Heinrich Adolf Gottron

Heinrich Adolf Gottron ( born March 10, 1890 in Oppenheim, † June 23, 1974 in Mainz ) was a German dermatologist.

Life

Gottron studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg, Berlin, Munich, Heidelberg, Leipzig and Bonn. In 1916 he received his doctorate. During the First World War he served as a military doctor, his last rank was that of a colonel doctor.

In 1919 he went to the Charité in Berlin, his habilitation in 1930 with a thesis on Majocchis purpura and was there from 1933 Adjunct Professor.

1935 took over Gottron the chair of dermatology at the University of Breslau, which had established worldwide under Albert Neisser and Joseph Jadassohn one of the leading skin clinics. His predecessor Max Jessner had been forced to resign because of his Jewish ancestry. In 1939 he was served with head physician of Dermatology, University Hospital.

Gottron 1937 the NSDAP had joined. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the resultant in November 1942 the German Society for Research constitution. The authorized representatives of the health care Karl Brandt, he was from 1944, member of the scientific advisory board.

From 1946 until his retirement in 1961 Gottron was a professor of dermatology at the Eberhard -Karls- University of Tübingen, where chief physician of the Dermatology Clinic. He was also a co-founder in 1949 of the Society for Research constitution and was one of the major dermatologists after the war.

Honors

Was named after him, the Acrogeria Gottron ( Gottron 's syndrome), which was first described by him in 1941, and five other skin disorders.

Writings

• Posts in: Joseph Jadassohn (ed.): Manual of Skin and Venereal Diseases. 23 volumes. Springer, Heidelberg 1927-1934.
• Posts in: Leopold doctor, Karl Zieler (ed. ): The skin and venereal diseases: A summary of the practice. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna, 1934.
• Walther Schönfeld, Dermatology and Venereology. Including occupational diseases, dermatological cosmetics and Andrology. 5 volumes in 10 sub- volumes. Thieme, Stuttgart from 1958 to 1970.
• Non inflammatory dermatoses I. Springer, Heidelberg 1963.
• Inheritance of skin diseases. Springer, Heidelberg 1966.
• Non inflammatory dermatoses II Springer, Heidelberg 1969.