Gustav von Bergmann Medal

The Gustav von Bergmann Medal was the highest award of the German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM). Between 1994 and 2010 members of the society were awarded for their life's work.

The Gustav von Bergmann Medal was named after the internist Gustav von Bergmann (1878–1955). In 2013 the DGIM reassessed Bergmann's lifetime achievement. As vice dean at the Berlin Charité in 1933, he implemented in the faculty that all Jews were released. From 2013, the DGIM awards in place of Gustav von Bergmann Medal , the Leopold-Lichtwitz medal in memory of the Jews Leopold Lichtwitz was (1876-1943), the 1933 Chairman of the DGIM, but the company - like many other Jews - had to leave under pressure from the board.

Award winners

• 1994: Hans Erhard Bock , Tübingen
• 1996: Gotthard Schettler , Heidelberg
• 1999: Rudolf Gross , Cologne
• 2000: Paul Schölmerich , Mainz, Walter Siegenthaler , Zurich
• 2001: Wolfgang Gerok , Freiburg im Breisgau, Hanns Gotthard Lasch , Gießen
• 2004: Werner Creutzfeldt , Göttingen
• 2005: Karl-Hermann Meyer zum Büschenfelde , Mainz
• 2007: Volker Diehl , Cologne, Hans-Peter Schuster , Hildesheim
• 2008: Peter C. Scriba , Munich
• 2009: Meinhard Classen , Munich
• 2010: Kurt Kochsiek , Würzburg

Web links

• Gustav von Bergmann Medal at the German Society for Internal Medicine (dgim.de)
• The DGIM in the time of National Socialism - exhibition opens with the Central Council of Jews. ( Memento of May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) DGIM press release of April 19, 2015.