Fritz Scheler

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Fritz Scheler (born August 5, 1925 in Mengersgereuth ; † June 4, 2002 in Göttingen ) was a German internist , nephrologist and university professor.

Life

Fritz Scheler was born in 1925 as the son of a railway conductor and a seamstress in southern Thuringia. Werner Scheler was his cousin of almost the same age. Fritz Scheler was taken prisoner of war in 1944. In 1948, while still a prisoner of war in England, he graduated from high school. He studied medicine at the Universities of Göttingen and Freiburg . In 1954 he received his doctorate in Göttingen . In 1955 he married Elisabeth Correns, the daughter of Carl Wilhelm Correns .

Scheler's habilitation on extracorporeal hemodialysis followed in 1964. From 1967 to 1993 he was head of the nephrology and rheumatology department at the Göttingen University Hospital . Scheler suffered a severe heart attack in 1993, which he was able to survive through an emergency bypass operation. He died in Göttingen in 2002.

Work: Hemofiltration

Scheler coined the term hemofiltration and was a co-inventor and pioneer in the development of hemofiltration. Blood water is squeezed out through a membrane and electrolyte solution is then returned. This method was developed for the first time by his colleague Peter Kramer in Göttingen as a procedure (spontaneous filtration) in which plasma is pressed out by the patient's own pressure in order to support the heart function in acute cardiac failure. The various methods of hemofiltration (CAVH, CVVH etc.) were later further developed. In a letter to Scheler, Willem Kolff recognized hemofiltration as the “next step” since the invention of dialysis.

Plant: drug safety

Scheler had a lifelong interest in pharmacology, which arose from his early work at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine . After the invention of hemofiltration and shaped by the early, tragic death of Peter Kramer, he increasingly turned to the Medicines Commission . Scheler had been a member of the Medicines Commission of the German Medical Association since 1975 and was its chairman from 1981 to 1993. In this context, his co-founding of the Institute for Pharmaceutical Law at the Faculty of Law, meanwhile developed further to one of the leading institutions in the field of medical law, the University of Göttingen. Scheler received an honorary doctorate from the law faculty in recognition of his services in this activity.

Honors

  • Ernst von Bergmann badge (1985)
  • Friedrich Voges Medal of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians
  • Paracelsus Medal of the German Medical Association (1994)
  • Honorary doctorate from the Law Faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (1995)
  • Honorary member of the Society for Nephrology (1996)
  • Fritz Scheler grant from the KfH Preventive Medicine Foundation

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Kramer, G. Kaufhold, HJ Grone, W. Wigger, J. Rieger, D. Matthaei, T. Stokke, H. Burchardi, Fritz Scheler: Management of anuric intensive care patients with continuous arteriovenous haemofiltration. Int J Artif Organs 3: 225-230, 1980.
  2. ↑ https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/profil/102486.html
personal data
SURNAME Scheler, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Mengersgereuth
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2002
Place of death Goettingen