Hubertus Strughold

Hubertus Strughold ( born June 15, 1898 in Westtünnen in Hamm, Westphalia, † September 25, 1986 in San Antonio / Texas ) was a German aviation medical.

Life

After the final examination at the grammar school in Hamm Hammonense Strughold studied from 1918 medicine and science at the Universities of Münster, Göttingen, Munich and Würzburg. Since 1918 he was a member of the Catholic Student Association AV Cheruscia Münster. In 1922 he received his doctorate in Münster Dr. phil. , A year later in Würzburg for Dr. med theme of the first thesis was " The effect of the agents Diphenylarsinchlorid ( Blue Cross substance ) and Äthylarsindichlorid on the skin of man." As an assistant to Max von Frey Strughold worked at the Institute of Physiology in Wurzburg, later at the same institute in Freiburg. In 1927 he habilitated to sensory physiology. The following two years was Strughold as a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation to the Institutes of Physiology of the Western University in Chicago and Cleveland. Back in Würzburg, he took a teaching position for flight physiology. As of March 8, 1933, he was Associate Professor of Physiology in Würzburg.

On April 1, 1935 Strughold moved to Berlin to the Reich Air Ministry. There he became head of the newly formed Aviation Medical Research Institute, the leading aero-medical institute in Germany. Here all questions of military medicine basic and applied research were treated. From 1936 he was co-editor of the journal " Aerospace Medicine "; the following year he became a corresponding member of the German Academy for Aviation Research.

In October 1942 Strughold was a participant of a meeting that had the rescue in distress pilots to content. At the meeting it was reported on the results of human experiments, which were carried out on prisoners in Dachau concentration camp. These experiments, which constitute serious abuse and in part led to the death of individual prisoners, had been carried out by physicians who Strughold were assumed. 1942 at the Institute of Strughold including by Hans Nachtsheim a vacuum series of experiments carried out on six epileptic children from a psychiatric clinic in Brandenburg -Gorden. In 1944 he was in the rank of colonel doctor Advisory aviation physicians with the chief of the medical service of the Luftwaffe.

After the war Strughold was from October 1945 to February 1947 German Head of Aeromedical Center in Heidelberg, was also the director of the Physiological Institute of the University. He was never charged in connection with Nazi crimes, the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial, he contributed several affidavits for the defense where a defendant at. As part of Operation Paperclip, he joined the U.S. in 1947.

On February 9, 1949, the first Institute for Space Medicine in the world was established, with Strughold as the first professor of space medicine. Strughold went even then assume that the medical problems of space flight, such as effects of weightlessness, acceleration and nutrition would be resolved in the next 10 to 15 years, so he was right. Strughold was then responsible for the medical care of the Apollo program.

In 1983 the Federal Cross of Merit awarded him. In his honor, in 1985 declared by the Senate in Texas a Hubert Strughold tag. The Space Medicine Branch of the Aerospace Medical Association has awarded since 1963 Strughold Award to deserving scholars in the field of aviation medicine. Nevertheless, separated the German Society for Aeronautics and Space Medicine DGLRM by the eponymous Science Award in 2004, and in 2006 its name from the International Space Hall of Fame in Alamogordo (New Mexico ) had been deleted.

Others

The documentary " Nazi criminals on the track - The secret knowledge of the V2" theme Strugholds and von Braun's activities before 1945.

Works

• With Siegfried Ruff: Outline of aviation medicine. J. A. Barth, Leipzig, 1939.
• The Green and Red Planet: A Physiological Study of the Possibility of Life on Mars. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1953.
• Your Body Clock. Charles Scribner 's sons, New York 1971.