Georg Schaltenbrand

Georg Schaltenbrand and Georges Schaltenbrand (* November 26, 1897 in Oberhausen, † October 24, 1979 in Würzburg ) was a German neurologist.

Life

Study and first professional years

Georg Schaltenbrand passed the matriculation examination in 1916 at the secondary school in Katowice ( Upper Silesia ) and studied medicine in Breslau, Göttingen, Munich and Hamburg, where he received his doctorate in 1923. Then he met in 1926/27 in Boston, the technique of Neurosurgery ( CSF circulation ) and in 1928 for training at Rockefeller University Beijing. In 1930, he was senior physician at Max nun and ao. Prof. in Hamburg at the University Psychiatric Hospital and the Air Research Institute in Hamburg. From 1934 he worked on the inside and psychiatric clinic of the University of Würzburg. Here he built the neurological department, where he became manager in 1935, and devoted himself to the development of stereotaxy. In 1937 he was appointed Professor of Neurology. In 1941 he became a member of the Leopoldina.

Time of Nationalsozialsimus

Schaltenbrand was a member of the " steel helmet ". In the era of National Socialism, he signed on 11 November 1933, the commitment of the professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler. He was a member of the Nazi Medical Association and the National Socialist People's Welfare and in 1937 joined the NSDAP. As a First Lieutenant, he was also a member of the National Socialist Flying Corps.

Schaltenbrand presented at the Psychiatric Clinic in Werneck, district of Schweinfurt in the spring / summer of 1940 experiments on human beings: he held multiple sclerosis for an infectious disease, which is why he ( CSF) of people with MS transferred cerebrospinal fluid of monkeys. On the assumption that this would meet generates a form of MS, then he injected the cerebrospinal fluid of monkeys back to the patient. For the selection of his subjects to Schaltenbrand said:

"Still, of course, one can not a healthy person or a sick expect such an attempt. But I do think being able to bear the responsibility to make such tests on humans suffering from an incurable perfect imbecility. "

This is funded by the German Research Foundation DFG attempts ended only when the Wernecker patients were transported to extermination in October 1940.

After 1945

Schaltenbrand lost at war's end to people because of these medical tests its position as clinic chief in Würzburg. Soon, however, he was rehabilitated by his colleague Josef Schorn, 1948 Head of the Neurology Department of Psychiatry in Regensburg, and the expert opinion of Viktor von Weizsäcker and 1950 could continue his research.

"If Schaltenbrand experiments conducted on living human beings, then he did it for healing purposes, taking into account the latest scientific methods. "

Later career years

Schaltenbrand in 1950 was a founding member and later honorary member of the " Association of German neuropathologist " 1953-1954 and its chairman. In 1953 he took over the chairmanship of the Medical Advisory Board of the " German Multiple Sclerosis Society ". In 1967 he was honorary chairman of the German Society of Neurology (DGN ). He also worked at the Department of Neurology "Peking Union Medical School " in the People's Republic of China.

1969 Schaltenbrand was given emeritus status. On 24 October 1979, he died in Würzburg.

Honors

  • X- Prize of the University of Würzburg (1943 )
  • Wilhelm Erb Medal of the German Society of Neurology (1954 )
  • Honorary Chairman of the German Society of Neurology (1967 )
  • Honorary Member of the Association of German neuropathologist

Works

  • Foreword to the book by Percival Bailey: The brain tumors, transmitted by Dr. Arnold Weiss, Enke Verlag, Stuttgart, 1936 (reprinted 1951), ISBN B0000BG2JX into German.
  • Production of extrapyramidal movement disorders by Bulbokapnin the Monkey, 1938 ( high school film, produced for the Reich Office for teaching film).
  • Multiple sclerosis of man, 1943
  • Neurology, Part 1-3, publishing Dieterich, Wiesbaden 1948.
  • Limits of the machine theory of the nervous system, General Studies 8, 1955.
  • Time in psychiatric point of view, Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1963, ISBN B0000BPVW4.
  • Specific neurological examination methods, Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1968.
  • Stereotaxy of the Human Brain, co-author A. Earl Walker, Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-13-583202-3.
  • Atlas of the Human Brain for Stereotaxy, co-author Waldemar truth, Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1992.
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