Cimmel, joseph

(¤ 1909, † 1976) Dermatologist, working in Kiel, Leipzig, Hamburg. Born on 31.1.1909 in Bad Griesbach in the Black Forest, he took his school leaving examination in Sasbach. Studied chemistry with Wieland in Munich. There he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. nat. in 1938. Second study of medicine in Kiel. 1942 Doctorate in medicine. In addition to his medical studies, he synthesized about 2000 chemical substances, mostly sulfonamides, in the laboratories of the Dermatological Clinic in Kiel. Kimmig followed Josef Vonkennel to Leipzig. After Kriesgsende, he went to Heidelberg as senior physician at the University Dermatology Clinic. There (with Walther Schönfeld) he completed his habilitation in 1948. 1951 appointment to the University Dermatology Clinic Hamburg as successor to Alfred Marchionini. In Hamburg he was able to complete the new building of the Dermatology Clinic begun by his predecessor Marchionini. He later declined honorary appointments to Heidelberg and Freiburg. Scientific focus: Chemotherapy of dermato-venerological diseases; mycoses, skin tuberculosis. Little known is the fact that Kimmig, together with Josef Vonkennel and Lembke, isolated a first antibiotic from a penicillin strain "Mycoine", which he successfully used for infectious diseases.