Dietrich Niethammer

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Dietrich Niethammer (born October 24, 1939 in Leipzig ; † February 3, 2020 in Tübingen ) was a German pediatrician and oncologist and author. He pioneered bone marrow transplants.

Life

Niethammer studied medicine in Tübingen, Vienna and Munich and received her doctorate under Elfriede Aulhorn at the University of Tübingen's eye clinic. He then worked there as an assistant and in 1968 did a research stay at the University of California, San Diego . He helped set up the department for pediatric oncology at the University Clinic in Ulm and in 1975 carried out one of the first allogeneic bone marrow transplants in children with aplastic anemia in Germany. In 1977 he qualified as a professor in pediatrics and in 1978 became professor in Tübingen and medical director of the hematology department of the university clinic. In 1989 he became managing director of the University Clinic for Child and Adolescent Medicine.

He was married and had three children.

Act

Dietrich Niethammer was committed to bone marrow and stem cell transplantation in paediatrics and was considered a pioneer in this field. As early as 1975 he carried out one of the first allogeneic bone marrow transplants in Germany.

He has published over 400 specialist articles, including on ethical issues relating to end-of-life care for children.

Niethammer was a member from 1990 to 2003 and from 1998 chairman of the Medicine Committee of the Science Council. He was also a member of the ethics committee of the German Medical Association.

The University of Greifswald awarded him an honorary doctorate in university medicine in 2004. In 2006 he received the Ernst Jung Gold Medal in Medicine . A prize for services in pediatric oncology from the Society for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology (GPOH) is named after him. In 2005 a foundation for sick children in Tübingen was named after him. Also in 2005 he was made an honorary member of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine and was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . In 2014 Dietrich Niethammer was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg . "In 014 he received the Otto Heubner Medal of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine for his life's work.

Fonts (selection)

  • Well cared for in children's hospital operations? Interdisciplinary work in the children's hospital. In: Paths to People. Journal for pastoral care and counseling, healing and social action, Volume 66 (2014), pp. 19-30.
  • When a child is seriously ill: dealing with the truth . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010 (MedizinHuman, Volume 11), ISBN 978-3-518-46164-8 .
  • The importance of school in the life of children with cancer. Experiences and perspectives. In: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie, Volume 61 (2009), pp. 73–81.
  • The speechless child: On dealing honestly with seriously ill and dying children and adolescents , Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-7945-2580-5 .
  • Honorary doctorate Prof. Dr. Dietrich Niethammer - "When children and young people have to die" , The Rector of Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Univ., Greifswald 2005 (Greifswald University Speeches, NF, No. 113), ISBN 3-86006-240-9 .
  • Should one talk about death with seriously ill children? In: Journal of Medical Ethics, Volume 51 (2005), pp. 115–128.
  • Euthanasia and terminal care in pediatric oncology , Klin. Pädiatrie, Volume 215, 2003, pp. 166–170.
  • Children in the face of their death. In: Claudia Wiesemann u. a. (Ed.): The child as a patient. Ethical conflicts between the best interests of the child and the will of the child. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, (Culture of Medicine, Volume 7), ISBN 978-3-593-37374-4 , pp. 92-115.
  • Death of Child. In: A. Karim, D. Newling, H. Kuitert, V. Wortman (eds.) Death: Medical, Spiritual and Social Care of Dying, VU ​​University Press, Amsterdam 1998, ISBN 90-5383-503-2 .
  • "... always to be comforted". Ethical advice in everyday medical practice. In: Journal for Protestant Ethics, Volume 46 (2002), pp. 205–213.
  • The patient (test subject) incapable of giving consent in clinical research. Pediatric Aspects. In: Richard Toellner (Ed.): Knowledge - Action - Ethics: Structures of medical action and their ethical relevance, G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1995 (medical ethics, volume 6), ISBN 3-437-11701-7 , p. 109 -116.
  • I want to live every day. Living with children and adolescents with cancer. Experience and help (together with Heide Häberle and others), Herder, Freiburg i.Br. 1995, ISBN 3-451-23112-3 .
  • The dying of children , magazine. Medicine Ethik, Volume 40, 1994, pp. 213-221.

swell

  • Biography on the occasion of the announcement of the Dietrich Niethammer Prize 2012.
  • Ulla Steuerungagel : An approachable doctor and scientist. In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt dated February 7, 2020 (obituary).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Tübingen pioneer of bone marrow transplantation died" , SWR , February 7, 2020, accessed on February 19, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b "Obituary Prof. Dr. Dietrich Niethammer ” , University of Greifswald from February 16, 2020, accessed on February 19, 2020.
  3. ^ "Dietrich Niethammer: Prize for impressive life's work" , Deutsches Ärzteblatt 43/2014, accessed on February 19, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Niethammer, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 2020
Place of death Tübingen