Gerhard Kugler

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Gerhard Kugler (2007)

Gerhard Kugler (born May 4, 1935 in Bodenbach ; † November 3, 2009 ) was one of the German air rescue pioneers . He was best known as the long-time managing director of ADAC air rescue , book author and caricaturist .

Services

For more than 40 years, Kugler has initiated, directed and designed the fate of emergency aid and air rescue not only in the automobile club ADAC , but also in Germany and made it known all over the world. With commitment, he built up air rescue as part of the ADAC: from 1 to 22 air rescue bases of the ADAC.

Life

Gerhard Kugler was born in Bodenbach (Sudetenland) in 1935. Here, Kugler was already fascinated by “model flying” with flight experiments on the “Schäferwand” behind his parents' house. At the age of 10, Kugler was expelled with his family in 1945 and came to Bernburg (Saxony-Anhalt) via a reception camp . Kugler graduated from the Carolinum / Karl-Marx-Oberschule in Bernburg in 1954. After graduating from high school, he began an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk. In 1956 he fled to West Germany, came to Düsseldorf via a reception camp in West Berlin and Sandbostel (work in a paint factory) and then to Munich. In 1976 Kugler moved to Geretsried with his wife Renate and their three daughters .

Professional career at ADAC

Since 1957 Kugler worked for the ADAC, first as a clerk in the traffic department "Road Information", from August 1, 1971 he switched to the ADAC department for "Traffic Education and Awareness (VEA)" and took over the responsibility as department head "Accident Rescue" . In 1973 Kugler went to Bonn for the ADAC to organize the “liaison office of the automobile club” in the federal capital. In 1974 he became provisional managing director of the ADAC-Gau Württemberg.

From 1977 Kugler turned back to traffic medicine and air rescue and on June 15, 1982 he became an authorized signatory and head of the air rescue department at ADAC air rescue. From 1990 until his retirement in 2000, Kugler was managing director of the non-profit ADAC-Luftrettung GmbH.

Honors

  • Gerhard Kugler 1998
    Gerhard Kugler, 1998 in Straubing, awarded the Federal Cross of Merit
    1998: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class (presented on August 10th by Bavaria's Interior Minister Günther Beckstein in Straubing for his more than 30 years of service to improving accident rescue).
  • 2000: Golden badge of honor of the German Society for Trauma Surgery e. V. (DGU).
  • 2001: Max Lebsche Medal , Association of Bavarian Surgeons V.

EHAC

On February 25, 2000, Kugler founded the “European HEMS and Air Rescue Committee e. V. (EHAC) ", renamed on April 21, 2004 to" European HEMS and Air Ambulance Committee e. V. (EHAC) ”and was president of the association until June 20, 2005. As the founding and later honorary president of the EHAC, Kugler represented the interests of air rescue on a national, but above all on an international level.

Kugler as an artist

Kugler discovered his inclination for painting and drawing as a student at the grammar school in Bernburg (Saale) while caricaturing teachers and classmates. Kugler's artistic focus was on watercolor painting with the main theme of landscapes. He got started with landscape watercolors in the mid-1980s; a first exhibition in 1990 in the old town hall in Bad Tölz encouraged him to focus on mountain painting in particular. Watercolor painting excursions can also be seen in posthumously published Kugler calendar editions. Although self-taught, Kugler was not a Sunday painter, but a serious artist. He was able to deal with color and subject with an almost dreamlike ease. Anyone who has ever seen his pictures was impressed by their cheerfulness; a joy that was ultimately part of his personality.

With the publication of the book “ ADACOPTER - Auf -zeichnung einer Entwicklung ” (2002), Kugler succeeded in combining his passion as a protagonist and pioneer of air rescue with artistic means of expression as a caricaturist in a cheerful professional retrospect with 155 caricatures. His memoirs “ ADACOPTER-2, Recollections ” were almost finished in 2009 until his death and were published posthumously in 2010 for the 40th anniversary of ADAC air rescue with 82 caricatures.

