Berlin Medical Society
The Berlin Medical Society was founded on October 31, 1860. It was created by the association of the Society for Scientific Medicine with the Association of Berlin Doctors .
The pharmacologist Ivar Roots has been the chairman since 2014 , and before that it was the microbiologist Helmut Hahn . The office is located in the Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus in Berlin . Since 1980, the society has been awarding the Albrecht von Graefe Medal at irregular intervals to doctors who have achieved outstanding achievements in medical science, research and teaching .
Chairperson
- 1860–1870: Albrecht von Graefe (ophthalmologist)
- 1871–1882: Bernhard von Langenbeck (surgeon)
- 1882–1902: Rudolf Virchow (pathologist)
- 1902–1907: Ernst von Bergmann (surgeon)
- 1907–1911: Hermann Senator (internist)
- 1911–1922: Johannes Orth (pathologist)
- 1922–1930: Friedrich Kraus (internist)
- 1930–1933: Alfred Goldscheider (internist)
- 1933–1938: Carl von Eicken (otorhinolaryngologist)
- 1938–1941: Richard Siebeck (internist)
- 1941–1945: Friedrich Umber (internist)
- 1950–1954: Wolfgang Heubner (pharmacologist)
- 1954–1973: Hans Freiherr von Kress (internist)
- 1974–1981: Heinz Herken (pharmacologist)
- 1981–1994: Karl-Otto Habermehl (virologist)
- 1994–1997: Ernst-Otto Riecken (internist)
- 1997–2000: Heinz-Peter Schultheiss (internist)
- 2000–2014: Helmut Hahn (microbiologist)
- since 2014: Ivar Roots (pharmacologist)
literature
- H. Goerke: The history of the Berlin Medical Society 1860-1960 , in: Festschrift 100 years of the Berlin Medical Society. October 26, 1960. Special issue of the German medical journal (1960), pp. 3-16.
- Eberhard Neumann-Redlin von Meding , Hella Conrad: Doctors under the swastika. The Berlin Medical Society under National Socialism , ed. from the Berlin Medical Society. Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2013 ISBN 978-3-89773-718-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Berlin Medical Society> Association. Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
- ^ The Albrecht von Graefe Medal and its background