ITEM No. 24 
FILE No. XXIX-2 
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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 
UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG 
COMBINED INTELLIGENCE OBJECTIVES SUB-COMMITTEE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG 
Reported by: 
Comdr. CHARLES A.W. UHLS. (MC), US1® 
CIOS Target No. 24/141 
Medical 
COMBINED INTELLIGENCE OBJECTIVES SUB-COMMITTEE 
G-2 Division, SHAEF (Rear) APO 413 
p. 1485 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
I INTRODUCTION 
II INSTITUE OF ROENTGENOLOGY 
III DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY 
IV DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE 
V DEPARTMENT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY 
VI DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY 
VII DEPARTMENT OF BIO-CHEMISTRY 
VIII INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY 
DC INSTITUTE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE 
2 SUMMARY OF DATA OF POSSIBLE IMPORTANCE 
University of Leipzig 
VI Department of Physiology. 
The Reichswehr (technical division for tanks, tank destroyers 
and artillery) was interested in Gerstner's work on the effect 
of loud tones and overtones in the ear and the application of 
the result of this work to modifications in equipment, 
VII Institute of Physiological Chemistry. 
Professor Karl Thomas lias concluded that synthetic fat 
has biologic value. 
2a I Introduction 
The group of buildings comprising the Medical department of the 
University of Leipzig is situated on Ledbigstrasse and is known as 
St. Jacob*s City Hospital. In December 19l;3> following the bombing,. qSj, 
an accessory hospital -was opened in Hochweits'cnen aBou!!B™ 
MTeSoutside of Leipzig* This was staffed by the assistants primarily 
with the professors acting in the capacity of visiting consultants. 
The equipment was obtained from the various Medical departments of 
the University and most of the professors moved their personal 
libraries including reprints and research data to this area. It has 
not been bombed and at the time of this report is within Russian controlled 
territory, 
St. Jacobs City Hospital is approximately 50$ destroyed. There 
is no teaching at present but the various main clinics for hospital 
and dispensary patients are functioning, (Medicine, Surgery, 
Dermatalogy, Roentgenology, Radiology). The departments of ophthalmology 
and Dentistry are critically wrecked and not functioning at present. 
The main library of the University of Leipzig is completely 
bombed out. 
My investigation was conducted between May 25th and June 1st, 19U5* 
II Institute of Roentgenology and Radiology. 
Interview with Professor Willie Baensch. 
(a) The X-Ray building is approximately 30$ destroyed. 
(b) Equipment. Four diagnostic and four therapy machines are in 
use* There were four diagnostic machines and 2 therapy 
machines burned out by bombing. Radium available 150 mgm. 
(c) Patients examined and treated in 19UU numbered about 55,000. 
In 19khy about 10,000 cancer patients were seen. Sunce April 
19U5j daily census of patients seen per day averages 350, 
prior to April the average was 150. This increase is 
the result of air raids according to Baensch. 
(d) He has not conducted any special research recently. He is 
particularly interested in the study of Gastric tonus and 
the filming of Gastric mucosa. 
(e) He estimates that lU$ of civilians working in factories 
and 8 to 10$ of Army personnel had gastric or duodenal ulcers. 
(f) Documents were removed from the premises: 
(1) Radiological studies on the function of the stomach. 
(Unpublished). 
(2) Abnome endokranielle Verkalkung. 
(Nadelformige Schatten im Gehirnmantel). 
Sonderdruck aus f,Rontgenpraxistr, Georg Thiem, Leipzig, 191U;. 
3 Department of Surgery. 
Interview with Professor William Hieder. 
(a) Building about 35$ destroyed. 
(b) Researches limited to clinical work. I4 
(1) He has used the technique of Gerhard Kuntscher in 
which a long pin is driven into the medullary cavity 
of the fractured bone. He feels that this new method 
of internal fixation of fractures is especially well 
suited to fractures involving the femur and tibia. 
However more conservative measures should be tried 
first. He has limited experience with external 
fixation of fractures using the technique called 
"OSSIDUKT", which was introduced by Dr. Raoul 
Hoffmann of Geneva. Hoffmann!s apparatus is similar 
to the Stader and Roger-Anderson apparatus and 
is manufactured by Heinr C. Ulrich Ulm-Donau. 
The technique is described in Der Chirurg, Volume 
IV and IX, 19iP-. 
(2) He has no innovations in the treatment of shock, 
burns, infections, intestinal obstruction. 
(3) In operations of short duration (i.e. Appendectony) 
he frequently uses the 1st stage of ether 
anaesthesia. He stated that analgesia just prior 
to the 2nd stage can be maintained and adequate 
relaxation obtained. 
(c) Professor Erwin Payr is 7U years old, has retired and 
does not live in Leipzig. 
(d) Documents were removed from the premises. 
(1) The original reprint of ’’Technik der Marknagelung" 
Gerhard Kuntscher and Richard Maatz, 19U5 Georg 
Thiem, Leipzig. 
