Friedrich-Ernst Stieve

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Friedrich-Ernst Stieve (born November 5, 1915 in Munich ; † September 7, 2012 there ) was a German radiologist and radiation protectionist . He headed the Institute for Radiation Hygiene of the Federal Health Office .

Life

Friedrich-Ernst Stieve was born in Munich as the son of the anatomist Hermann Stieve . He studied medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1940 with his dissertation on the subject of "replicating distant menisci of the human knee joint". He was a military doctor during World War II and was a US prisoner of war from 1943 to 1946 . In 1946 he began as a volunteer in the X-ray department of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the so-called Rieder Institute. There he completed his habilitation in 1953 with the thesis "X-ray anatomical studies on the normal layer image of the thorax and its organs". In 1975 he was appointed head of the Institute for Radiation Hygiene of the Federal Health Office in Berlin-Dahlem under Georges Fülgraff as President of the Office. After planning started in 1969, the institute moved in 1980 to Neuherberg near Munich to the site of the then Society for Radiation and Environmental Research , after individual employees had already worked there. Friedrich-Ernst Stieve retired at the end of 1980; he was succeeded by Alexander Kaul .

Friedrich-Ernst Stieve was a member of the German Radiation Protection Commission from 1974 to 1980 . In 1986 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and from 1992 an honorary member of the German Radiological Society .

Friedrich-Ernst Stieve's grave is in the Munich forest cemetery .

family

In addition to his father, his grandfather, the historian Felix Stieve , his uncle, the historian and diplomat Friedrich Stieve , and his aunt, the social worker Hedwig Stieve , became famous.

plant

Friedrich-Ernst Stieve researched patient radiation exposure in radiology and nuclear medicine and ways to reduce it without loss of diagnostic quality. He was also involved in the training of medical physicists, doctors and assistants in medical radiation protection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Kütterer: life data of deserving personalities in the first decades of radiology. 2nd Edition. Books on Demand, Norderstedt, 2015. ISBN 978-3-7392-5738-9 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Dietrich Harder , Alexander Kaul and Fridtjof Nüsslin : Our honorary member Prof. Friedrich-Ernst Stieve for guidance. RöFo: Advances in the field of X-rays and imaging methods 184 (12), pp. 1196-1197. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, New York, 2012 (with photo).
  3. ^ Friedrich-Ernst Stieve (Ed.): Opening of the Institute for Radiation Hygiene in Neuherberg. Publication by the Institute for Radiation Hygiene of the Federal Health Office, 1980.
  4. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Friedrich-Ernst Stieve (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 9, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Stieve, Friedrich-Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stieve, Friedrich Ernst (name on family obituary)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radiologist and radiation protectionist
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Germany
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2012
Place of death Munich , Germany