Dieter Jacobi

Dieter Jacobi (born  May 16, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German surgeon . After he was chief physician at the municipal hospital in Mölln from 1974 to 1979 , he worked as a doctor in various aid projects in Africa from 1980 to 2005 and for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in war and disaster areas, including in 2001 for the International Committee of the Red Cross as regional surgeon for Africa. He has published two books about his work.

Life

Dieter Jacobi was born in Berlin in 1937 and studied medicine at the University of Hamburg , where he also received his doctorate in 1963 . He then completed his specialist training as a general surgeon in Hamburg . From 1974 to 1979 he was chief surgeon and head of the municipal hospital in Mölln . He then went to Togo with his wife, who also worked as a doctor, and his two sons , where from 1980 to 1983 he headed the Hôpital Bethesda hospital supported by the North German Mission, an evangelical missionary organization . He then worked for the Flying Doctor Service of the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) in Kenya and Tanzania until 1988 . From 1988 to 2005 he worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the German Red Cross (DRK) in various missions in war and disaster areas, including in 2001 as a regional surgeon of the ICRC for Africa.

Due to his extensive experience in the field of war surgery, Dieter Jacobi has given lectures for the ICRC at various seminars and, among other things , was involved in the development of relevant operational guidelines in the context of the ICRC Master Surgeons Workshop in 2002 . In 1993 he played a major role in the development of the field hospital modules for the concept of the Emergency Response Units (ERU) for the DRK . Dieter Jacobi has published two books about his experiences while working in Togo and his work for the Red Cross. The West German Broadcasting has a TV movie produced about his work for AMREF. After 2005 he continued to work as a trainer for the Red Cross.

Works

• Fufu is not a jelly. Experiences of a German family of doctors in a bush hospital in West Africa. Berlin and Bonn 2003; Second edition 2005
• Rahmat is alive. As a Red Cross doctor in the crisis areas of the world. Berlin and Bonn 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schleswig-Holsteinisches Ärzteblatt. Edition 4/2007. Published by the Schleswig-Holstein Medical Association, p. 19
2. ↑ Biographical information according to: Dieter Jacobi: Rahmat lives. As a Red Cross doctor in the crisis areas of the world. Westkreuz-Verlag, Berlin and Bonn 2007, ISBN 3-92-959294-0 , front inner cover
3. ↑ ^{a b} Möllner help all over the world  ( 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.   In: Lübecker Nachrichten online article from October 10, 2007 (accessed on August 10, 2009)
4. ↑ Chris Giannou, Marco Baldan: War Surgery. Working with Limited Resources in Armed Conflict and other Situations of Violence. Volume 1. International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva 2009, p. 14
5. ↑ Alex Wynter: ERU - A Decade of Emergency Response. In: theBridge. Edition winter 2006/2007. Published by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, p. 7
6. ↑ Dietrich Strothmann : By plane to the operation In: The time . Issue 16 of April 12, 1985 (accessed August 10, 2009)

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Jacobi in the catalog of the German National Library