Georg Henneberg

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Georg Henneberg 1950s

Georg Henneberg (born October 12, 1908 in Charlottenburg , † February 26, 1996 in Berlin ) was a German physician. He was president of the Robert Koch Institute and the Federal Health Office .

Life

Henneberg was born the son of the microbiologist Wilhelm Hermann Henneberg and his wife Charlotte. After graduating from high school, he first studied natural sciences in Kiel and then medicine from the 4th semester. In 1935 he passed his state examination. After receiving his doctorate in the same year, he went to the Hygiene Institute at the University of Kiel as a volunteer assistant. Finally he applied for his license to practice medicine. According to the Nuremberg Laws , proof of parentage was required during the Nazi era . Since his mother's grandfather was considered a Jew during the Nazi era, he was refused admission. Henneberg protested against this decision at the Berlin Ministry of the Interior. Finally, professors Victor Klingmüller (1870–1942) in Kiel and Ernst Rodebach (Heidelberg) stood up for him, and in 1936 he received his license to practice medicine. Neither at the Kiel Hygiene Institute nor at the Reich Health Office , where he applied, did he get a job, however, because he was considered " Jewish ". Eventually he found work at Berliner Schering AG , where he headed the bacteriological department. Until the end of the war he was mainly involved in the development and testing of biological preparations and the manufacture of vaccines.

On August 1, 1945, he became the head of the virological department of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and on March 1, 1955 - after completing a notable series of managerial positions - first director and professor at the Federal Health Office. Henneberg completed his habilitation in 1950 at the Free University of Berlin and temporarily taught at the University of Freiburg . During his time at the Robert Koch Institute, Wolfgang Waterstraat was his research assistant, who was kidnapped by East Berlin police in 1952 and later executed in the USSR. From 1952 to 1969 Henneberg was President of the Robert Koch Institute, which in 1961 became part of the Federal Health Office . On April 19, 1960 he became Vice President and on December 1, 1969 also President of the Federal Health Office, which he remained until 1974.

After Otto Lentz left the company , he headed the Hygiene Institute at the Free University of Berlin for several years. He received the Venia legendi for the subject of hygiene at the Free University of Berlin and on July 22, 1956 the title of Apl. Professors .

Henneberg was a member of numerous scientific advisory boards as well as many domestic and foreign commissions, an honorary doctorate from the Kitasato Institute in Tokyo, an honorary member of the Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine and the Hellenic Microbiological and Hygienic Society .

He was particularly interested in German-Greek relations , which he demonstrated through his involvement in the German-Greek Society in Berlin . He joined the society in 1962 and was its president from 1974 to 1989. For several years he held a college at the universities of Athens and Thessaloniki and gave lectures to the Hellenic Microbiological and Hygienic Society . The medical faculty of the University of Thessaloniki received around 200 volumes of the scientific journal "Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Mikrobiologie und Hygiene", which he edited.

The 1994 resolution of the Federal Health Office in the wake of the AIDS affair by Minister Horst Seehofer overshadowed the scientist's old age. He protested against the plans of the Ministry of Health to dismantle and fought for the preservation of the 118-year-old institution 'Federal Health Office', to which “his” Robert Koch Institute belonged. Henneberg's protest went unheard by Bonn politicians, as did the objections of all other serious experts against the dismantling of the office.

Henneberg remained active even in old age. In a traffic accident on the market square in Constance , he and his wife suffered serious injuries from which he died on February 26, 1996 at the age of 87. On March 14, 1996, he was followed by his wife Amalie Henneberg.

Honors

Publications

  • Introduction to the bacteriological examination technique for penicillin therapy: Attempts to demonstrate the biological properties of penicillin , 2nd expanded edition, G. Fischer Verlag, Jena 1949
  • (Ed.): Path, goal and limits of streptomycin therapy: with special consideration of the chemotherapy-induced changes in the clinic and pathology of tuberculosis. (According to the results in Berlin clinics by the members of the Streptomycin Committee and their employees), Berlin: de Gruyter, Berlin 1953
  • (Ed. Together with Hartwich Köhler): Internship in virus diagnostics , Stuttgart: G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1961
  • (Ed.): Measles vaccination: Report of the Federal Health Office based on the status of October 1968 , Springer, Berlin; Heidelberg; New York 1969, (Series: Papers from the Federal Health Office; H. 8)
  • The history of the Foundation for Experimental Therapy - Aronson Foundation , Berlin, self-published 1980

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Georg Henneberg on his 65th birthday, Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie und Hygiene, March 1973
  2. ^ Melanie Arndt: Health Policy in Divided Berlin 1948 to 1961 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2009.
  3. ↑ http://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Institut/Geschichte/Dokumente/Geschichte_im_Ueberblick.pdf
  4. ^ German-Greek Society Berlin eV
  5. ^ Obituary from the German-Greek Society Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Henneberg, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and head of authorities
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1996
Place of death Berlin