Hans-Werner Schlipköter

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Hans-Werner Schlipköter (born August 25, 1924 in Nias , Dutch East Indies , today Indonesia ; † March 12, 2010 ) was a German physician. He was considered one of the fathers of environmental medicine in Germany.

Life

Schlipköter was the son of the missionary Emil Schlipköter , who also worked in Indonesia, studied medicine at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Tübingen and received his doctorate with a thesis on spinal cord tumors in children at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . From 1951 he was assistant at the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology with Walter Kikuth and turned to the research of silicosis ( pathogenesis , therapy), which was a problem for miners especially in the Ruhr area. In 1955 he completed his habilitation and became head of the Institute for Experimental Silicosis Research in Bochum- Hordel. In 1962 he was the founding director of the Institute for Air Hygiene and Silicosis Research (from 1980 Medical Institute for Environmental Hygiene) of the Medical Academy (later University of Düsseldorf ), which he remained until 1995. In 1965 he became a professor at the newly founded University of Düsseldorf and director of the Institute for Hygiene. In 1974 he was dean of the medical faculty in Düsseldorf. From 1978 to 1980 he was rector of the university and from 1980 until his retirement in 1989 he was vice-rector for finance.

Schlipköter was an advisor to the North Rhine-Westphalian state government and the federal government on environmental medicine issues. In particular, his institute dealt with issues of air pollution, which has been a central political issue for the SPD in the Ruhr area since the 1960s, and Schlipköter was on many national and international commissions and bodies, such as the advisory board of the German Medical Association and the WHO . The immission limit values ​​of the "TA-Luft" in the 1974 version were essentially based on the work of his institute. In 1979 his institute was renamed the Medical Institute for Environmental Hygiene (MIU), which Schlipköter headed until 1995. One of the first environmental medical advice centers in the Federal Republic of Germany was established there in 1989 and the North Rhine-Westphalia Cancer Atlas was drawn up in the 1990s. Many of the environmental medicine specialists trained by Schlipköter later held leading positions in authorities and in research.

In 1968, Schlipköter and Arthur Brockhaus received the Robert Koch Prize for their work on the prevention and therapy of quartz dust silicosis with the polymer PVNO . He also received the Johannes Weyer Medal of the Medical Association of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Great Federal Cross of Merit , the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , the Gold Medal of Honor from the University of Düsseldorf and an honorary professorship from the University of Beijing . Schlipköter was both a member of the board of directors and the advisory board of the Air Quality Commission and received the Medal of Honor from the Association of German Engineers (VDI) in 1976 . In 1991 he was a co-founder of the Society for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine (GHU). As Vice Director of the GHU, he organized the 1st International Congress of Environmental Medicine in Duisburg in 1994.

With Heinz-Erich Wichmann and Georges Fülgraff , he edited the manual for environmental medicine.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It was dissolved in 2003. The successor is the Institute for Environmental Medicine Research (IUF) at the University of Düsseldorf
  2. ^ Friedrich Spiegelberg: Keeping the air clean in the course of time . 1st edition. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-18-419088-9 , p. 127, 130, 131 .
personal data
SURNAME Schlipköter, Hans-Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Nias
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2010