Education
He studied medicine in Marburg, Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Hamburg, graduating in 1933.
geneticist neurologist psychiatrist university professor
He studied medicine in Marburg, Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Hamburg, graduating in 1933.
He is remembered for his studies of muscular dystrophies. Becker"s muscular dystrophy (OMIM 300376) and Becker myotonia (OMIM 255700) are named after him. Afterwards he trained in neurology and psychiatry in Hamburg and Freiburg.
Between 1934 and 1936 he was attached to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, working under the guidance of Eugen Fischer.
After the war he was dismissed from the University of Freiburg because of the membership in these organisations. However, in 1947 he was formally de-Nazified and has obtained venia legendi at the University of Freiburg.
In 1957 he was appointed professor of human genetics at the University of Göttingen, the post he held until his retirement in 1975.
Sturmabteilung]
Becker was a member of the Société Anonyme (Sturmabteilung) since 1934, and in 1940 he joined the Nazi Party.