Günter Bast

Signature of Günter Bast

Günter Bast (born October 28, 1922 in Düsseldorf , † December 7, 1997 in Rostock ) was a German internist . He taught at the University of Rostock .

Life

Günter Bast was the son of the merchant Wilhelm Bast and his wife Josephine Bast, a née Nettesheim. In 1934 his father died and Bast moved to Geldern with his mother . There he attended a humanistic grammar school , where he graduated from high school in 1940 and was then included in the Nazi Reich Labor Service in the Netherlands . This year he was able to start studying human medicine at the University of Bonn . In 1941 he interrupted his studies. He worked in the Wehrmacht and was used as a soldier in Russia and North Africa . He was able to continue his studies at the University of Rostock in the winter semester of 1942/1943 because he was on leave from the Wehrmacht. The next year he went back to the Wehrmacht, where he was promoted to field doctor and was taken prisoner by the British.

In 1945 Bast went back to Bonn to continue his studies again. This he graduated three years later with the promotion to the doctor from the medical field. The dissertation was called mastitis in graviditate . In addition, he passed the medical state examination with the highest grade that year .

In the next period, Bast acted as a compulsory assistant at the Rostock University clinic, and from 1950 as a scientific assistant . Promoted to ward physician in 1951, he had been a specialist in internal medicine since 1954 and was appointed senior physician the following year.

In 1957 Bast received his habilitation at the University of Medicine . For this purpose he wrote the work On the behavior and clinical evaluation of serum iron in some diseases associated with jaundice . The next year the university hired him as the first senior physician and first clinic director, and he also became a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine. In 1962 he was promoted to professor with a teaching position for internal medicine, which position he had held since 1965 and has not worked at the clinic since. In 1967 he also went to the Department of Internal Affairs at the Rostock-Südstadt District Hospital as chief physician . Since 1971 he has been honorary professor at the university .

Bast died in Rostock in 1997 and was buried in Graal-Müritz .

Memberships and other functions

Since 1959 Bast had worked as an associate editor and editor for the magazine Folia Haematologica . He also became secretary of the German Hematological Society that year. Since the next year he has acted as an advisory member of the state health system and from 1966 held the office of chairman of the Rostock district board of the health care union.

Bast also belonged to the following societies: The Society for Hematology and Blood Transfusion , the Society of Internal Medicine in Mecklenburg , the Society for Internal Medicine of the GDR and the Central Expert Commission for Internal Medicine at the Academy for Medical Training in the GDR .

Awards

In 1959 Bast was awarded the silver Hufeland Medal . Two years later he received the medal for excellent performance , was celebrated as a Honored Physician of the People in 1968 and was appointed senior medical adviser in 1974. He was awarded the Bronze Patriotic Order of Merit in 1976. In 1978 he received the Fritz Heckert Medal (bronze), in 1982 the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and in 1995 the Ernst von Bergmann plaque .

Web links

• Literature about Günter Bast in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Günter Bast in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ^ Enrollment of Günter Bast in the Rostock matriculation portal