[For money, faith and honor : Albrecht Notthafft v. Weißenstein's splendor and downfall].

The professionalization of medical specialists and the question of correct ethical behavior in a dynamic world were important topics of discussion in the German Empire. In 1910, the debates within the medical profession culminated in a dispute, which the Munich physician Albrecht Notthafft of Weissenstein started and after which, although his own academic career ended, the necessity of professionalizing medical training was finally acknowledged. At the same time, the debate of 1910 represents the end of aristocratic interference in bourgeois medical affairs.