Surgical chairs Berlin
From 1816 to 1945 there were two surgical chairs in Berlin . They had an impact far beyond Berlin and established the international reputation of German surgery.
Royal University Surgical Clinic
The clinic in Ziegelstrasse was under the Prussian Crown . In 1818 the construction of a large university clinic began on Ziegelstrasse, in close proximity to the Charité . The Free State of Prussia wanted to dissolve it in 1934. Adolf Hitler, on the other hand, wanted to keep it for National Socialist purposes and rebuild it in Berlin-Westend . Ferdinand Sauerbruch only came to Berlin from Munich because he had been promised both chairs and a new building. With the time of National Socialism the "Chair at Ziegelstrasse" ended; formally, the Charité and the university clinic remained separate institutions. It was not until 1951 that they were united in the German Democratic Republic to form the Medical Faculty (Charité) of the Humboldt University .
Charité
Six years after the Friedrich Wilhelms University was founded , Wilhelm von Humboldt pushed through the establishment of a surgical chair at the Charité (the former “plague house”). From day one, the clinic was strictly scientifically oriented.
As a model institution of the GDR with 2000 beds at the time, Erich Honecker had the high-rise bed building with supply wing built, which went into operation in 1982 and has been renewed since January 2014.
After 1990
After reunification , the West Berlin Rudolf Virchow Clinic and the East Berlin Charité merged in 1997 to form the Charité Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin . In the following year, the associated clinics were also merged. In 2003, the former Benjamin Franklin University Hospital of the Free University of Berlin was added. This created the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin , the largest university hospital in Europe. In 2010 it celebrated its 300th anniversary.
With the (West German) university reform and the specialization in currently eight sub-areas, the powerful professorships and the unit of surgery ended.
literature
- Karl David Wilhelm Busch : Surgical observations, collected in the Royal Surgical University Clinic in Berlin . Reprinted by Nabupress 2011. ISBN 978-1246662023
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard Meyer: November 22, 1886 - Foundation of the Berlin Surgical Society . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 11, 2000, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 70-75 ( luise-berlin.de ). Foundation of the Berlin Surgical Society (1886)
- ↑ Kgl. Surgical University Clinic on Ziegelstrasse
- ↑ a b c Campus Charité Mitte (University Medicine Berlin)
- ↑ a b Message from Helmut Wolff (October 25, 2012)