(2) Deutsche Ztschr F. Chirurgie; Unsere Indikation 
Zur .Marknagelung der langen Rohrknocken, Prof., 
Dr. W._Rieder, 2$1 Bd., 7 and 8 Heft 19U3, SUl5-1M. 
(3) fur Chirurgie; Rontgenologische 
Beobachtungen uber die Verweildauer verschiedener. Ti. 
Kontrastspeisen un reszierten ulcusmagen. Prof 
(il) Die Medizinische We It 5 Neuere Anschaungen uber 
die Endangitis Obliterans und ihre Behandlung 
Prof., William Reider, Jahrg XIII, Nr. ll; S. U79 
1939. 
(£) Catalogue reprints of Heinr C. Ulrich, Ulm-Donau 
(a) Oasidukt (external fixation apparatus for 
fractures). . 
(b) Magen und Darranah apparat (Metal clip technique 
for closure of intestines and stomach). IV Department of Internal Medicine. 
Interview with Professor M. Burger. 
(a) Buildings about $0% destroyed. 
(b) His research work has been primarily clinical in type. 
His chief interest is metabolism as it relates to the aging 
process from birth to death. 
(c) There have been about 35 cases of Typhoid fever in his 
clinic recently, and an occasional case of typhus. He 
sees an occasional case of primary atypical pneumonia 
and treats about 500 cases of pneumonococcus pneumonia 
per year. Sulfathiazole used, with low mortality rate. 
He has never heard of Badional (sulfathiourea) in the 
treatment of pulmonary Tbc. A few cases of malaria have 
been treated with Atabrine. Santochin is little known in 
Germany. He was enthusiastic about Marfanil in the 
treatment of early gas gangrene in which it is used 
topically and parenterally. He stated that Military surgeons 
were using it with increasingly better results and 
combining it with gas bacillus serum. Amputations in many 
cases were averted. Marfanil (Bayer, I.G. Farbenindustry 
A.G.) is chemically: 
s-CD- cVt./va'j, //e-e. 
The German authority on gas bacillus infections is 
Professor Zeissler, Stadt, Krankenhaus, Altona, near 
Hamburg. 
(d) The authority in Germany on Malarial drug treatment id 
Professor Schuleman (erroneously spelled Schumann in my 
target data). He is a pharmacologist and is under arrest 
at present for being an SS member. 
(e) He has had much experience with infectious hepatitis but 
has developed no new treatment. In diagnosis he prefers the 
Gros reaction because it can be fractionated. He has been 
able to infect the canary bird with the virus obtained 
from the urine of the patients. 
(f) Since 19U2, there have been more gastric ulcers than 
duodenal. Prior to 19U2, the reverse was true. No 
explanation available. He treats ulcers by high caloric 
multiple feedings. 
(g) Documents were removed from the premises: 
(1) Klim Wochenschrift, lfEine net/e, einfache 
Flockungsreaktion mit HayeMscher Losung, Dozent 
Walther Gros, Jahrg 18, N122 S?8l, June 3 1939* (2) Klin Wochenschrift, "Zur Atiologie der Hepatitis 
Epidemica" Werner Siede and Karl Luz, Jahrg 22, 
Nv4, S70, January 23, 1943* 
(3) Ztschr, F0 Altersforschung, Band V, Heft 1 Sep- 
tember 1944* Dr, E. Abderhalden and Dr. M, Burger. 
(4) Handbuch der Inneren Medizin, Ernahrungs stbrungen. 
Dr, M, Burger, Berlin 1944* 
(5) Ztschr fur Altersforschung, ,rUber die Okonomie 
korperlicker Arbeit in den Verschiedenen, Alters- 
stufeny Dr, M, Burger Band IV Heft 3, 1943* 
(6) Ztschr F, Klinische Medizin, Uber die Anpassung 
des Menschen an chronischen Sauerstoffmangee, 
Karl Matthes, 143 Band, 2 Heft, 1943o 
(7) Deutscheztschr* F, Verdauurigs und Stoffwechsee 
Krankheiten, Dr, M, Burger Band 6 Heft 4, und 5, 
1942. 
(B) Chemotherapie bakterieller Infektionen, Dr, Gerhard 
Domagk 1944, Photostatic copy, 
V Department of Ophthalmology. 
Interview with Professon Adolph Jess, 
(a) The building is 40$ bombed out with loss of much equipment 
and valuable optical instruments. Library intact. All 
reprints were burned, 
(b) Professor Jess1 specialty has been the operation of 
corneal transplant with which he has about a 40$ take. 
He preserves the cornea (not longer than 24 hours) prior 
to transplantation in 2$ formalin and N, sodium chloride 
solution. 
(c) No special research during the war, 
(d) No documents removed, 
VI Department of Physiology, 
Interview with Dozent Dr, H, Gerstner, 
(a) Professor M, Gildemeister died in 1943* Gerstner is 
carrying on with Gildemeister1s research work, 
(b) Dr, Ph,, H. Koch not at this institute, 
(c) The professor of Physiology, Kurt Krammner, is a war 
prisoner, 
(d) The building is 60$ destroyed with loss of much equipment. 
