Gerhard Riecker

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Gerhard Riecker (born February 2, 1926 in Karlsruhe ) is a German cardiologist and from September 1, 1974 to March 31, 1994 was director of the 1st Medical Clinic at the Großhadern Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich .

Life

Gerhard Riecker completed his school days in Mannheim. In 1944 he was called up for military service and ended up in American captivity at the end of the war. During this time he was able to begin his medical studies in the USA in 1946. From 1947 to 1951 he studied at the University of Heidelberg and graduated in the summer of 1951 with a state examination and doctorate.

From July 1951 to August 1952 he began his professional activity in the Pharmacological Institute of the University of Heidelberg (F. Eichholtz). In August 1952 he moved to the Physiological Institute of the University of Marburg (K. Kramer), and from January 1954 he finally turned to internal medicine in the Medical Polyclinic of the University of Marburg (H. Schwiegk).

Schwiegk was appointed director of the 1st Medical Clinic at the University of Munich in the fall of 1958. Riecker followed him to Munich, was recognized on March 7, 1960 as a specialist in internal medicine and on September 6, 1960, he was appointed private lecturer in internal medicine. Between 1963 and 1968 he was the senior physician in charge of the 1st Medical Clinic at the University of Munich under Schwiegk. On January 4, 1966, he was appointed adjunct professor.

In the summer of 1968 Riecker was appointed director and full professor to the chair for internal medicine II at the University of Göttingen and he follows this call. However, when he was appointed to the chair of internal medicine and director of the Medical Polyclinic at the University of Bonn in 1972 (successor to Walter Siegenthaler ), he did not accept the appointment. Instead, he received the cardiology specialist on October 11, 1972 and applied in Munich.

He was appointed to the chair for internal medicine and as director of the Medical Clinic I at the newly established Großhadern Clinic of the University of Munich and began his new job on September 1, 1974.

Between 1974 and the day of his retirement on March 31, 1994, he built the new clinic into an internationally renowned institute with the support of a large staff, which achieved numerous pioneering achievements. Riecker has made a name for himself as an author, editor, co-editor and expert reviewer of numerous textbooks and specialist articles (many of them have been translated into other languages), has received visiting professorships (including in London and Buenos Aires), has worked in many specialist institutions and committees, was President of the German Society for Cardiovascular Research and received numerous prizes and honors.

In the period after his retirement, Riecker entered into a humanities and philosophical dialogue with medicine, which was influenced by the natural sciences, and wrote books such as “Knowledge and Conscience - About the Ambivalence and the Limits of Modern Medicine” and the “Labyrinth”.

Gerhard Riecker lives with his wife Brigitte Riecker († 2018), b. Bender (marriage 1952) in Pullach near Munich and dedicates himself to stainless steel sculptures and abstract computer art in his own workshop.

Research focus of the Medical Clinic I, University of Munich (1974–1994)

cardiology
  • Cardiomyopathies, heart failure, including molecular-biochemical studies
  • Viral carditis, including genetic engineering
  • Cardiac arrhythmias, antitachycardia systems, including ablation techniques
  • Coronary artery disease, including atherectomy technique
  • Immune diseases of the heart
Nephrology
  • Kidney transplant
  • Immune disorders of the kidney
  • Dialysis techniques, including biophysics of technical membranes
Pulmonology
  • Immune diseases of the bronchi and lungs, including molecular-biological methods
  • Occupational medicine

Activities as editor, co-editor and expert reviewer

editor
  • "Shock" in the "Handbook of Internal Medicine", Springer-Verlag
  • “Therapy of Inner Diseases”, 1st to 8th edition, Springer-Verlag
  • "Clinical Cardiology", 1st - 4th edition, Springer-Verlag
Associate Editor
  • "Klinische Wochenschrift", Springer-Verlag
  • "Der Internist", Springer-Verlag
Expert reviewer
  • German Research Foundation
    • Collaborative Research Centers
    • Heisenberg Electoral Committee
  • various federal ministries

Membership in scientific societies

  • European Society for Clinical Investigation
  • German Society for Internal Medicine
  • Medical Association, Munich
  • Collegium for Therapy Research, Munich
  • German Society for Cardiovascular Research
    • its president in 1983
  • New York Academy of Sciences
  • International Fellow of the American Heart Association
  • Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors
  • Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty (University of Munich)
    • Chairman from 1978 to 1984
  • Ludwig Heilmeyer Society for Advances in Internal Medicine

Publications

More than 300 publications in specialist medical journals in the field of physiology, internal medicine and cardiology:

subjects
  • Pathophysiology of the contractility of the heart
  • Cardiomyopathies, heart failure
  • Water and mineral balance, edema pathogenesis
  • Volume regulation of the organism
  • shock
  • Medical ethics
  • Basics of medical decision-making processes

u. a .:

  • 1952 Development of semi-synthetic cardiac glycosides
  • 1954 First description of the pressure-volume diagram of the warm-blooded heart
  • 1963 First method for measuring single fiber potentials of human skeletal muscle cells in situ
  • 1966 First description of the electrogenic mechanism of periodic hypokalemic muscle paralysis
  • 1967 First description of the cellular myotonic reaction in Myotonia congenita (Thomsen)
  • 1997 Development of a knowledge-based diagnostic computer program "CardioConsult" together with B-doll (Univ. Würzburg)

further:

  • Basics of medical decision-making , medicine. Clinic 88, 263 (1993), No. 4th
  • The doctor - mediator between a mechanistic and a humanistic-philosophical worldview
  • Medical decisions in internal medicine: Basics, test questions, case reports Vol. I and II , MedWork-Verlag, Pullach, 1996
  • with Erdmann, E. (eds.): Chronic Heart Failure , Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1998
  • CARDIOCONSULT. Cardiological Second Opinion Program (CD-ROM) Ullstein Medical Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Wiesbaden, 1998
  • Questions and answers on internal medicine , Verlag Hans Huber, Bern, 2000
  • Knowledge and conscience. - On the ambivalence and the limits of modern medicine , Springer-Verlag Heidelberg-New York, 2000
  • Advances in Medicine and Ethical Responsibility , Münchner Ärztliche Werbung 51/52, December 23, 2000
  • Humans in Modern Medicine: Empirical Object or Moral Subject? In: To the debate. Topics of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria , ISSN  0179-6658 , vol. 31, 2001, issue 3, pp. 16-17.
  • The labyrinth - the broken thread of Ariadne , RGFischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., 2006
  • with Scheidt, v. W. Questions and answers on internal medicine , Verlag Hans Huber, Bern, 2nd edition, 2007

Visiting professorships

  • 1970 Hammersmith Hospital, London (Prof. Shillingford) + National Heart Institute, London (Prof. Olson) (at the invitation of the British Heart Foundation)
  • 1972 Hospital for Clinical Investigation, Buenos Aires, (Prof. Lanari)
  • 1974 Hôpital Lariboisiére, Paris
  • 1994 Kaunas Medical Academy (Lithuania)
  • 1994 Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Prague

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Gerhard Riecker at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Riecker, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cardiologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe , Germany