Rosary, helmut

(¤ 1906, † 1967) Dermatologist. Helmut Rosenkranz was born on 3.6.1906 in Kassel as the son of a senior trade instructor. 1912-1923 attended elementary school and secondary school. Since 1943 he worked under Ernst Heinrich Brill in the Rostock Dermatological Clinic as a senior physician. In 1945, after his death at the end of the war, he provisionally took over the management of the clinic and with the opening of the university in 1947 also the teaching duties. Rosenkranz had to cope with the challenges of post-war dermatology under the poor spatial conditions. The central problem in the entire Soviet occupation zone was the compulsory inpatient treatment of all patients with venereal diseases ordered by the Soviet military administration. This meant that about 300 inpatients, including 180 sexually transmitted diseases, had to be treated. As he had no prospect of becoming a professor, he moved to the Elisabeth Sanatorium and the lupus sanatorium in Güterfelde (Stahnsdorf near Berlin) in 1952 as chief physician.