Friedrich Reimann (doctor)

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Friedrich "Fritz" Reimann (born December 11, 1897 in Wichstadtl , Bohemia , † August 6, 1994 in Munich ) was a German hematologist .

life and work

Friedrich Reimann was the son of a country doctor from Silesia . After graduating from high school in Prague in 1915 , he first studied physics and philosophy , then medicine. In 1924 he was at the German University in Prague Dr. med. PhD .

During his further training at the 1st Medical Clinic in Prague, he became head of a hematology laboratory and published groundbreaking studies on iron deficiency anemia and its treatment with bivalent iron and on pernicious anemia . After the German invasion he lost his job; his family (fiancé, parents and siblings) were sent to a concentration camp , where they fell victim to the Holocaust . He himself was temporarily detained and lived in various hiding places. He finally came to Istanbul via Bulgaria in 1940 . At that time, however, there were no longer any positions at the universities and no opportunity to work as a doctor. He had some money with him and started a grain business with an Armenian trader.

In the autumn of 1944, when Turkey broke off relations with Germany, Reimann was sent to Çorum in Central Anatolia along with other emigrants and Reich Germans for internment . His medical skills were highly valued by the local people. There Reimann came across anemic patients, i. H. on people who eat earth. He began investigating such cases and researching the link between geophagia and iron deficiency anemia . The Turkish doctor Muin Memduh Tayanç had already pointed out this connection, and Reimann contacted him when he returned to Istanbul in mid-1945. After the war he first worked as a pharmaceutical salesman in Istanbul.

In 1949 he got a job at the medical faculty of Istanbul University as head of the blood research institute, later the “Istanbul Medical Research Institute”, which he headed until his retirement in 1973. He stayed in Turkey permanently until 1986. At the end of the 1970s, he and his wife bought an apartment in Munich and moved there after 1986. Reimann continued his studies in Istanbul until 1993, when he could no longer travel. In 1994 he died in Munich at the age of 96. Frequent trips abroad to congresses and many publications made Reimann internationally known. He was married to Molly, b. Moskokarifia (1914-1999).

Publications (selection)

Reimann published on iron deficiency and other nutritive anemias, on liver and spleen diseases, hemorrheology and anthropological topics.

  • Comparative studies on the therapeutic effectiveness of iron compounds in secondary anemia . In: Journal of Clinical Medicine 115 (1930) 13.
  • The ferrosensitive chronic chloranemia (asideroses) . In: Journal of Clinical Medicine 126 (1933) 7.

Memberships and honors

  • Member of the European Society for Hematology (founding member)
  • Honorary member of the German Society for Hematology and Oncology (1966)
  • Vice President of the Turkish Hematological Society (1967)
  • Honorary Professor at the University of Freiburg (1955)
  • Large Federal Cross of Merit (1967)

literature

  • New Istanbul Contribution to Clinical Science 9, 1967, pp. 139–154 (laudation and list of publications).

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personal data
SURNAME Reimann, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reimann, Fritz (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hematologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Wichstadtl , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1994
Place of death Munich