Hubertus Strughold (* 15 June 1898; "† 1986 in Texas) were a aviation physician.

Hubertus Strughold was born in Westphalia. It studied medicine in Goettingen, Munich and peppering castle. it attained a doctorate to 1922 in to the Dr. phil. and one year later to the Dr. med. it became an assistant of max of Frey at physiological Institut in peppering castle. 1927 it habilitierte to the sense physiology. In its first lecture on aviation medicine 1928, the first lecture, which gave it ever over this topic, it prognosticated the disbelieving student that a daily thousands of humans would fly over the Atlantic. Charles Lindbergh its legendary transatlantic flight made some weeks later.

Strughold became as an extraordinary professor of beamteter directors/conductors of the aviation-medical research institute of the realm aviation Ministry, prominent aeromedical Institut in Germany. Here all questions of the militarymedical basic and Zweckforschung were treated. Connections to unethischen attempts in concentration camps miss to any basis, nevertheless 1943 a vacuum test row by an external biologist at Strughold Institut at not consentable young people from a psychiatric hospital in Brandenburg were accomplished.

After the Second World War Strughold worked also on the AAF Aeromedical center in Heidelberg, was at the same time a director of the physiological institute and changed 1947 into the USA. It was accused never in connection with LV crimes, to the physician process delivered it explanations in lieu of an oath as a witness.

On 9 February 1949 first Institut for space medicine of the world based with Strughold as first professor for space medicine. Strughold assumed already at that time the medical problems of a space flight, how effect of weightlessness, acceleration and nutrition in the following 10 to 15 years are to be solved, with which it kept right. Strughold prepared the Apollo program from medical side and is considered today as a father of the space medicine.

1983 were lent to it the Order of Merit. The Hubertus Strughold Award is lent to it in honours and 1985 are explained by the senate in Texas a Hubertus Strughold day. The space Medicine Branch of the Aerospace Medical Association assigns the Strughold Award since 1963 to earned scientists in the area of the flight medicine. Nevertheless the German society for air and space travel medicine separated from the science price of the same name 2004, also its name from that internationally space resound to OF Fame in Alamogordo, new Mexico the procedure who ago Brauns following, erased. Strughold was not NSDAP or SS-member.

Works

• Your body clock (1972)
• The Green and talk planet - A Physiological Study OF the Possibility OF Life on Mars (1953)
• Sketch of the aviation medicine (1939)

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Wolfgang Kramer: People attempts of the Nazi Air Force - Second Channel of German Television Frontal21 from 5 November 2002:

• Part 1
• Part 2

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