There are no research animals available. The laboratory 
has not been functioning since February, 1945# 
6 (e) Two research problems have been conducted; further work 
is necessary in both. 
(1) Resistance of the human skin to the alternating 
current. Many original observations have been 
burned with the bombing. Resistance is measured 
in tone and also on a kymograph. Reprint available. 
He has found a difference in reaction between 
the skin of old people and the young, between the 
healthy and the sick. Cancer patients fehow changes 
in skin resistance but too few cases have been 
studied. Patients with psoriasis have high skin 
resistance whereas with eczema there is little 
resistance, 
(2) Gildemeister started experiments on the effect of 
loud tones and overtones in the ear, Geratner 
has continued this work measuring the intensity 
of tone and overtone in their relationship to 
deafness. Reprint available. Gerstner’s results 
were given to the technical division of the 
Reichwehr (Artillery, tanks, tank destroyers), 
but he states that he was not told nor permitted 
to know what modifications for the prevention of 
overtones were made in equipment, 
(f) No work conducted on air or sea sickness, night blindness, 
fatigue. No supersonic studies, et cetera, 
(g) Gerstner stated that the physiology of the eye and ear 
has been poorly developed in Germany, 
(h) Documents were removed, 
(1) Pflugers arch,, Das elektrische Leitvermogen der 
Haut als Grenzflachenproblem H,, Gerstner., Bd 248, 
S120, 1-3 Heft, 1944.. 
(2) Pflugers arch,, untersuchungen uber Permeabilital 
und Wechselstroraraebgrossen H,, Gerstner, Bd 246, 
1 Heft, November 1941. 
(3) Pflugers arch,. Die Schallstarkesehwelle des 
Preyerschen Ohmuschelreflexes. H. Gerstner, Band 
246, 2 Heft June 1942. 
(4) Ztschrft F, Hals, Nasen und Ohrenheilkunde Experi- 
mentelle Untersuchungen uber die Innenohrschadigung 
durch Schall £8 Band, 5 Heft, 1942, VII Institute of Physiological Chemistry, 
Interview with Professor Karl Thomas, 
(a) Building 60$ damaged by bombs. No research donducted 
since February, 1945• 
(b) Research data, equipment, library and reprints partially 
destroyed, 
(c) Since 1939, he has been permitted to publish about 5 
articles (no reprints available). His department was 
under the direct supervision of a central Nazi office in 
Berlin which permitted him to follow only certain forms of 
chemical analysis in reference to the Metabolism of 
synthetic fat, 
(d) He obtained his fats from a soap factory in Witten on the 
Ruhr, (Markische Seifenfabrik), He studied the biological 
absorption and metabolism of fat. He found that the fatty 
acids are oxidized when taken by mouth and are excreted 
in different forms in the urine and feces, 
Thomas himself ingested 300 Grams of pure synthetic fat 
per day over a four day period with no untoward effects. 
In experiments with pure straight chain odd numbered 
carbon acids, 100$ utilization was noted. Therefore the 
incomplete utilization in the synthetic fat is not due 
to the presence of the odd numbered fatty acids. It was 
later found that branch chain fatty acids were present 
in the synthetic fat and that the poor utilization was 
related to this fact. The normal level in the urine of 
succinic acid was raised from 2 mgm, to 20-40 mgm, 
/irtre when synthetic fat was ingested. Synthetic fat has 
biologic Value but further research is necessary. No 
documents removed, 
VIII Institute of Pathology. 
Interview with Professor Werner Hueck. 
(a) Professor Hueck is a prisoner of war but permitted to 
work in St, George1s and St. Jacob*s Hospital, These are 
the only pathologic laboratories functioning in the Leipzig 
area, 
(b) No research during the war. The institute is fairly well 
preserved. The foof was badly burned and 10,000 specimens 
on the top floor were destroyed. The library is preserved 
in Steinbach, 
(c) Dr, Schurman is not in this institute, 
(d) Hueck*s primary interest has been devoted to the histologic 
structures of benign and malignant tumors and to the gross 
and microscopic investigation of rheumatism. 
8 (e) Documents were removed, 
(1) Ztschrf fur Rheumaforschung. MZur Begriffsbes- 
timmung rheumatischer Erkrankungen", Hochrein 
and W, Hueck 7 Jahrg, Heft 10, 1944* 
(2) Book - Rheumatic Diseases by composite group of 
Authors edited by M, Hochrein. Published 1942, 
IX Institute of Veterinary Medicine, 
Interview with the Director, Professor Eberhard Ackerknecht, 
(a) No new research. The institute has been destroyed very 
little, 
(b) During the war, Ackerknecht finished a large book on 
"Anatomy of the Horse", 
(c) No documents removed.