Eggert Beleites

Eggert Beleites (born June 1, 1939 in Halle (Saale) ; † December 27, 2006 ) was a German doctor, medical professional politician and university professor for ear, nose and throat medicine .

Career

Eggert Beleites was the 7th child of the ENT doctor Bernhard Beleites from Halle. At the age of nine he lost his father. After graduating from high school in 1958 and one year of probation in production (unskilled workers in the Leuna factory), Beleites was allowed to study human medicine at the University of Halle . He received his doctorate in 1966 and then completed training as a specialist in ear, nose and throat medicine at the Jena University Hospital with Rosemarie Albrecht . He performed particularly hearing-improving operations and introduced new surgical procedures in this area. In 1986 he completed his habilitation. Scientifically, he collaborated with the University's Institute for Glass Chemistry, founded a working and research group for biomaterials at the FSU, helped develop new glass ceramics and submitted several patents in this area. The special material Bioverit for middle ear prostheses and other areas of application became particularly well known. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Beleites initiated the cross-border association of Central German ENT doctors. In 1993 he was appointed director of the ENT clinic at the University of Jena . In 2005 he retired.

At the beginning of the fall of the Wall (GDR) in 1990, Beleites made himself available to the medical self-administration that was to be established. As the first President of the State Medical Association of Thuringia, he was re-elected several times and was a member of the board of the Federal Medical Association. Under Beleites, the new building of the State Medical Association in Maua (Jena) was put into operation in 1997. He was now particularly concerned with questions of medical ethics. He became chairman of the committee for fundamental ethical and medical-legal questions of the German Medical Association.

Publications

• Eggert Beleites: Prejudgment contradicts human dignity (editorial). Ärzteblatt Thüringen 15 (2004), 424-425
• Eggert Beleites: Letter to the editor on the "Rosemarie Albrecht case". Ärzteblatt Thüringen 15 (2004), 577
• Human responsibility yesterday and today. Contributions and reflections on the National Socialist euthanasia events in Thuringia and the current debate on death , Thuringia State Medical Association, Jena 2008, ISBN 3-9806989-4-7

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (April 28, 1997)
• Paracelsus Medal (2006)
• Honorary member of the Czech ENT Society

literature

• H. Gudziol: Prof. Dr. med. habil. Eggert Beleites on his 65th birthday . Ärzteblatt Thüringen 15 (2004), 279–280.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President
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