Diedrich Murken

Bernhard Dörries: Dr. Diedrich Murken with daughter, 1934. Oil on canvas, 120 × 100 cm. Photograph by Elisabeth Murken, 1934

Diedrich Murken (born August 17, 1893 in Herford , † December 23, 1958 in Gütersloh ) was a German doctor, gynecologist and obstetrician.

Live and act

After graduating from high school at Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Herford, Diedrich Murken studied medicine in Göttingen from 1913 to 1914. After military service with the Hanoverian Pioneer Battalion No. 10 in Minden in 1914, as a non-commissioned officer on the Western Front in Flanders from 1915 to 1917 and until the end of the war in 1918 as a lieutenant in the anti-aircraft service in Romania, he continued studying medicine in Göttingen and Jena from 1918 to 1920. He passed the medical state examination in Jena in 1920. Then clinical internship in the Psychiatric University Clinic in Jena with Hans Berger (1873–1941). He left him his medical records of soldiers wounded by poison gas from the Flanders campaign in World War I as a doctoral thesis. Doctorate in 1920 at the University of Jena on the subject of "Psychoses after carbon oxide poisoning".

Specialist training in surgery at the municipal hospital in Stolp (1921–1925). Training as a sports doctor at the German University Institute in Marburg (1926). Then assistant doctor at the midwifery schools in Osnabrück and Hanover under the direction of gynecologist Paul Rissmann (1867–1932) from 1926 to 1928. From 1928 to 1958 resident specialist for gynecology and obstetrics in Gütersloh, founder and medical director of the private gynecological clinic Dr. Diedrich Murken in Gütersloh 1946–1958.

Diedrich Murken is the son of the high school teacher Diedrich Murken (1856–1937) and Elise Murken, b. Schaberg (1870–1959), sister of the painter Laura Schaberg . He was married to the vocational school teacher Elisabeth Murken, geb. Goebel (1908–1998) with whom he had five children, including the doctors Axel Hinrich Murken and Jan Murken .

activities

Chairman of the Gütersloh sports association Arminia (1930–1934), chairman of the doctors' association of the Wiedenbrück district (1954–1958), chairman of the association of private clinics in North Rhine-Westphalia (1954–1958), chairman of the parental care associations of the Gütersloh secondary schools (1948–1954). Member of the board of directors of the Bielefeld General Local Health Insurance Fund (1953–1958).

Publications

• Psychoses after carbon oxide poisoning (medical dissertation, Jena 1920)
• Double-sided symmetrical femoral shaft fracture in newborns during spontaneous birth In: Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie. 51 (1927), pp. 2236 to 2238
• Clinical trials with ovarian hormone In: Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie 52 (1928) pp. 356-360
• The Provincial Midwife Training Institute (Frauenklinik) In: From the social institutions of the Province of Hanover. Düsseldorf 1928, pp. 72-80

literature

• Ernst Knorr: Dr. Murken 65 years . Private clinic and sanatorium 60 (1958), p. 279
• Axel Hinrich Murken: Diedrich Murken (1893-1958). Life and work of a Gütersloh gynecologist . Gütersloh contributions on the homeland and regional studies of the Gütersloh district (1973), issue 32/33, pp. 667–673
• Stefan Grimm: Dr. Diedrich Murken (1893-1958) . In: Stephan Grimm and Heinrich Lakämper-Lührs (eds.): Gütersloher write history. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2005, pp. 58–59
• Hans-Dieter Musch: When the Gütersloher were born in the Murken Clinic . In: Hans-Dieter Musch: Do you remember? Memories of the old Gütersloh. 2nd Edition. Gütersloh 2012, pp. 123–124
• Burkhard Buchen (Ed.): Seniorenwohnpark Dr. Murken . Festschrift, 25 years. Gütersloh 2007

Web links

• Literature by and about Diedrich Murken in the catalog of the German National Library