Gert Huffmann

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Gert Huffmann (born January 10, 1930 in Königsberg i. Pr .; † March 22, 2011 in Marburg ) was a German neurologist. He was the first director of the Neurological University Clinic and Polyclinic in Marburg, where he taught and researched as a C4 professor for neurology from 1980 to 1996.

Life

Gert Huffmann grew up in Königsberg and graduated from high school in Kassel , Jüterbog and Minden . At the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn he studied Protestant theology , comparative religious studies and human medicine . In 1950 he became a member of the Corps Brunsviga Munich, which was then based in Bonn . After the state examination in 1955 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He then worked for two years in Bonn and at the Physiological Institute of the University of Cologne . Then he began his neurological training in the local university neurological clinic. The specialist certification as a doctor for neurology and psychiatry was followed by senior physician activities in Cologne and Essen. Back in Cologne, he completed his habilitation in 1966 with a large clinical study on brain damage in early childhood for both subjects. In 1971 he was appointed adjunct professor. Another step in his career was in 1979 when he was appointed Medical Director of the Lower Saxony State Hospital in Lüneburg .

At the beginning of 1980 he followed the call of the Philipps University of Marburg to the newly created chair for neurology. The first years in Marburg were marked by the establishment of a modern neurological clinic, which had to be organically developed from the old neurological clinic. For the first time, the subject neurology had to be represented there independently and a corresponding academic teaching established. At the same time, Professor Huffmann continued to pursue his scientific focus area - clinical neurophysiology - so that a generously equipped and equipped laboratory was created. Over the years, numerous patients with peripheral nerve damage and neuromuscular diseases have been examined and diagnosed here, resulting in numerous scientific projects and publications. The interdisciplinary collaboration that has become increasingly necessary in recent years for this group of patients ultimately led to the establishment of the "Muscle Center Marburg / Gießen" in 1995.

Until 2009, Huffmann held a neuropsychiatric colloquium , which was attended by students of medicine and psychology, but also lawyers. Huffmann was also a seminar leader and speaker at the international training congresses of the Federal Medical Association and the Austrian Medical Association in Davos .

When in 1990 the first Marburg neurology congress, which he organized to mark the 10th anniversary of the clinic, was attended by over 300 colleagues from all over Germany, the decision was made to repeat this clinically oriented three-day event annually. The “Marburg Neurologist Conferences”, which he largely influenced, developed into a permanent institution. Huffmann published the yearbooks with the prepared lectures.

Huffmann published around 260 scientific publications from the entire field of neurology, psychiatry and clinical neurophysiology, including a large monograph and 35 co-authored or edited books and manuals. In addition to several specialist societies, he was a member of the advisory board of the German Medical Association from 1987 and was an expert at the Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination Questions in Mainz. In 1996 a center and dormitory for young physically handicapped people was opened in Gladenbach / Hesse, and he played a key role in its realization as the first chairman of the “Circle of Friends”. On October 28, 1996, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Huffmann was married and had two sons and a daughter.

Works

  • The neurological and psychological defect syndrome in early childhood brain damage . Stuttgart 1968.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 24 , 375
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Electrophoretic studies on the influence of gynecological x-ray castrations on the serum protein image .
  3. ↑ Neuropsychiatric Colloquium ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Disability Center Gladenbach ( Memento from February 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Huffmann, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2011
Place of death Marburg