Vogel, Arthur Ivanovich

Born in the family of a merchant. After the death of his father (1880), the trading business was liquidated; the mother supported the family at the expense of renting from renting several apartments in their house.

At the end of the St. George's (former Derpt) High School (1896), F. entered the medical faculty of St. George's University (he graduated in 1901); From the 3rd year he combined studies and work in an obstetric polyclinic and a hospital surgical clinic with Professor V. G. Tsege von Mantoifel ^[1] .

Since 1902, under the supervision of surgeon A. Bergman, he worked as an assistant in the surgical department of the Riga City Hospital. Already in 1903, F. successfully performed a wound suturing operation on the heart of the injured person, one of the first of its kind in Russia and the 37th in the world (known from medical literature). Soon he moved to the gynecological and maternity ward of the same hospital.

In October 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, he went to the front as a doctor of the Libava Red Cross detachment, and for a year he worked as the head of the surgical department of the detachment in Harbin. From January to July 1906 he was in Germany for advanced training; worked in the clinics of Bergman, Guildenbrandt, Curt, Hoff (Berlin), Paint, Krenig, Kilian (Freiburg).

In September 1906 - November 1908 he headed the surgical department at the factory hospital of the Russian-Belgian Metallurgical Society in Yenakievo, Ekaterinoslav Bay. Since January 1909, the chief doctor and surgeon of the Omsk city hospital (elected by competition from 125 applicants for the position). By this time, the hospital had 95 beds, three departments (infectious, therapeutic, venereological), a little later F. opened a surgical department. In 1910, at the initiative of F., an X-ray room appeared in Omsk. Overhaul was carried out in the hospital building, warm toilets were arranged for patients, separate dressing and sterilization rooms were built. In 1911, the entire hospital was electrified; the first city pharmacy was opened at it. F. remained the chief physician of the city hospital until 1923, when he became only the head of the surgical department (he remained in office until 1932). In 1909-27, 16 thousand operations were performed in the hospital, of which F. performed 10,785.

In 1915, F. organized his own surgical hospital with 12 beds, for this he bought two houses on the street. Tobolsk in Omsk. After the reconstruction of the premises, 30 beds were located here. In June 1920, the Siberian Department of Health took control of the F. hospital, assigning it the name “Model Surgical Hospital at Sibzdrav”, but 10 beds remained the property of F. When the Omsk Medical Institute was organized in 1921, F. was elected head of the department of operative surgery, and participated as a consultant in the organization of institute clinics. In 1922, F. tried to obtain Estonian citizenship: his mother and sisters Wanda and Helen lived in Estonia. In 1923, F.'s houses were nationalized, his hospital passed into the jurisdiction of the Gubzdrav, later the city health department, in 1930 was transferred to the Omsk city committee of the Russian Red Cross Society (ROCC). At the same time, from 1926, F. consulted at the physiotherapy hospital of the health department of the Omsk Railway, and from 1934 - at the regional medical commission. He was a member of the Presidium of the city committee of the ROKK (1934-35), the Plenum of the regional committee of the ROKK (since 1936); Deputy Chairman of the Surgical Section (1932) and Deputy Chairman (1934) of the Socialist Health Care Society. F. maintained contacts with the Lutheran community of Omsk. At the request of the community in 1925, F. F. Meyer, superintendent general of the Moscow Lutheran Consistory, lived in F.'s apartment. In 1926, pastors stayed here, sent by the Consistory to Siberia, among them - F. I. Merts. During the period of mass emigration of Germans to Canada in the late 1920s. F. enjoyed especially great popularity, since for leaving the USSR it was required to have a medical certificate for all family members. In October 1938, F. was arrested on charges of espionage in favor of Germany and Estonia (F. was familiar with the German Consul in Siberia, who visited Omsk in 1925, V. Grosskopfom), was detained in Omsk prison. The visiting session of the Military Tribunal of the Siberian Military District on August 26, 1939 sentenced F. Krasstrel. On January 5, 1940, by a decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, the case against F. was terminated due to insufficient collected evidence, and he was soon released. During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-15, F. put a lot of effort to save the wounded; He was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War." The last years of his life he headed the surgical department of the hospital of the Leninsky district of Omsk. He was married three times : from 1906, widowed in 1912; from 1920, divorced in 1931. From his second marriage he had a daughter Erica (July 13, 1920–?), after the divorce he bought a house for the family in the Crimea, married his student Ekaterina Nikolaevna Andronova for the third time in Omsk, and transferred the family from Crimea during the Second World War to Omsk, where both families lived in the same house. Ekaterina Nikolaevna was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for the evacuation of the wounded during the Second World War, and with the repeated arrest of A. Vogel, this very fact helped to avoid his execution. ^[2] .

• Libgott, E.G. 25 years of medical activity of A.I. Vogel // "Work Path" of March 17, 1927
• Libgott, E. G. Regarding the 25th anniversary of the medical, scientific and social activities of A. I. Fogel // Omsk Medical Journal, 1927, N 5-6
• Rabinovich M. S. The 35th Anniversary of the Surgeon A. I. Vogel // Omskaya Pravda, June 11, 1937
• Obituary // Omsk Pravda, September 18, 1948
• Cherkazyanova I.V. A. I. Vogel - the founder of the surgical business in Omsk // Germans. Russia. Siberia. - Omsk, 1997