Ellen Gibbels

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Ellen Gibbels (born August 31, 1929 in Cologne ) is a German university professor emeritus for neurology , psychiatry and electron microscopy at the University of Cologne .

Life

childhood and education

Ellen Gibbels was born as the daughter of the gynecologist Heinrich Gibbels (1891–1949) and his wife Irmgard Gibbels. Montfort (1895–1997), both owners and managers of the Cologne Stadtwald-Sanatorium private clinic , was born in Cologne. After wartime visit to five schools in Cologne, Hachenburg and Koblenz it existed in 1948, the Central High School in the French occupation zone with Landesbestnote.

She then studied for a semester philosophy and other subjects at the Universities of Mainz and Cologne human medicine . In 1955 the state examination and doctorate followed in Cologne with an experimental thesis. She received her first clinical training from 1955 to 1956 at three Cologne university clinics (gynecology, orthopedics, paediatrics). After she was fully licensed as a doctor in 1956, she went on to train as a specialist in neurology and psychiatry from 1957 to 1963 .

academic career

During her specialist training, she was a research assistant at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Cologne under Werner Scheid , interrupted by a study visit of several months in Philadelphia at the virus laboratory of the Children's Hospital under the renowned virologist Werner Henle . There and after her return she worked with neurotropic viruses, which resulted in several publications.

In 1961 she moved under the influence of the first patients with thalidomide - polyneuropathy , a new neurologist by particular constellation of symptoms striking clinical picture, their scientific focus finally to the field of neuromuscular diseases. In 1963 she received the specialist certification for neurology and psychiatry. From 1963 to 1983 she was increasingly responsible for the "Textbook of Neurology" by Werner Scheid, which was expanded several times.

After she was the first woman to do her habilitation in a clinical subject at the Cologne faculty in 1968 with a thesis on thalidomide polyneuropathy , the Aachen public prosecutor appointed her to one of the most important experts in the thalidomide trial in the same year (first section: nerve damage). In 1972 she became an adjunct professor at the Cologne clinic. 1972/73 followed a one-year study visit at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research Frankfurt am Main in the neuropathological department under Wilhelm Krücke .

In 1973 she was appointed to the University of Cologne as a university professor for life , also as the first woman in a clinical subject . From 1973 the establishment and management of an electron microscope laboratory followed. In addition, she established a “neuromuscular consultation hour” and a standardized “polyneuroropathy program” at the clinic.

From 1983 to 1993 she also worked on several systematic neurological-psychiatric studies on Adolf Hitler's nervous disease. It found evidence of a classic Parkinson's disease without any significant psychopathological consequences and thus Hitler's full responsibility for his military and political decisions. From 1979 to 1985 she worked for the international commission CIOMS on a project of the World Health Organization on the definition and nomenclature of neurological diseases.

In 1994 she retired . In retirement, she worked for various institutions from 1994 to 2006 in an advisory capacity and as an expert, also in matters of medical malpractice .

Works (selection)

Gibbels wrote almost 100 scientific publications with initially virological, then neurological and ultrastructural-neuropathogical as well as contemporary history focuses in domestic and foreign journals, monographs or books, including:

  • with W. Scheid: The group of ECHO viruses and their significance for neurological diseases. In: Fortschr Neurol Pscyhiat. 26, 1958, pp. 608-633.
  • as co-author: Textbook of Neurology. Constantly revised. u. extended Edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 1963, 1966, 1968, 1980, 1983.
  • Thalidomide polyneuritis. Thieme, Stuttgart 1968.
  • with W. Scheid: Therapy in Neurology and Psychiatry. Thieme, Stuttgart 1969.
  • with JM Schröder: marrowless nerve fibers in the senium and in the late stage of thalidomide polyneuropathy: quantitative electron microscopic examinations. In: Acta neuropath (Berl.). 39, 1977, pp. 271-280.
  • Tabular instructions for the differential diagnosis of polyneuropathies. In: Fortschr Neurol Psychiat. 48, 1980, pp. 31-66.
  • as co-author: Cylindrical Spirals in Skeletal Muscle. In: Muscle & Nerve. 6, 1983, pp. 646-655.
  • Hitler's Parkinson's Syndrome / a posthumous analysis of motility in film recordings of the German newsreel 1940–1945. In: Neurologist. 59, 1988, pp. 521-528.
  • Morphometry of unmyelinated nerve fibers. In: Clinical Neuropathology. 8, 1989, pp. 179-187.
  • Hitler's Nerve Disorders - Differential Diagnosis of Parkinson's Syndrome. In: Fortschr Neurol Psychiat. 57, 1989, pp. 505-517.
  • Hitler's Parkinson's Disease. On the question of an organic brain psychosyndrome . Springer, Berlin et al. 1990.
  • Hitler's nervous disease. A neurological-psychiatric study. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte. 42, 1994, pp. 155-220. (on-line)
  • Hitler's Parkinson's Syndrome. In: Film documents on contemporary history. IWF G 254, 1994. (video production)
  • with G. Klinghardt: Wilhelm Krücke (1911–1988). For the 100th birthday of the great neuropathologist on December 26th, 2011. In: Fortschr Neurol Psychiat. 79, 2011, pp. 720-723.

See also

literature

  • Women in the service of brain research. In: Kameradengruss (Association of brain-injured war and work victims). 26, No. 4, 1974.
  • Ursula Voß: The scientist Ellen Gibbels / asceticism for science. In: New Rhineland. 23, 1980, No. 8
  • Lothar Hoja: Adolf Hitler's last years of life under the sign of Parkinson's disease. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. November 2nd, 1988.
  • Erwin Odenbach: Ellen Gibbels / Hitler's Parkinson's Disease. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. 88, No. 25/26, 1991, pp. C-1299.
  • Hitler had Parkinson's disease. In: Kölnische Rundschau. September 29, 1995.
  • Hitler leed to Ziekte van Parkinson. In: Haagsche Courant. September 30, 1995.
  • Bruno P. Kremer Hitler's illness. In: Kosmos. No. 10, 1995.
  • Leipziger Volkszeitung. October 1, 1995.
  • Lydia Schumacher: The talk of the 'hysterical tremors' made her curious. In: Doctors newspaper. No. 153, August 29, 1996.
  • Thomas Martin: Hitler's mysterious illness. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bundesarchiv N 1692 Gibbels, Ellen / Biography ( online ( memento of October 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ))
  2. ↑ a b c d Federal Archives N 1692 Gibbels, Ellen / all professional documents
  3. ↑ a b c d e Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine, University of Cologne / Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Ellen Gibbels: Biographical information and all publications
  4. ^ A b University of Cologne: Lecture and / or membership directories 1958–2013
  5. ↑ Case files of the so-called Contergan Trial, Aachen Regional Court Az. 4 KMs 1/68
personal data
SURNAME Gibbels, Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist, psychiatrist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne