German Society for Urology

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German Society for Urology
(DGU)
Logo of the DGU
purpose Medical Society for Urology
Chair: Maurice-Stephan Michel
Establishment date: 1906
Seat : Dusseldorf
Website: www.urologenportal.de

The German Society for Urology e. V. ( DGU ) is a German scientific association for urology founded in Stuttgart in 1906 with headquarters in Düsseldorf .

history

The association was founded on September 16, 1906 in Stuttgart. This falls into the period of the further differentiating scientifically oriented medicine at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century .

Since 1867, urologists have met for a scientific exchange on an international level within the framework of the "General Medicine Congresses" that were established in the wake of the second world exhibition in Paris .

In 1871, the establishment of the German Society for Surgery offered initially operative doctors a platform for professionalized scientific exchange.

In the German-speaking world, the “ Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors ” (GDNÄ), founded in Leipzig in 1822 in Leipzig by the natural philosopher and physician Lorenz Oken (1779–1851), is the parent company in the age of constantly expanding and perpetuating scientific communication as a result of the Enlightenment On the initiative of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), differentiated organizationally and scientifically from 1828 through the formation of sections.

On the "68. Naturforscherversammlung ”in September 1896 in Frankfurt am Main, around 10 to 15 urologists (including Berg, Frank, Goldberg, Kollmann, Kümmell, Küster, Kulisch, Nitze, Mankiewitz) met for the first time at the suggestion of the Dresden dermatologist Felix Martin Oberländer (1849 –1915) with the aim of “getting closer to the founding of a urological specialist society”, but without being successful in the next few years.

In the same year 1896 the French Society for Urology was founded, in 1902 the American Urological Association, to which several German-speaking urologists, including Leopold Casper and Maximilian Nitze , immediately belonged as honorary members.

Only after the death of Inaugurators the practical cystoscopy (cystoscopy), Maximilian Nitze (1848-1906), was then on the 78th scientific congress in Stuttgart on 16 September 1906, the founding of the German Society of Urology realized. The initiative came in particular from the Berlin School of Urology, in which the Jewish educational elite was disproportionately represented, such as Leopold Casper (1859–1959) and Carl Posner (1848–1926). The group of founding members already reflected the interdisciplinary functional-organ-related interests with an international focus - in a modern way from andrology to operative urology and oncology to cytology with a focus on endoscopy and minimally invasive interventions - and clearly shows the individual, the closer interdisciplinary, networks and communication contexts of the respective protagonists . At the same time, this heterogeneous grouping refutes the still held thesis that urology has split off from surgery .

In addition to representatives from operative medicine and surgery such as

represented as founding members. Initially, all board positions were filled twice with members of the German Reich and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . The congresses should take place alternately in Berlin and Vienna.

The American-German exchange of knowledge was established by the German-born Americans Carl Beck (1856–1911), Willy Meyer (1858–1932) and the nestor of American urology Hugh Hampton Young (1870–1945) at this early stage.

The first congress of the newly founded German Society for Urology was held for the 2nd to 5th Summoned to Vienna in October 1907. The number of members rose from 38 founding members to 250 within one year, which illustrates the special interest in the field as a cross-sectional subject of medicine and the special desire for exchange. The members and speakers came not only from the German-speaking countries (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland), but also from the USA, Holland, France, Poland, Italy, Manchuria, Greece and Japan.

This forum also served in 1907 to advertise the "International Society for Urology". One of the early (since 1911) female members, who were also represented with scientific presentations, was the Jewish Viennese gynecological urologist Dora Teleky (1879–1963).

aims

The association is a non-profit association of urologists and doctors interested in urology . In the form of a registered association, it serves to promote science, teaching, further and advanced training, additional clinical training and patient care in the field of urology. The latter also includes the care of urological tumors, which make up around a quarter of all cancers in Germany. The society organizes an annual scientific congress , which with up to 7,000 participants is the largest German-speaking and third-largest urology congress worldwide. The society awards various scientific prizes. The highest scientific award is the Maximilian Nitze Prize. The museum and archive of the German Society for Urology has existed since 2000 and has been in the DGU office in Berlin since summer 2019.

The main areas of activity are:

  • Research funding : This includes the annual “Urological Research Symposium”, the organization of workshops with research topics, the monthly research newsletter, the national urological study register and the awarding of Ferdinand Eisenberger scholarships to young scientists.
  • Guidelines: The company is dedicated to the creation of urology-relevant medical guidelines . The guidelines drawn up under their leadership are published in the guidelines register of the AWMF .
  • Training academy: The company maintains a training academy. The academy organizes advanced training events for urologists and urological assistants and maintains advanced training point accounts for its members.
  • Promotion of young talent: In addition to the Ferdinand Eisenberger scholarships mentioned, this includes the "logbook" of specialist training, prizes for outstanding medical students, doctoral students and scientifically active urologists under 35, the junior academy and the student program "Become a urologist for a day", which is carried out annually in cooperation with the Association of Urological Assistants (GeSRU).
  • Public relations : The company issues press releases and patient information on urological topics and maintains an internet portal . Public relations work includes the publication of information brochures that are easy to understand for the layperson on diseases such as urinary stone disease , benign prostate syndrome , incontinence , HIV vaccination , boys' consultations or the prevention of urological diseases.

structure

Any urologist can become a full member of society. It is possible for doctors in further training in urology to acquire a junior membership. Scientists who are not urologists but who work in the field can become associate members. There are also honorary members and corresponding members. Organs of the association are the general assembly, the committee and the board. There are also 22 working groups, eight commissions and five working groups. The society has 6,405 members (as of September 2018).

The company has offices in Düsseldorf and Berlin. The managing director is Frank Petersilie.

Management board of the company in the 2019/2020 year of office

function Surname
Secretary General and Speaker of the Board of Directors Maurice-Stephan Michel, Mannheim
president Jens Rassweiler, Heilbronn
1st Vice President Arnulf Stenzl, Tübingen
2nd Vice President Margit Fisch, Hamburg
Treasurer Christian Bolenz, Ulm
Secretary Christian Wülfing, Hamburg
Guidelines and Quality Assurance Department Susanne Krege, Essen
Science and Practice Daniela Schultz-Lampel, Villingen-Schwenningen, and Thomas Speck, Berlin
Research Funding Department Maximilian Burger, Regensburg
Further education and training department Marc-Oliver Grimm, Jena
Archivist (not board member) Dirk Schultheiss, Giessen

Publications

  • “The Urologist” - the publication organ of the German Society for Urology and the Professional Association of German Urologists e. V., Springer Medicine Heidelberg, ISSN  0340-2592

collaboration

The German Society for Urology e. V. works with the following national and international organizations:

See also

literature

  • Working group history of urology (ed.): Urology in Germany: balance and perspectives. 100 years of the German Society for Urology. Springer Medizin Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-31034-1 .
  • Matthis Krischel (Ed.): Urologists in National Socialism. Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942271-41-7 .
  • Statutes of the German Society for Urology, http://www.dgu.de/124.html
  • Karl Heusch : Timeline for the history of the German Society for Urology. In: Journal of Urology. No. 50, 1957, pp. 649-652.
  • Karl Heusch: 50 years of the German Society for Urology. In: Journal of Urology. Special volume “Vienna Congress Report”, Leipzig 1957, pp. 13–21.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Schultze-Seemann: History of the German Society for Urology 1906–1986. Springer, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-540-16841-9 , p. 11; Negotiations of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . 68th Assembly in Frankfurt am Main 21. – 26. September 1896. FCW Vogel, Leipzig 1896/97, p. 23.
  2. ^ Franz Volhard : Opening speech to the 42nd Congress of Internists in Wiesbaden in 1930 , in: Hans Erhard Bock , Karl Heinz Hildebrand, Hans Joachim Sarre : Franz Volhard - Recollections , Schattauer Verlag , Stuttgart, New York 1982, ISBN 3-7845-0898- X , p. 84.
  3. ^ J. Konert, F. Moll: From Frankfurt to Stuttgart and Vienna - the long way to founding the "German Society for Urology". In: AK History of Urology (Ed.): Urology in Germany - Balance and Perspectives. Springer, Berlin 2007, pp. 2-4.
  4. ↑ RM Engel, F. Moll: Medical and urological training in Germany and America: Historical Streiflichter. In: The Urologist. Vol. 46, 9, 2007, pp. 991-997.
  5. ^ FM Oberländer: Negotiations of the German Society for Urology 1st Congress in Vienna 2nd – 5th October 1907. Coblentz, Berlin / Thieme, Leipzig 1908, pp. 3-4.
  6. ↑ P. Rathert, F. Moll: Urology in Germany in the mirror of the congresses of the German Society for Urology 1907-2007. In: AK History of Urology (Ed.): Urology in Germany - Balance and Perspectives. Springer, Berlin 2007, pp. 34–47.