Bruno Balke

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Albert HL Bruno Balke (born September 6, 1907 in Braunschweig , † June 7, 1999 in Grand Junction (Colorado) ) was an American physiologist of German origin.

Life

After completing his school career, Balke first completed training as a gymnastics and sports teacher at the German University for Physical Education in Berlin. He then studied medicine at the University of Berlin and received his license to practice medicine in 1936. Balke then worked for the sports medicine department of the University of Berlin until 1942. After his assistantship he received his doctorate in 1937. med. in Berlin, the title of his dissertation was "On pulmonary hemorrhages of cardiac origin, especially mitral stenosis". Balke then took part in the German Nanga Parbat Expedition in 1938 as a scientist and attending physician .

During the Second World War , Balke was used as a physiologist, medical officer in the Wehrmacht . After the attack on the Soviet Union , Balke contracted hepatitis from a gunshot wound . From 1942 he then worked as a medical officer at the Army Mountain Medical School in St. Johann in Tirol . Balke took part in the conference on medical questions in distress at sea and winter death on February 26 and 27, 1942 in Nuremberg , where a lecture was also given on the "attempts at hypothermia" in the Dachau concentration camp . Balke carried out experiments on "hemopoietins". He habilitated himself in 1945 at the University of Leipzig , his habilitation thesis was not published.

After the end of the war, Balke continued to work in Tyrol. Balke emigrated to Randolph Air Force Base in the USA in 1950 as part of Operation Paperclip , where he worked at the School of Aviation Medicine until 1960 . From 1960 to 1964 he was a senior executive in the Human Biodynamics Section of the Civil Aeromedical Research Institute of the Federal Aviation Agency in Oklahoma City . From 1964 until his retirement in 1973, Balke was professor of physiology at the University of Wisconsin . From 1965 to 1966, Balke was President of the American College of Sports Medicine and from 1969 to 1973 Senior Editor of the Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports . In particular, Balke researched the physiology of humans at extreme altitudes and heart disease and was involved in the development of fitness programs. After his retirement, Balke moved to Aspen . Balke was married to Annemarie, nee Anaker. The couple had three sons and a daughter.

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  1. ↑ a b c d Francis Nagle, Jerome Dempsey, William Morgan: MEMORIAL RESOLUTION OF THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON - ON THE DEATH OF PROFESSOR EMERITUS ALBERT HL BRUNO BALKE . In: Faculty Document 1456, November 1, 1999, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 25f
  3. ↑ Bruno Balke, Ph.D., MD  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.healthylearning.com@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.healthylearning.com  
personal data
SURNAME Balke, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balke, Albert HL Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physiologist and university professor of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1999
Place of death Grand Junction, Colorado