Gerhard Kühnhardt

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Gerhard Kühnhardt

Gerhard Kühnhardt (born December 23, 1923 in Groschowitz near Oppeln , died on December 7, 2015 in Ibbenbüren ) was a German ophthalmologist .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in Groß-Strehlitz / Upper Silesia (1942), military service and captivity in Czechoslovakia, Kühnhardt studied medicine in Erlangen , Bamberg , Zurich , Munich and Tübingen from 1946 . In Bamberg he joined the Cartell Association "Fredericia" of the Catholic German Student Union. In 1952 he received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen. After working as an assistant doctor in Solothurn, Bremen and Münster, he practiced as an ophthalmologist in Ibbenbüren from 1960 to 1989 . Since 1980 he has been committed to the expansion of ophthalmological care in Arusha / Tanzania and treated eye patients beyond Arusha to the Maasai area and at the foot of Kilimanjaro in Kibosho near Moshi. Kühnhardt initiated a permanent partnership between the St. Elisabeth Hospital Ibbenbüren and the St. Elisabeth Hospital Arusha. Up until old age he worked as an ophthalmologist and lecturer for eye training for nurses and nurses in Arusha. From 1986 to 1998 he worked on the board of the German Committee for the Prevention of Blindness, of which he had been an honorary member since 2006. Kühnhardt had been married to Irmgard, née Hoffmann, since 1957 and had four children.

Awards

In 2003 Kühnhardt was awarded the Tropical Prize of the German Ophthalmological Society. In 2008, Federal President Köhler awarded Gerhard Kühnhardt the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Publications

  • The results of pharmacological research in Switzerland from 1945-1950. Tübingen, Faculty of Medicine, dissertation from June 25, 1952
  • Salus Aegroti Suprema Lex - Committed to the salvation of the sick. Memoirs of a Doctor. Private print, 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press report on the award of the Cross of Merit

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personal data
SURNAME Kühnhardt, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Groschowitz , Opole