Fritz von Weizsäcker

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Fritz Eckhart Freiherr von Weizsäcker (born July 20, 1960 in Essen , † November 19, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German physician . His specialties were internal medicine and gastroenterology . In his publications, he devoted himself particularly to the treatment of hepatitis B and hepatitis C . From 2005 until his killing he was chief physician for internal medicine I at the Schlosspark Clinic in Berlin.

Life

Family and education

Fritz von Weizsäcker came from the Palatinate - Württemberg family Weizsäcker . He was the youngest of four children of the future Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker (1920–2015) and his wife Marianne , b. von Kretschmann (* 1932), and the brother of Robert K. von Weizsäcker , Andreas von Weizsäcker and Beatrice von Weizsäcker .

Fritz von Weizsäcker spent his childhood in Ingelheim am Rhein and Bonn , where he graduated from high school . From 1979 to 1987 von Weizsäcker studied human medicine at the University of Bonn and the University of Heidelberg . In 1983 he took part in the summer academy at the Weizmann Institute for Science in Rechovot ( Israel ). An internship in the USA in 1987 led him to the Mayo Medical School in Rochester (Minnesota) , to the MD Anderson Hospital in Houston ( Texas ), to the Boston City Hospital ( Boston University , Boston ) and to the Brigham and Women's Hospital ( Harvard) Medical School , Boston). From 1983 to 1986 he took part in the Ph.D. -Program at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. In 1987 he was with the work mil v-temperature-sensitive mutants of oncogenes and v-myc, a contribution to the pathogenicity of chicken leukemia virus MH 2 and the grade " summa cum laude " doctorate and was the third state examination in Heidelberg with the approbation as a doctor. The habilitation for the subject “Internal Medicine” followed in 1997 with the thesis Molecular Antiviral Strategies: Therapy of Hepatitis B Virus Infection with Antisense Oligodeoxyribonucleotides, Ribozymes and Dominant Negative Proteins at the University of Freiburg . In 1998 he became a specialist in internal medicine and gastroenterology .

Von Weizsäcker was the father of four children. He was divorced since 2012. Most recently he lived with his partner and their children in Berlin-Zehlendorf .

Professional activities

From 1987 to 1990 Weizsäcker worked as an assistant doctor at the Freiburg University Medical Center . He was then a post-doctoral student at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School , Boston (USA) until 1992 , and then held a position as an assistant doctor at Zurich University Hospital until 1994 . From 1994 to 1998 he worked as an assistant doctor at the Medical University Clinic in Freiburg . He was then a senior clinical physician there until 2003 , then, until 2005, senior physician in charge and deputy medical director . In 2003 he became professor for internal medicine at the University of Freiburg .

Weizsäcker had been chief physician in the internal department of the Schlosspark Clinic in Berlin since July 1, 2005.

Death by assassination

Gravestone for Richard and Fritz von Weizsäcker at the Dahlem forest cemetery

On the evening of November 19, 2019, Fritz von Weizsäcker was killed by a presumably mentally ill person with a stab in the neck in the rooms of the Schlosspark Clinic towards the end of a public lecture he gave. A police officer who was not on duty rushed to the rescue and was seriously injured by the attacker. The policeman's life was saved by an emergency operation. The Berlin public prosecutor's office assumes a “ delusional general aversion” to the von Weizsäcker family. The attacker was taken to a psychiatric hospital at the request of the prosecutor. In July 2020 he was sentenced to 12 years in prison by the Berlin district court . In addition, placement in a psychiatric clinic was ordered. Fritz von Weizsäcker was 59 years old. He was buried on December 2, 2019 next to his father's grave at the Dahlem Forest Cemetery.

Memberships and honors

Fritz von Weizsäcker was a board member of the Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology in Berlin and Brandenburg e. V. , the association Gesundheitsstadt Berlin e. V. and the Victor von Weizsäcker Society . In 2008 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Voronezh .

He had been a member of the Free Democratic Party since 2009 .

Publications (selection)

In addition, he published numerous specialist articles.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar, 2009, Volume IV, p. 4526
  2. ↑ Villa of the murdered Weizsäcker son is sold. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Chief Physician of Internal Medicine I
  4. ↑ Lecture: Patient Forum | Fatty liver - (not) a cause for concern? November 19, 2019 , Gesundheitsstadt-berlin.de, accessed on November 20, 2019
  5. ^ Ansgar Siemens: Death of Fritz von Weizsäcker - assassination attempt out of nowhere ; In: Spiegel Online from November 20, 2019; accessed on November 20, 2019
  6. ↑ The attacker stabs Fritz von Weizsäcker in a private clinic in Charlottenburg. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Tagesspiegel , November 19, 2019, accessed on November 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ The motive was "probably delusional aversion" to the Weizsäcker family tagesspiegel.de, November 20, 2019
  8. ↑ Seriously injured police officer thanks for support , rbb24.de, December 24, 2019
  9. ↑ attack because of a "delusional related general aversion" ; süddeutsche.de from November 20, 2019
  10. ↑ Weizsäcker assassin convicted of murder. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Fritz von Weizsäcker buried. Berliner Morgenpost , December 2, 2019, archived from the original on December 21, 2019 . ;.
  12. ^ Fundraising dinner in Bonn - von Weizsäcker now FDP member ( Memento from February 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), FDP Citizens Fund. September 12 [2009]
  13. ↑ 100 days of Merkel & Westerwelle: Hope was yellow , taz.de, February 1, 2010
  14. ↑ List of publications in journals (as of 2008) (PDF file; 56 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Weizsäcker, Fritz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weizsäcker, Fritz Eckhart Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 2019
Place of death Berlin