Medical Association of Lübeck

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The Lübeck Medical Association was founded in Lübeck on October 23, 1809 and is the oldest professional medical association in Germany.

history

The history of the origins of the Lübeck Medical Association has two roots, firstly the medical reading society, which was set up in 1805 before the association was founded, and secondly the effects of the Battle of Lübeck in 1806 and the handling of the approximately 3,000 dead and innumerable injuries in this battle at the beginning the Lübeck French period . The Lübeck doctors initially met loosely in the council pharmacy and discussed the joint advice to the city council on how to deal with the critical situation that had arisen. This gave rise to the desire for a solid structure, which was established in October 1809 under the main founders of the Stadtphysicus Theodor Friedrich Trendelenburg (1755–1827) and Georg Heinrich Behn (1773–1855) as the “driving force” with ten other physicians, i.e. all of Lübeck's doctors , was implemented. Underneath

The motto of the foundation of the medical association was:

"A single person does not help, but someone who unites with many at the right hour!"

- Goethe : The fairy tale

  • Trendelenburg (1778 in Göttingen)

  • Behn

  • Leithoff

A similar burden as in 1806 arose for the Lübeck doctors in 1814, when Lübeck took in several of the 30,000 hamburgers that Marshal Davoust had locked out of the Hamburg Fortress at Christmas 1813. With Carstens and Köster, two doctors from Lübeck died of hospital fever during this time and a third, Behn's friend and colleague Matthias Ludwig Leithoff, could only just barely be saved.

In 1909 the association celebrated the first 100 years of its existence. For this anniversary, the first history of the association was published and the 37th German Medical Congress in 1909 took place in honor of the association at its 100th foundation festival in Lübeck.

During the time of National Socialism , the association was dissolved in 1936 as part of the Gleichschaltung . It was re-established in 1945 under the British Military Government, initially as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Medical Association and since restructuring in 1953 has only supported it as a funding purpose in the association's statutes.

With the 62nd German Doctors 'Day in 1959, a Doctors' Day was held in Lübeck for the second time in honor of the association at its 150th foundation festival. On this occasion, Peter Monnik was also honored, a 15th century Lübeck council clerk with a sense for the mentally ill, after whom the Peter-Monnik-Weg in Lübeck was named for the 150th foundation festival of the association.

Today the association has about 450 members and its office at the parade in Lübeck.

Other members (selection)

  • Martini

  • Gütschow

  • Avé-Lallemant

  • from Bippen

  • Linden tree

Library

Institute for the History of Medicine and Science in Lübeck

One of the nucleus of the association was the medical reading society founded in 1805; In 1819 an own library was founded, which was continuously expanded in the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries and was housed in different locations, first in the Ratsapotheke, then in the school college widow's house or Attendornstift at Glockengießerstraße 4 and temporarily also in Courthouse on Grosse Burgstrasse . This library of the Medical Association was acquired by the Lübeck City Library in 1922 through the efforts of its director Willy Pieth . It comprises around 30,000 volumes since the 16th century, and apparently also complete individual scholarly libraries, such as that of Joachim Scholvien (doctorate in 1715), have been preserved. Since 1993, the library has been kept on permanent loan in the library of the Institute for Medical and Scientific History at the University of Lübeck in Königstrasse, together with the old medical holdings from the city library acquired before 1971 .

See also

Publications

  • Lübeck: Festschrift to the participants of the 67th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Doctors, dedicated by the Medical Association and the Natural Science Association in Lübeck. Lübeck: Rahtgens 1895

literature

  • Theodor Eschenburg : The medical association of Lübeck during the first 100 years of its existence 1809-1909 , Wiesbaden 1909
  • Jacob Meyer: The Medical Association of Lübeck: in the years 1909–1934; Continuation of the history of the Medical Association during the first 100 years of its existence by T. Eschenburg, Wiesbaden, 1909 , Rahtgens, Lübeck 1934
  • Kurt Dutte: 150th Foundation Festival of the Lübeck Medical Association: Special print from the July 1959 issue of the Schleswig-Holstein Medical Journal , Wäser, 1959
  • Friedrich von Rohden: The Medical Association of Lübeck: 150 Years of Medical History, 1809–1959 , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1959
  • Friedrich von Rohden: From old Lübeck doctors in: Der Wagen 1960, pp. 83-100
  • Bern Carrière (Ed.): The Medical Association of Lübeck: 175 years of its history, 1809–1984 , Verlag Ärzteverein, Lübeck 1984
  • Rüdiger Kurowski: Medical lectures in the Lübeck Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities 1789–1839: a patriotic society during the Enlightenment and Romanticism , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1995
  • Carsten Groth: Medical Association in: Antjekathrin Graßmann (Ed.): Lübeck-Lexikon , Lübeck 2006

Web links

Commons : Medical Association of Lübeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Schmitt: Development and changes in the objectives, the structure and the effects of the professional associations , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, p. 25 ff.
  2. ↑ Obituary for Georg Heinrich Behn in Neue Lübeckische Blätter dated May 13, 1855, No. 19, pp. 145–149
  3. ^ Friedrich von Rohden: From old Lübeck doctors in: Der Wagen 1960, pp. 84/85
  4. ↑ According to the Lübeck Lexicon
  5. ^ Paul Hagen : Johann Christian Jeremias Martini (1787–1841) , Der Wagen 1931, pp. 15–34
  6. ^ Friedrich von Rohden: From old Lübeck doctors in: Der Wagen 1960, p. 85/87
  7. ^ Friedrich von Rohden: From old Lübeck doctors in: Der Wagen 1960, S. 88/90
  8. ^ Friedrich von Rohden: From old Lübeck doctors in: Der Wagen 1960, p. 91
  9. ↑ Friedrich von Rohden: From old Lübeck doctors in: Der Wagen 1960, p. 92
  10. ^ Friedrich von Rohden: From old Lübeck doctors in: Der Wagen 1960, p. 92/94
  11. ↑ Entry in the manual of the historical book inventory online
  12. ^ Holdings and collections , library of the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Research, accessed on July 1, 2013