Hanns Peter Wolff

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Hanns Peter Wolff (born August 28, 1914 in Tsingtau , Kiautschou protected area ; † December 6, 2010 ) was a German internist and nephrologist .

Career

Hanns Peter Wolff's father was the chief physician of the government hospital in the German colony of Tsingtau in China. The son attended schools in Shanghai and Wroclaw . He then studied medicine in Munich and Breslau, where he passed the state examination in 1939. Wolff initially worked at the Institute for Physics and at the Institute for Biochemistry at the University of Munich. He then worked from 1944 to 1951 at the 1st Medical University Clinic in Munich. During this time he completed his habilitation in 1948. His path led him to Marburg , where he took the position of senior physician at the Medical University Polyclinic. In 1961 he followed a call to the chair for internal medicine at the Saarland University in Homburg . There he was responsible for setting up the Medical University Polyclinic. In 1968 he moved to the University of Mainz as director of the I. Medical Clinic , which remained his place of work until his retirement in 1980.

The focus of his research was the search for the causes of arterial hypertension; he was particularly interested in the hormonal system of the renin-aldosterone axis. Under his leadership, the most important focus of the I. Medical Clinic of the University of Mainz was nephrology. Wolff set up a department for renal replacement therapy under the adventurous technical requirements and chronic kidney diseases, as well as an independent department and research facility for arterial hypertension. The second focus of the clinic under his leadership was the gastroenterology department with the expansion of endoscopic diagnostics.

Wolff was chairman of the German Society for Internal Medicine in 1964/65 and 1974/75 and later chairman of the Society for Nephrology . From 1977 to 1986 he was Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Medical Association .

In 1987 Wolff was awarded the Paracelsus Medal at the German Medical Association . In addition, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Together with Thomas Robert Weihrauch, Wolff was the editor of "Wolff / Weihrauch", internal therapy, a standard work for over 30 years.

literature

  • Birgit Hibbeler: Hanns Peter Wolff. Charismatic scientist . Deutsches Ärzteblatt 107 (2010), C 2187

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personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Hanns Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Tsingtau
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2010