Bo 105

When he retired in 2000, Kugler received a restored Bo 105 airframe with the historical identification D-HILF from Eurocopter . He donated it to the Deutsches Museum, where it has been part of the “Modern Transport Systems” exhibition in the traffic center on Theresienhöhe since October 2006.

Obituaries

Manuel Struck: Climbing to a Higher Level - a Tribute to Gerhard Kugler, 1935–2009 . In: Air Medical Journal . Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 10. Elsevier, Philadelphia 2010.

Ulrich, Schröer: Gerhard Kugler - a pioneer of air rescue died . Copterweb.de, November 10, 2009.

International Gerhard Kugler Air Rescue Symposium

The Claus Enneker Foundation hosted the International Gerhard Kugler Air Rescue Symposium “Air Rescue past - present - future” including the scientific forum “Future challenges in Air Rescue Services” on Saturday, May 9th, 2015 in Höhenried Castle on Lake Starnberg well-known speakers from home and abroad.

Works (selection)

  • The anti-etiquette. A guide for traffic offenders and those who want to become one, from a – z . Vogel Verlag, Munich 1965.
  • Medical advice for vacation and travel. A book for the glove box. With the collaboration of Wolfgang Dattler. ADAC-Verlag, Munich, 1970.
  • ADACOPTER, records of a development . Werner Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-933266-77-4 .
  • Dr. Airwing S. A tribute to Dr. Erwin Stolpe on his 60th birthday . W. Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-933266-78-5 .
  • The miracle of Bern ... castle. Memories on the 50th anniversary of high school graduation 1954–2004, former class 12 b3 . W. Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-933266-75-0 .
  • ADACOPTER-2, memories . Edited by Gerhard Kugler, Werner Wolfsfellner (posthumously ed.). W. Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-933266-62-0 .

Publications as editor (selection)

  • Gerhard Kugler, Wolfgang Wuthe: Who helps where on the autobahn . Directory of doctors, hospitals, emergency services and police stations in the vicinity of the motorway exits. General German Automobile Club e. V., Munich 1966.
  • ADAC e. V .: The paramedic in the air ambulance service. Notes for additional training . Edited by ADAC e. V., chief dept. Transport, Dept. of Transport Medicine. ADAC Road Traffic Series, No. 22. Munich 1978.
  • ADAC e. V .: The doctor in the air ambulance service. Leaflet on the technical requirements with information for the special briefing . Edited by ADAC e. V., Dept. of Traffic Medicine. Munich 1st edition 09/1979. (Adaptation by Hans Burghart, Bodo Gorgaß).
  • Gerhard Kugler, Hans Burghart, Per Krueger, Hans Hennig Atrott: Air rescue. Results, analyzes, developments; Report on the 1st International Air Rescue Congress from 16. – 19. September 1980 in Munich = Aeromedical evacuation . In: General German Automobile Club. Hauptabteilung Verkehr (Ed.): Road Traffic Series, 25 . ADAC, chief dept. Transport, Munich 1981.
  • Gerhard Kugler: "Air Rescue in Hesse" . Conference report on the ADAC specialist symposium on August 12, 1994 in the professional association accident clinic, Frankfurt am Main. Edited by ADAC-Luftrettung GmbH, Munich. Wolfsfellner MedVlg, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-933266-39-2 .
  • Gerhard Kugler: "Air rescue - chance to survive". Congress report on AIRMED 1996 from 11. – 14. June 1996 in Munich = "Air rescue - chance for survival" / ADAC World Congress Aeromedical Service. Edited by ADAC-Luftrettung GmbH (Munich). Wolfsfellner Medizin-Verl., Munich 1997, ISBN 3-9802271-2-X .

