Bernhard Braun (entrepreneur)

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Bernhard Braun (born June 1, 1906 in Melsungen ; † December 31, 1993 there ) was a German doctor, chemist and entrepreneur. In 1962 he invented the plastic peripheral venous catheter .

Life

Braun was born as the third son of the pharmacist and manufacturer Carl Braun . After completing his studies at the Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Philipps University in Marburg in Marburg, he studied medicine in Leipzig .

In 1937 he left Leipzig and took over the scientific management of his father's company, while his brother Otto worked as the commercial director of the same pharmaceutical and medical supplies company B. Braun Melsungen . The first absorbable, synthetic suture material, Synthofil, was developed . At the end of the Second World War , Braun fell into American captivity and was used as a doctor in a hospital. After returning to Melsungen, he rebuilt the company and created the essential prerequisites for turning the 500-employee company into a global companywith 35,000 employees and an annual turnover of 3.5 billion euros (as of 2007). With his company he got into infusion technology, replaced the materials used at the time, glass and metal, with plastics , thereby making disposable medical devices possible for the first time . In 1962 the Braunüle , the first flexible intravenous cannula, came onto the market.

Honors

  • Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class (May 12, 1971)
  • Federal Cross of Merit (May 18, 1976)
  • Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star (May 13, 1986)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ U. Viehöver: Die InfluenceReichen. Henkel, Otto et al. Co. - Anyone who has money and power in Germany . Campus, 2006, ISBN 3-593-37667-9 .
  2. ↑ a b c Information from the Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Melsungen
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1993
Place of death Melsungen