1903 as a physician. He became an associate professor in 1910, and practiced medicine at the Charité Hospital in Berlin prior to and after World War I. During World War I, he served as a physician with the 9th Army in Romania. After serving from 1927 to 1935 as a professor at the University of Halle, he resigned over the change in politics by the Nazi Party in Germany and entered into private practice. Some sources state he did join the Nazi Party. After World War II, he returned to Charite Hospital, which was in East Berlin, spending the rest of his career there. He authored over 19 volumes of medical textbooks. He was the 1954 recipient of the Goethe Prize, and in 1978 was depicted on a 25-pfennig postage stamp issued by the East German government. In 1949 he was named as an Honored Doctor of the People and in 1953 as an Outstanding scientist of the people and he received the silver Patriotic Order of Merit in 1954 followed by the gold version in 1958. In 1956 the state also honored him with the National Prize of East Germany.
Bio by: David Conway
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