Publications (selection)

  • Gerhard Kugler: Cost aspects in rescue helicopter use . In: International Symposium, Possibilities of Helicopters and Airplanes in Rescue Services, The Role of Helicopters and Airplanes in Search and Rescue. Ed. Prof. Rudolf Frey, Institute for Anaesthesiology of the University, Mainz, 3rd – 5th October 1972. Collection of abstracts, program, p. 6.
  • Gerhard Kugler: The Bavarian experience with air rescue . In: International Symposium, Possibilities of Helicopters and Airplanes in Rescue Services, The Role of Helicopters and Airplanes in Search and Rescue. Ed. Prof. Rudolf Frey, Institute for Anaesthesiology of the University, Mainz, 3rd – 5th October 1972. Collection of abstracts, program, p. 11.
  • Gerhard Kugler: Helicopters - from the point of view of the ADAC. Organizational conditions for the use of helicopters for civil protection and rescue services . In: Civil Defense Magazine , 07-1974. Federal Association for Self-Protection, Cologne 1974, pp. 22-25 (download, approx. 23 MB as PDF ).
  • Gerhard Kugler: Experience with Rescue Helikopters in the Federal Republic of Germany. Lecture in Los Angeles on January 20, 1975. Quoted in: Martin Frey: Possibilities and limits of air rescue for emergency patients. University of Mainz, Faculty of Medicine, Dissertation, Mainz 1976, p. 48.
  • Gerhard Kugler: The Organization of the Air Rescue Service in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: AGARD Operational Helicopter Aviation Medicine . Edited by Colonel SC Knapp, MC, Fort Rucker, Alabama. In: AGARD ADVISORY GROUP FOR AEROSPACE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (ed.): Papers presented at the Aerospace Medical Panel's Specialists' Meeting held at Fort Rucker, Alabama, USA, 1 - 5 May 1978. CP-255. Neuilly sur Seine, France. December 1, 1978, pp. 41–45 (English, nato.int, download as PDF , approx. 310 MB).
  • Gerhard Kugler: The network of civil air rescue in Germany. In: Air rescue. Results, analyzes, developments; Report on the 1st International Air Rescue Congress from 16. – 19. September 1980 in Munich = Aeromedical evacuation . In: Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club, Hauptabteilung Verkehr (Ed.): Road traffic series, 25 . ADAC, chief dept. Verkehr, Munich 1981, pp. 76-79.
  • Gerhard Kugler: The cost of the air rescue service. In: Air rescue. Results, analyzes, developments; Report on the 1st International Air Rescue Congress from 16. – 19. September 1980 in Munich = Aeromedical evacuation . In: Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club, Hauptabteilung Verkehr (Ed.): Road traffic series, 25 . ADAC, chief dept. Verkehr, Munich 1981, pp. 367-369.
  • Gerhard Kugler, Peter Hafenbrädl: State of the air rescue in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) . In: Airmed '85, 10. – 13. September, Zurich. International Aeromedical Evacuation Congress. Edited / own publisher Swiss Air Rescue Service (REGA), G. Hossli, Zurich 1987, p. 6.
  • Gerhard Kugler: Efficiency of air rescue from an operational and economic point of view. In: Airmed '85, 10. – 13. September, Zurich. International Aeromedical Evacuation Congress. Edited / own publisher Schweizerische Rettungsflugwacht (REGA), G. Hossli, Zurich 1987, pp. 240–241.
  • Gerhard Kugler: Business trend for good advice . In: Rettungs-Magazin , Jan./Febr. '97, Ebner Verlag, Ulm 1997, p. 97.
  • Gerhard Kugler: A broad field. EHAC is also attracting increasing interest in Eastern Europe, the Far East and the USA. In: ADAC Air Rescue . The professional magazine. Issue 2, December 2002. ADAC Luftrettung GmbH, Munich 2002, p. 34.

