Arthur Rühl

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Arthur Rühl II

Arthur Rühl (born January 7, 1901 in Nuremberg , † March 6, 1955 in Munich ) was a German university professor for internal medicine.

Life

Rühl studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and became a member of the Corps Suevia Munich in 1920 . As an inactive , he moved to the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , which made him Dr. med. PhD . When Ludwig Aschoff some publications emerged about diseases of the vascular system . They were of decisive importance for his further scientific work. In 1927/28 he turned to internal medicine and initially worked for the Berlin pharmacologist Paul Trendelenburg . He went to Freiburg to see Hans Eppinger junior , whom he followed to Cologne. He completed his habilitation with him in 1931. When Eppinger was called from Cologne to Vienna, Rühl - now Eppinger's son-in-law - went to the Charité to improve himself in internal medicine with Gustav von Bergmann . In those years, Rühl was primarily concerned with the effects of lack of oxygen. So he became a pioneer in aviation medicine . At the same time, he clarified the circulatory effects of CO 2 anesthesia , which was then used more widely in clinical practice. He soon became senior physician and associate professor (1937).

The fact that he and Bernhard and Heinrich Otto Kalk published the journal therapy at the Berlin university clinics in 1937 made his name widely known. From 1938 to 1945 he was editor of the German Medical Weekly . In 1940 he was appointed to the chair at Karl Ferdinand University as the successor to Fritz Schellong . Until 1945 it was the director of the 2nd Medical Clinic in Prague. After happy years, the little son Sepp was killed by a bomb. His wife's brother and father died in the war. When the Red Army marched into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , Rühl brought his wife Maria and their three daughters to Bavaria in April 1945. He himself returned to Prague out of a sense of duty and was taken prisoner by the Soviets . When many of his comrades were able to return home at the end of 1949, he was sentenced to 25 years of forced labor shortly before his release . In October 1953 he was able to return home. After he had recovered in Kreuth , he decided to accept the offer of the Westphalian Wilhelms University for its chair in internal medicine. After less than a (fulfilled) year, he died of a cerebral haemorrhage at the age of 54 . A few days earlier he had received the message that he wanted to be appointed to the Munich chair.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 159/1645
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Regularity in the alternation of ovarian function .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: About disturbances of oxygen diffusion through capillary walls and how they can be influenced by strophantine .
  4. ^ Ernest Rissel:  Eppinger, Hans, jun. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 551 ( digitized version ). (Marriage of the daughter with Rühl in the genealogy)
  5. ^ A b Hans Karl Müller: Arthur Rühl II . Schwabenbrief No. 51, April – May 1955, pp. 7–9.
personal data
SURNAME Rühl, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1955
Place of death Munich