Hans Joachim Einbrodt

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Hans Joachim Einbrodt (born June 12, 1927 in Unseburg ; † June 9, 2007 in Aachen ) was a German doctor and hygienist .

Life

Hans Joachim Einbrodt was born in 1927 as the son of the art photographer Alfred Heinrich Einbrodt. In Magdeburg he attended elementary school from 1933 to 1937 and then the Bernold Otto Oberschule for boys until 1944, before he was called up for the Reich Labor Service in July 1944 . Sent to the front as a tank grenadier in October 1944 , after the end of the war he was interned as a Soviet prisoner of war in Special Camp 7 in Sachsenhausen , where he worked as an assistant nurse, corpse bearer and section assistant in the camp hospital. He learned his first basic medical knowledge from German doctors who were also imprisoned. He owes the Russian chief physician that he was not convicted and deported to the Soviet Union , but was released in February 1950.

Einbrodt began his professional and scientific career after returning from captivity in March 1950 at the Medical Research Institute of the Max Planck Society in Göttingen , where he began studying human medicine at the Georg August University from the 1950 winter semester . In Göttingen he became a member of the Holzminda fraternity . He passed his state examination in 1956, received his license to practice medicine in June 1957 and received his doctorate in 1958 . From 1956 to 1963 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine at the University of Göttingen. In 1964 he completed his habilitation . He then worked as a scientific adviser and as a private lecturer for hygiene and occupational medicine at the Institute for Dust Lung Research and Occupational Medicine at the University of Münster , where he became an adjunct professor in 1968 and took over the management of the institute in June 1969. In the same year he followed a call to the newly created chair for hygiene at the RWTH Aachen .

One of his main focuses of scientific activity is the field of environmental protection . So he was immediately pushed into the environmental discussion that arose with great passion at the RWTH. Since he was also authorized to teach occupational medicine in addition to hygiene - he was a specialist in both areas, the faculty agreed in 1971 to rename the department or institute to "Hygiene and Occupational Medicine" and in 1972 created the teaching and research field "Industrial Hygiene" ". Einbrodt founded the Scientific Society for Environmental Protection , of which he became chairman. Another focus was on silicosis research . He was chairman of the contaminated site commission of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Until his retirement on July 31, 1992, he headed the Institute for Hygiene and Occupational Medicine. From 1974 to 1984 he was the responsible hygienist in charge of the new building of the Aachen Clinic . In 1988, the first environmental medical ambulance in Germany was set up at his institute . Almost 250 scientific papers testify to his fruitful professional work.

Fonts

  • The disruption of tissue with formamide as a new method for the histochemical representation of inorganic substances with examples of sections from silicotic lungs. Göttingen 1958, dissertation.
  • Author in: Basic questions from silicosis research. Volume 3-6. Bochum, 1959–1964.
  • Quantitative and qualitative studies on dust retention in the human lungs. Bochum 1965.
  • Editor of the journal Science and Environment (ISU) .

Honors

literature

  • Dietrich Arndt and Thomas Eikmann: In memoriam Hans Joachim Einbrodt (1927–2007). In: Environmental medicine in research and practice. Volume 12, 2007, issue 4, pp. 199–200. pdf

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt 89, Issue 36, of September 4, 1992, p. 2888. pdf
personal data
SURNAME Einbrodt, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, hygienist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Unseburg
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2007
Place of death Aachen