Literature on Kugler

  • Benjamin Homberg: We fly so that you live. 15 years of organized air rescue . EFB-Verlag, Hanau 1985, ISBN 978-3-88776-022-9 .
  • Lothar Langner, Hans-Ulrich Suckert: Air rescue in Germany . Wolfsfellner Medizin-Verl., Munich 1992, ISBN 3-9802271-3-8 , p. 56 (success has many fathers), G. Kugler, pp. 140-142.
  • Theodor Siepert: 25 years of air rescue. The pioneers of air rescue. Dr. Jürgen Ewald, Gerhard Kugler, Franz Stadler . In: ADAC Motorwelt . 7/93. Munich, July 1993, pp. 6-8.
  • Hans-Ulrich Suckert, Marco Quinzio: Air rescue in Germany. Medicine, technology and humanity - at work for life . Edited by Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht e. V. (Filderstadt). W. Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-9802271-5-4 , pp. 138, 161, 189-191.
  • Guido Ziese: The "two". Siegfried Steiger and Gerhard Kugler . In: Rotorblatt , 2/2003. Ziese Verlag, Oldenburg 2003, ISSN  0945-6090 .
  • Thomas Steininger: The development of emergency medical services in the city and region of Munich . Munich, Univ., Dissertation, 2009. Chapter 4.2 Rescue helicopters, interview with G. Kugler. (download, accessible free of charge, PDF approx. 8 MB).
  • Publishing community Claus Enneker †; Heinrich Klingshirn; Christian K. Lackner; Leonhard Schweiberer †; Erwin Stolpe; Renate Kugler; Cornelia Kugler; Kathrin Löffler; Christiane Waegele: Gerhard Kugler memorial . 1935-2009. Foreword by Erwin Stolpe. German English. Wolfsfellner MedizinVerl., Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-933266-70-5 .
  • Heinrich Klingshirn: The long way to a modern rescue service. Selected lectures 1980–2006 . With an afterword by Peter Sefrin. W. Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-933266-84-2 .
  • Holger Scholl: Air rescue manual . Organization, deployment, tactics and technology. 2nd Edition. Stumpf + Kossendey, Edewecht 2018, ISBN 978-3-943174-93-9 , pp. 33, 51, 354.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publishing group Claus Enneker †; Heinrich Klingshirn; Christian K. Lackner; Leonhard Schweiberer †; Erwin Stolpe; Renate Kugler; Cornelia Kugler; Kathrin Löffler; Christiane Waegele: Gerhard Kugler memorial . 1935-2009. Foreword by Erwin Stolpe. German English. Wolfsfellner MedizinVerl., Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-933266-70-5 , (Volker Knapp, former ADAC managing director Help / Technology / Security, pp. 15-18).
  2. ↑ Holger Zoubek: Quick help is approaching from heaven . Airborne medical care has been available for 31 years. 850,000 people have already been helped by helicopter . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Munich, March 24, 2001
  3. ^ Commercial register at the Munich Local Court, HRB 7637.
  4. ^ ADAC press office, Ulf Rasch: press release ND 115a / 98 , dated August 10, 1998.
  5. ↑ DGU
  6. ↑ Max Lebsche Medal
  7. ↑ EHAC
  8. ↑ Publishing group Claus Enneker †; Heinrich Klingshirn; Christian K. Lackner; Leonhard Schweiberer †; Erwin Stolpe; Renate Kugler; Cornelia Kugler; Kathrin Löffler; Christiane Waegele: Gerhard Kugler memorial . 1935-2009. Foreword by Erwin Stolpe. German English. Wolfsfellner MedizinVerl., Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-933266-70-5 , (Heinrich Klingshirn, p. 31).
  9. ↑ Publishing group Claus Enneker †; Heinrich Klingshirn; Christian K. Lackner; Leonhard Schweiberer †; Erwin Stolpe; Renate Kugler; Cornelia Kugler; Kathrin Löffler; Christiane Waegele: Gerhard Kugler memorial . 1935-2009. Foreword by Erwin Stolpe. German English. Wolfsfellner MedizinVerl., Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-933266-70-5 , (Erwin Stolpe, p. 46).
  10. ^ First rescue helicopter comes to the Deutsches Museum - Archive. In: car box. Hanno S. Ritter, accessed December 9, 2019 .
  11. ^ Air Medical Journal
  12. ↑ Copterweb
  13. ^ Kugler Air Rescue Symposium
personal data
SURNAME Kugler, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German air rescue pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bodenbach
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 2009