Gotthard Schettler

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Friedrich Gotthard Schettler (born April 13, 1917 in Falkenstein / Vogtland ; died April 20, 1996 in Heidelberg ) was a German internist and university professor .

Life

Gotthard Schettler was the son of a pastor. After graduating in 1936, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service . From 1937 he studied medicine at the universities of Jena , Leipzig , Vienna and Tübingen . He signed up as a war volunteer for the Air Force in 1941 , but retired because of an injury . In the same year he joined the NSDAP . In the National Socialist German Student Union he became a student leader in Thuringia . 1942 doctorate he in Tübingen Dr. med. Nothing is known about its denazification .

In 1950 he completed his habilitation in Tübingen. He went to the Philipps University of Marburg , which appointed him extraordinary professor in 1955 . In 1956 he became head of the Bad Cannstatt hospital and lecturer at the University of Tübingen. At the Free University of Berlin since 1961 , in 1963 he accepted the call from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg to the chair of internal medicine at the Heidelberg University Clinic and at the same time headed the Ludolf Krehl Clinic. In 1986 he retired . From 1986 to 1990 he was President of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Schettler was a pioneer in arteriosclerosis research . He was also a doctor in the medical assessment of reparation requests from victims of National Socialism. "Although Schettler advocated recognition of arteriosclerosis as a supply ailment among returnees from captivity, he generally rejected identical claims from victims of Nazi persecution in his reports." He was a member of the German Senate for Medical Training of the German Medical Association . From 1977 to 1985 he was President of the International Arteriosclerosis Society.

Honors

Honorary doctorates and professorships
Memberships in academies
Orders and awards
Professional societies
Namesake
  • “ Celenus Gotthard Schettler Clinic” in Bad Schönborn
  • 1992: Honorary Citizen of Falkenstein
  • 2017: On the occasion of his 100th birthday, Falkenstein named a gym in May as the "Gotthard Schettler Sports Hall". The city council had ignored the publicly available evidence of his activity as a NSDAP functionary. In December the lettering on the gym was removed after a dispute lasting for weeks.

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

  • The effect of the German climate after a long stay in the tropics (taking into account the material in the tropical convalescent home). 1942 (dissertation, University of Tübingen, 1942).
  • Nutrition and cholesterol metabolism - experimental chemical-analytical and morphological studies. [1950] (Habilitation thesis, University of Tübingen, 1950).
  • Old age diseases. 2nd Edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 1972.
  • Man is as young as his vessels. Atherosclerosis, heart attack, stroke, circulatory disorders. Origin, risks, prevention, treatment. Piper, Munich 1982; last, with Hubert Mörl: 5th edition. Piper, Munich 1991.
  • with Jochen Vogel: Lipid storage diseases. Thieme, Stuttgart 1987.
  • with Leonore Arab-Kohlmeier, Wolfgang Sichert-Oevermann: Iron supply and iron status of the population in the Federal Republic of Germany. Springer, Berlin 1989.
  • Experienced and imagined. 50 years as a doctor, scientist and university professor. Ullstein Mosby, Berlin 1993.

As editor:

  • Internal Medicine. a concise textbook. 2 volumes. Thieme Stuttgart 1969; last, with Heiner Greten : 9th edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-13-552209-1 .
  • The Heidelberg University Hospital and its institutes. A report by the clinic and department directors on the history and tasks of the clinics and institutes at the Heidelberg University Hospital, presented on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the university. Springer, Berlin 1986.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christian Pross : reparation. The guerrilla war against the victims. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-610-08502-9 , p. 209.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 532.
  3. ↑ EB: Honored. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . Vol. 84, H. 46, Nov. 12, 1987, pp. A-3154 (on- line ).
  4. ↑ Susanne Kiwitter: Pfau calls Schettler honor a shame for Falkenstein , in: Freie Presse , November 14, 2017, accessed on February 10, 2018.
  5. ↑ Naming "Gotthard Schettler Sporthalle" , from City of Falkenstein, May 22, 2017, accessed on February 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ https://www.freipresse.de/vogtland/auerbach/die-schattseite-von-professor-schettler-artikel10016665
  7. ↑ Cornelia Henze: “Gotthard Schettler spoils Falkenstein's honor” , in: Vogtland-Anzeiger, January 3, 2018, accessed on February 8, 2018.
  8. ^ Falkenstein gymnasium: Controversial Schettler lettering removed , in: Freie Presse , December 15, 2017, accessed on February 8, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schettler, Gotthard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schettler, Friedrich Gotthard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkenstein / Vogtland
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1996
Place of death Heidelberg