Dietrich Arndt

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Dietrich Arndt (born February 13, 1935 in Wörbzig ; † August 17, 2018 ) was a German physician . He was a specialist in internal medicine, occupational medicine and environmental medicine. He lived and worked in Berlin and also worked as an author.

Live and act

His father Hermann Arndt worked as an accountant at the manor in Wörbzig until the Soviet secret police GPU deported him to several internment camps in 1945 , where he died at the age of 47 in special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg / Elbe .

The evangelical baptized and confirmed Dietrich Arndt first attended the elementary school in Wörbzig and then the secondary school in the district town of Koethen , where he passed his Abitur in 1953 at the Goethe secondary school. He studied human medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 1958 , where he passed his state examination. After compulsory assistance in the Köthen district hospital and after a practical year as head of the state medical practice in Gröbzig / Anhalt, he moved to East Berlin, where he trained as a specialist in internal medicine at the Friedrichshain municipal hospital and later at the German Central Institute for Occupational Medicine (DZA ) received such a specialist in occupational medicine .

His scientific path began in 1965 at the DZA and was continued in 1970 in the role of chief physician of the clinical department in what was then the State Center for Radiation Protection - which later became the State Office for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection.

He received his doctorate in 1960 with the animal experimental dissertation on the fibrogenic effect of tridymite in the rat lung after a single intratracheal application to the Dr. med. and completed his habilitation in 1985 with a topic on the diagnosis and assessment of damage to health after radiation therapy .

After the reunification, the politically unaffected person in the GDR was taken on as chief physician at the Federal Health Office, where he intensified his radiological and environmental medical examinations. From 1991 to 1996 he was an appointed member of the Medical Committee of the Radiation Protection Commission at the Federal Environment Ministry. In 1995, as a lecturer in radiation biology and radiation protection medicine at the Charité, he received the academic title of adjunct professor and in the same year the additional designation of environmental medicine. Most recently, Arndt was deputy head of the Center for Genetic Engineering at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin. In this function, he prepared and carried out the much-acclaimed symposium “Reproductive Medicine in Germany” of the Federal Ministry of Health in 2000.

Most recently he worked as a medical expert for occupational radiation damage in his practice in Berlin-Biesdorf .

From 2001 to 2005 he was chairman of the Berliner Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e. V. , after which he continued to work on their board.

Dietrich Arndt was married and the father of three children. He died on August 17, 2018 at the age of 83.

Works

Arndt has authored around 190 scientific journal and book articles as first or co-author, edited several monographs and gave more than 200 lectures at scientific events.

Since May 1997 he has also been active as a writer and since 1999 has been a member of the Federal Association of German Doctors of Writers. Parts of his extensive poetic oeuvre have appeared in four volumes of poetry:

  • In traffic jams : Part I (1999); Part II (2000)
  • Rhymed Life (2006)
  • A Poet's Heaven Divided in Two (2011)

Awards / honors

  • In 1987 he received the Walther Friedrich Prize from the Society for Medical Radiology for drafting new legislation for radiation therapy.
  • In September 2007 the Federal President awarded him the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his “special services to science in the sense of the reunification process” .
  • In May 2012 his collection of poems "The Heavens Divided in Two" was awarded the Horst Joachim Rheindorf Literature Prize from the Federal Association of German Writers and Doctors.

List of sources / literature about Dietrich Arndt (selection)

  • Dieter Großklaus : Laudation for Prof. Dr. med. Dietrich Arndt on the occasion of his 60th birthday on February 13, 1995. In: Wissenschaft und Umwelt. (Aachen), 2/1995.
  • Dieter Großklaus: Prof. Dr. sc. med. Dietrich Arndt 70 years old. In: Berliner Ärzteblatt. 1-3/2005.
  • Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1996.
  • W. Plötz (Ed.): TOP 500. Outstanding personalities in Berlin / Brandenburg. DIB AG, Berlin 2006.
  • About the author. (Autobiography). In: Dietrich Arndt: Gereimtes Leben. 2006.
  • ARNDT, Dietrich. In: German writers lexicon of the Federation of German Writers BDS eV (from 5th edition 2003).
  • Sonja Luft: Where the soul vibrates. A foray through nature and poetry with Prof. Arndt at the Blankensee in May 2007. In: Land in Sicht. No. 10/2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Großklaus: On the death of Dietrich Arndt . In: Berlin doctors . No. 1 , 2019, p. 35 ( PDF ).
  2. ↑ Acknowledgments. Federal Association of German Doctors of Writers (BDSÄ), archived from the original on September 5, 2012 ; Retrieved July 10, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Arndt, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Wörbzig
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 2018