Dietrich Tutzke

Dietrich Tutzke (born May 11, 1920 in Altdöbern ; † December 26, 1999 in Bayreuth ) was a German physician and medical historian . In 1969, Tutzke co-founded the Society for the History of Medicine in the GDR and was temporarily its chairman.

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After graduating from Senftenberg in 1938 and completing his military service , Dietrich Tutzke began studying medicine in Leipzig and Halle in 1940 . Due to the Second World War , he had to interrupt his studies and do his military service as a junior doctor in the Wehrmacht . After he was taken prisoner of war towards the end of the war , he continued his studies in Greifswald and Berlin from 1945 .

In 1947 he started as an assistant physician at the Pathological Institute of the Dresden-Friedrichstadt Hospital , but in the same year he moved to the Main Health Office in Dresden as a consultant for epidemic control and in 1950 as chief consultant for epidemic control at the Saxon Ministry of Health. In 1951 he received his doctorate in medicine on disease control in Saxony. He then moved to the University of Leipzig, where he was first assistant to Karl Gelbke at the Anatomical Institute. In 1953 he moved to the newly founded Institute for Social Hygiene as Senior Assistant von Gelbke, where he completed his habilitation there in 1958 on Alfred Grotjahn and Social Hygiene . In 1958/59 Tutzke took over the management of this institute and was initially a lecturer in social hygiene, and from 1963 professor with a full teaching position for social hygiene.

In 1965, Tutzke took over the professorship and chair of the Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In addition, he was acting director of the institute and the chair for social hygiene at the University of Leipzig until 1967, after which the chair remained vacant until it was taken over by Alexander Lengwinat in 1973 . In 1969, Tutzke took over the professorship for General Medical History at the Charité in Berlin and headed the Institute for Medical History there, alternating with Gerhard Misgeld from 1965 to 1970 and from 1977 until his retirement in 1985.

In 1965, Tutzke co-founded a working group of East German medical historians, from which the Society for the History of Medicine of the GDR emerged in 1969, of which he was chairman from 1969–1971 and 1975–1982. Between 1981 and 1990 he was co-editor of the " NTM ". In 1960 he was awarded the Hufeland Medal . Tutzke was a member of the Société Internationale d'Histoire de la Médecine and honorary member of the Bulgarian, Polish, Soviet and Hungarian medical historians associations.

Works (selection)

Dietrich Tutzke wrote more than 250 publications as first, co- and senior author.

• E. Fischer, L. Rohland, D. Tutzke: For the well-being of people . 30 years of healthcare in the GDR. VEB Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1979 (2 volumes).
• D. Tutzke (ed.): History of medicine . With contributions by G. Harig , D. Tutzke, I. Winter. VEB Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1980.
• D. Tutzke (Ed.): On the social conditioning of medicine in history . G. Fischer, Jena 1981.
• D. Tutzke et al. a .: Charité . 1710-1985. VEB Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1985.

literature

• Peter Schneck : In memory of Dietrich Tutzke (1920–1999) . In: NTM . NS, International Journal of the History and Ethics of Science and Medicine. tape 8 , 2000, pp. 190-191 .
• Manfred Stürzbecher : Social Hygiene and Medical History . In memory of Dietrich Tutzke (1920–1999). In: Peter Schneck (Ed.): 70 years of the Berlin Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences (1930–2000) . Shaker, Aachen 2001, p. 18-25 .
• Hubert Laitko :  Tutzke, Dietrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .