Franz Loogen

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Franz Loogen (born April 13, 1919 in Baesweiler ; † September 3, 2010 in Düsseldorf ) was a German cardiologist . He is a pioneer of cardiac catheterization and is considered the founding father of cardiology as an independent specialist area of internal medicine in Germany. He held the first cardiology chair outside of paediatrics in the Federal Republic of Germany and founded the so-called "Düsseldorf Cardiology School", from which many chair holders , chief physicians and established cardiologists have emerged. As a team doctor, he also looked after the German national team at the 1954 World Cup .

Career

Franz Loogen was born the son of the administrative officer Melchior Loogen and his wife Maria in Baesweiler near Aachen. After graduating from high school (1937) at the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen , Loogen studied human medicine in Cologne , where he took the physics course in 1939 . For the 1st clinical semester he moved to the Humboldt University in Berlin , as the University of Cologne had been closed at the beginning of the war . He was able to complete the 2nd clinical semester in Cologne again. Then Loogen was drafted for military service with the mountain troops in Füssen . After serving in the front in the medical service in France and Russia (1940-42) he came to the student company . A leave of absence to finish his medical studies in Munich saved his life because his unit was destroyed near Leningrad shortly after his return from Russia . Loogen continued his studies at the University of Munich from the summer semester of 1942 and passed the state examination in medicine on July 13, 1944 , as well as with the surgeon Karl Vossschulte with the thesis "About the so-called medical malpractice " to the Dr. med. PhD . Then he had to go back to military service and worked as a hospital doctor in Rosenheim for 3 months .

In September 1944, while on home leave, Loogen was first placed in American and then English captivity , from which he was only released in January 1948. In English captivity, he played in an English football team and worked as a camp doctor in the prisoner-of-war camp in Horbling, Lincolnshire . He got to know an English doctor of German origin who had already (illegally) obtained penicillin for him in 1946 , with which Loogen was able to successfully treat fellow prisoners suffering from endocarditis .

Loogen was married to Hedwig, born in 1943. Tillis († 2009). The marriage produced a daughter.

Working life

After his release from captivity, Loogen worked from 1948 as an unpaid volunteer assistant to Erich Boden at the 1st Medical Clinic of the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf , the forerunner of the University of Düsseldorf founded in 1965 . There he met Otto Bayer , with whom he carried out the first cardiac catheter examinations in 1948/49, and became a member of the cardiological working group at the 1st Medical Clinic led by Bayer. In the course of 1949 he became a ward doctor and research assistant . The first scientific field of work was endocarditis.

1952: Loogen sets up a cardiological outpatient clinic in the medical clinic . The number of patients is constantly increasing.
1954: Publication of the first German monograph on cardiac catheterization, dedicated to the later Nobel Prize winner Werner Forßmann , which became the "bible" of every invasive cardiologist.
1955: Franz Grosse-Brockhoff , director of the 1st Medical Clinic, officially assigns Loogen to lead the cardiological working group.
1957: Habilitation under Grosse-Brockhoff with the thesis " Pulmonary high pressure in congenital heart defects with high current volume ( ductus arteriosus apertus, ventricular septal defect , atrial septal defect )".
1959: Senior physician at the 1st Medical Clinic.
1960: Joined the "German Society for Circulatory Research" (DGK), today: German Society for Cardiology - Heart and Circulatory Research .
1963: Appointment as associate professor .
1965: Appointment as associate professor. Loogen takes over the newly created extraordinary - and first in Germany - chair for "Internal Medicine, especially Cardiology" in Düsseldorf. In the same year, the Düsseldorf University was created from the previous Medical Academy in Düsseldorf.
1966: Head of the cardiology department at the 1st Medical Clinic.
1967: the associate's office is converted into a full professor and Loogen is appointed full professor .
1968 to 1985: Chairman of the Collaborative Research Center “Cardiology” (SFB 30) of the German Research Foundation at the University of Düsseldorf.
1969 to 1993: Editor of the journal for cycle research .
1969 to 1972: Editing - together with Konrad Spang, Stuttgart - of the archive for circulatory research .
1969: the former tuberculosis ward is converted into the new cardiology department of the 1st medical clinic at the University of Düsseldorf.
1971: Call (primo et unico loco) to the chair for cardiology at the University of Heidelberg . During the negotiations to stay in Düsseldorf, Loogen achieved an increase in the number of cardiological beds to 90.
1972: 1. The medical clinic of the University of Düsseldorf is subdivided and Loogen appointed head of the new clinic B. In the same year he received the specialist title in internal medicine with a sub-field of cardiology.
1972: Elected to the board of the European Society for Cardiology .
1975: Election as chairman of the German Society for Circulatory Research and as conference president of the DGK annual conference in Bad Nauheim .
1976: Appointment as Medical Director of the Medical Facilities at the University of Düsseldorf.
1980 to 1984: President of the European Society for Cardiology (ESC) and President of the ESC Congress 1984 in Düsseldorf.
1986: Retirement from
1988 to 1997: Medical activity in the cardiac catheter area at the St. Vincenz Hospital in Essen .

Academic work and merit

Loogen is regarded as the Nestor of Clinical Cardiology in Germany. After his interest in heart disease was aroused - apparently by the endocarditis cases in the prisoner of war camp - and he was able to participate in invasive cardiological diagnostics with the heart catheter in Otto Bayer's group at the beginning of his work as an assistant doctor, he devoted himself entirely to cardiology.

His scientific work initially focused on acquired heart valve defects and all congenital heart defects . Later came Coronary heart disease , cardiomyopathies and electrotherapy ( pacemaker added).

Loogen recognized early on that advances and the increase in knowledge no longer allowed cardiac medicine to be pursued alongside general internal medicine. He has therefore persistently campaigned for cardiology to become an independent subject in Germany, despite the resistance of the internists who accused him of destroying the unity of internal medicine through this specialization. Loogen himself described this as a "process of cutting the cord with a lot of tension and frustration". This ultimately even led to a break with his then head of the clinic, Grosse-Brockhoff. Loogen, who nevertheless always saw cardiology in the context of internal medicine, experienced a late "reconciling" recognition when he was awarded honorary membership of the German Society for Internal Medicine in 1998.

Loogen set up the first independent department for cardiology and worked early on with the (Düsseldorf) heart surgeons, in particular Ernst Derra and Wolfgang Bircks . It was only after he received the first cardiology chair with a clinical department in 1967 that "cardiology" became an established term in Germany and doctors working in cardiology were called "cardiologists".

In addition, Loogen successfully represented German cardiology at specialist congresses abroad in order to overcome the ostracism of Germany after the Second World War, to regain professional recognition and to integrate it into the international cardiological community. In 1972 he was the first German to be elected to the board of the European Society for Cardiology (ESC). In 1980 Loogen took office as ESC President (1980-84) at the European Cardiac Congress. 16 years later his student Günter Breithardt succeeded him in this office.

During his time as President of the ESC, Loogen also represented the interests of European countries on the board of the International Society and Federation of Cardiology (ISFC), later the World Heart Foundation. With a sure instinct for global politics, he won - long before the fall of the Berlin Wall - in negotiations with representatives of the then Eastern Bloc countries and in particular the Soviet Society for Cardiology, their approval of (West) Berlin as the location for the XII organized by the ISFC. World Congress of Cardiology in 1994. Since he wanted cardiologists from Eastern Bloc countries to take part, it was agreed that the Eastern Bloc cardiologists - in the absence of foreign exchange - could stay overnight in East Berlin and come to the congress every day across the border. Due to the global political changes in 1989, the XII. World Congress 1994 then carried out together with the annual ESC congress, when the Iron Curtain was removed .

In addition to his office as President of the ESC, Loogen was also President of the ESC Congress in 1984 in Düsseldorf, which was not only the first European cardiologist congress in Germany, but also so successful with almost 10,000 participants that he gave the impetus to the ESC Congress has been held annually since 1988 and has developed into the world's largest specialist cardiological congress.

As a university professor, Loogen has supervised numerous doctoral students and 15 post-doctoral students. Several generations of specialists, a number of chief physicians and numerous professorships at other universities emerged from his “school”.

When the German Society for Circulatory Research, which was dominated by basic researchers for a long time in the early 1970s, threatened a split between “theorists” and clinicians as a result of the rapid development of clinical cardiology, Loogen averted this, according to the assessment of the long-time DGK managing director Gunther Arnold by he - in addition to the traditional (basic) scientific annual conference in Bad Nauheim (today in Mannheim) - introduced the clinically oriented autumn conference at which "only clinicians should speak and no fundamental questions should be discussed". In addition, as early as 1971 - together with Hans Blömer - he campaigned for the establishment of the “Commission for Clinical Cardiology” of the DGK, of which he became the first chairman.

During his editing, Loogen campaigned for the Zeitschrift für Kardiologie - contrary to the prevailing trend in other medical journals - to continue to appear in German, so that doctors in eastern Germany who were interested in cardiology, who were less familiar with English at the time, should not be excluded from the readership.

Commitment to football

During his student days in Munich from 1942 to 1944 , Loogen was active as a football player for FC Bayern Munich as a left runner. During this period he played a total of 10 point games in the Gauliga Südbayern and scored two goals. In the Gau Cup games, the winners of which qualified for the final round of the Tschammerpokal , he was used in a total of three games, with his last, on June 18, 1944, in the 4-3 win over FC Wacker Munich as an exception acted as a center forward and advanced to the match winner with goals to 2: 1, 3: 1 and 4: 3.

In order to earn a living for his family during the unpaid assistant doctor activity after his return from captivity, Loogen became a contract player at Fortuna Düsseldorf in 1948 , for which he received remuneration of 250 marks per month. Between 1948 and 1950 he played 22 games in what was then the Oberliga West . After playing football, he worked as a team doctor for Fortuna Düsseldorf from 1952 to 1956. During this time he was also a contract doctor for the city of Düsseldorf for sports (with consultation hours in the Düsseldorf ice stadium ) and from 1951 to 1955 head of the sports medical advice center of the city of Düsseldorf.

In 1954 he was hired by national coach Sepp Herberger - on behalf of a Frankfurt doctor who was absent at short notice - as a team doctor for the German national soccer team at the World Cup in Bern. When allegations arose in the early 2000s that the majority of the winning team suffered from hepatitis shortly after the World Cup match was related to prohibited doping , Loogen testified on a television program in 2004 that the players had only received vitamin C injections. He admitted that the pathogen could have been transmitted from one player who was already infected to the other during the injection, especially since there were no disposable syringes in 1954 and the hepatitis virus, which was still little known at the time , can survive normal sterilization .

From 1961 to 1962 Loogen was President of Fortuna Düsseldorf and later Chairman of the Advisory Board .

Honors

  • In 1973 he received the Ernst von Bergmann plaque for his services to advanced medical training
  • In 1984 he received the gold medal from the European Society of Cardiology
  • In 1986 he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
  • In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the University of Essen
  • In 1998 he received the Carl Ludwig Medal of Honor from the DGK
  • In 1998 he became an honorary member of the German Society for Internal Medicine
  • In 2003 he received the Forßmann Prize for his life's work

The Franz Loogen Prize and the Franz Loogen Foundation are named after him.

Publications (selection)

  • Cardiac catheterization for congenital and acquired heart defects. Thieme, Stuttgart 1954. (together with Otto Bayer and Hans Helmut Wolter)
  • Pulmonary hypertension in congenital heart defects with a high current volume (ductus arteriosus apertus, ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect). 1958. (Habilitation thesis)
  • Congenital heart and vascular defects . In: X-ray diagnostics of the heart and blood vessels. Medical Radiology Manual. Springer, Berlin 1967. (together with R. Rippert and Jakob Schoenmackers )
  • Acquired valve defects . In: X-ray diagnostics of the heart and blood vessels. Medical Radiology Manual. Springer, Berlin 1977. (together with L. Seipel, U. Gleichmann, H. Vieten)
  • The cardiomyopathies . In: X-ray diagnostics of the heart and blood vessels. Medical Radiology Manual. Springer, Berlin 1977. (together with H. Kuhn, G. Breithardt, L. Seipel, W. Krelhaus)
  • Vascular diseases. Witzstrock, Baden-Baden 1974. (as editor with K. Credner)

