August Bier

August Bier (* November 24, 1861 in Helsen, Waldeck, † 12 March 1949 in sows, Brandenburg ) was a German surgeon and university lecturer. He was also a major forester.

Life

August Bier father was the surveyor Theodor beer. 1881 put beer from the High School at the Old National School Korbach. He studied from 1881 to 1886 medicine at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin, the University of Leipzig and the Christian -Albrechts -University of Kiel. After the exam and the Medizinalassistentenzeit he practiced first as a country doctor. As ship's doctor he came to Central and South America.

Keel

In the Three Emperors year he went as an assistant at the Department of Surgery, Christian- Albrechts- University of Kiel, Friedrich von Esmarch. He habilitated in 1889 at age 28 and became associate professor in 1894.

In Kiel he also began his attempts for local anesthesia with an injection of cocaine solution directly into the spinal canal. He led in 1898 with his assistant August Hildebrandt each other by spinal anesthesia. By injecting cocaine " a strong blow with an iron hammer in the shins [ and ] strong push and pull on testicles " was no longer perceived as painful. Both subsequently developed a pronounced postspinal headache with nausea and vomiting. The American James Leonard Corning 1885 had already made similar experiments and injected into neuraxial structures cocaine. Whether it succeeded spinal anesthesia or the substances were administered only in the band structures is controversial. Following the publication of August Bier, a controversy surrounding the first successful anesthetic procedure of this kind, which claimed both beer and Corning developed. As a result, beer also fell out with his assistant Hildebrandt, who was dissatisfied because beer had not listed him as co-author. Today, Corning is credited with the creation of the experimental and theoretical conditions for spinal anesthesia, beer but the successful application and subsequent establishment of the procedure in the clinic.

Greifswald

Just appointed to the Ernst- Moritz- Arndt- University of Greifswald in 1899, he appendektomierte the young Hans Joachim von Rohr - with the " Mademoiselle " as an assistant on the kitchen table of the manor Demmin.

Bonn

In 1903 he moved as full professor at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität. He operated the St. John's Hospital, because the University of Bonn did not yet have its own operating room.

Berlin

In 1907 he took over in the capital Berlin, the Directorate of the University Surgical Clinic in the brick street. In World War I he was a Marine Advisory Surgeon General Surgeon XVIII. Army Corps ( Deutsches Kaiserreich ). His many hospital visits brought him to the development of the German steel helmet M1916, which was quickly and protected many soldiers from serious head injuries. The Bundeswehr has introduced him again. Beer invented a cupping glass, the vacuum produced not by heating and cooling, but with a suction cup. In the Weimar Republic dedicated beer for physiotherapy and sports. He also grappled with homeopathy. In 1920 he was appointed the first director of the School of Physical Education in Berlin. Carl Diem, whom he H.C. a Dr. med had helped at the Humboldt University, was his deputy. An " operator ", he was actually not. From 1930 until his retirement in 1932 he was chairman of the Berlin Surgical Society.

Forestry

In addition to his medical practice became beer forestry historical significance through its silvicultural work on his Waldgut sows Beeskow in the Mark Brandenburg. Beer was fulfilled in 1912, his desire to make in the forest, through the purchase of 500 acres of good which he later enlarged to 800 hectares. He managed to convert the local run-down Kiefernheide in a site-specific mixed forest. To achieve this, he gave up the previous pine pure stands economy and brought into these monocultures deciduous trees such as chestnut oak, beech, sycamore and lime trees, but also common spruce or Douglas fir. So harmoniously composed mixed stocks originated from deciduous and coniferous trees with shrubs and ground plants. What matters to was the establishment of forest coats, the " forest of warm rock ". This forest conversion, which resulted from many individual steps and try aroused, similar to that developed by Friedrich von Kalitsch " Bärenthorener pine economy" a lot of attention in forestry circles, and the estate sows developed into a center of attraction for many visitors.

After the retirement

1932 emeritus, was beer in his last years near the National Socialism. On 3 / 4 April 1932 he published in the People's Observer a call in favor of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. He received his highest award 1937. During Nazi Party Ferdinand Sauerbruch and he was awarded the prize of 100,000 Reichsmark German National Prize for Art and Science, which should represent a "replacement" for the Nobel Prize, according to regulation. On August 18, 1942 Adolf Hitler appointed him extraordinary member of the Academic Senate of the army medical service. Beer was also co-editor of MMW progress of medicine. Treated beer Hugo Stinnes and Friedrich Ebert. Heraclitus had for him throughout his life of central importance.

He died at 88 years, and was in his forest, the final resting place.

His grandson Jürgen beer was oral surgeon and professor of the University of Berlin.

Honors

• Five honorary doctorates
• German National Prize for Art and Science ( 1937)
• Red Eagle Order Second Class with oak leaves
• Order of the Crown ( Prussia) class II
• Commander's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern.
• August Beer clinic for neurological rehabilitation in Bad Malente
• August Beer Station of Visceral Surgery at the University Hospital Bonn
• August Beer hospital in Lodz (1940-1945)
• Professor Beer Street in Korbach, Helsen, Bonn - Kessenich and Babelsberg
• August Beer way Schreventeich in Kiel
• August Beer place in the Olympic Park Berlin
• August Beer Plaque of the German Sports University in Cologne
• August Beer Prize of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine for " significant work in the field of clinical regional anesthesia ".

After 1990, the high school in Beeskow should be named after him. The failed because that beer had moved closer to his philosophical late work too much of the racial theory of the Nazis.

Foundation Ecology and Medicine

In the 1990s, the beer heir and the European Society founded August beer for Ecology and Medicine eV, the Foundation August Bier for ecology and medicine. Since 1994, she has managed the preserved forest in sows. The Foundation has set up an audio path through the woods and since December 2009, a small information center.