In the Medline database PubMed , Loogen is listed as the author or co-author of 361 specialist publications published between 1951 and 1993.

literature

  • Günter Breithardt, Ludger Seipel: Laudation on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Professor Dr. med. Dr. hc Franz Loogen. In: Clinical Research in Cardiology. Vol. 98 (2009), pp. 341-343, doi: 10.1007 / s00392-009-0030-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c ESC News: Founding father of German cardiology, Franz Loogen, celebrates his 90th ( Memento from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), July 2, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b Berndt Lüderitz: 80 years DGK - a memorable anniversary. Cardio News 2007; 10 (9): 26-27.
  3. ↑ Michael Piper, u. a .: In memoriam Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Franz Loogen , press release University Hospital Düsseldorf, September 5, 2010.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Jochen Aumiller: Loogens steep pass for German cardiology. Cardio News 1999; 2 (4): 14-15.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Eva Kmoth, L. Seipel: As time goes by. Z Kardiol 2004; 93: 240-241.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Günter Breithardt, L. Seipel: On the death of Prof. Dr. med. Dr. hc Franz Loogen (April 13, 1919– September 3, 2010). The cardiologist 2010; 4: 500-501.
  7. ↑ Friedrich-Ernst Schmengler, F. Loogen: About the endocarditis lenta as "reactive reticulosis" with special reference to changes in the liver. Dtsch med Wochenschr 1952; 77: 259-64.
    Erich Boden, F. Loogen: Review and status of the endocarditis lenta treatment. Dtsch med Wochenschr 1952; 77: 1044-9.
  8. ↑ a b Otto Bayer, F. Loogen, HH Wolter: The heart catheterism in congenital and acquired heart defects. Thieme-Verlag, Stuttgart 1954
  9. ↑ a b F. Loogen: Pulmonary hypertension in congenital heart defects with high current volume (ductus arteriosus apertus, ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect). Arch f Circulatory Research 1958; 28: 1-55, doi: 10.1007 / BF02119228 .
  10. ^ University of Düsseldorf: Medicine: DFG strengthens heart research at HHU ( Memento from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), January 24, 2005
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  13. ↑ a b c Jennifer Taylor: Special Feature: Pioneer: Wolfgang Kübler, MD, FRCP, FACC, FESC , Circulation , June 20, 2010, f145-f149
  14. ↑ a b c d e Günter Breithardt, L. Seipel: Laudation on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Prof. Dr. med. Dr. hc Franz Loogen. Clin Res Cardiol 2009; 98: 341-3
  15. ↑ a b c d H [einrich] Kreuzer: Laudation. Z Kardiol 1979; 68: 289
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  17. ^ A b c Hans Blömer: When Cardiology became a separate matter , Eur J Med Res 2006; 11: 415-7
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  19. ^ Günter Breithardt: Laudation for the 85th birthday; on the occasion of a symposium on June 5, 2004 in Benrath .
  20. ^ Günter Breithardt: Cardiology: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Franz Loogen turns 90 ( memento from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), press release University of Düsseldorf, April 8, 2009
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  26. ↑ Bernd Bussang: goalscorer and pioneer of heart research. Rheinische Post, April 23, 1999
  27. ↑ dpa : New doping rumors about the "Heroes of Bern" , faz.net , March 30, 2004
  28. ^ Christian Hoffmann, H. Wedemeyer, T. Niehues: Football World Cup 1954: The viral hepatitis of the "Heroes of Bern" , Dtsch Ärztebl 2010; 107: A 1159-63
  29. ↑ ESC GOLD MEDALS 1968 - 2006
  30. ↑ Bundesverdienstkreuz , Dtsch Ärztebl 1986; 83: A-975
  31. ↑ Honored , Dtsch Ärztebl 1997; 94: A-1079
  32. ^ DGK: Carl Ludwig Medal of Honor laureate
  33. ^ DGIM: Honorary Members
  34. ↑ Distinguished Heart Pioneers , Press Release 152 from the Ruhr University Bochum, May 15, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Loogen, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player, team doctor and cardiologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Baesweiler
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 2010
Place of death Dusseldorf