Hans Blömer

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Hans Blömer (born May 29, 1923 in Bad Tölz ; † April 22, 2020 ) was a German physician . He is considered a pioneer of invasive cardiology and pacemaker therapy in Germany.

Life

Hans Blömer was the son of a general practitioner in Kelheim an der Donau. After his school days in Metten , military service in Italy and studying medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he graduated with a doctorate in 1950, he first became a physiologist . Blömer received his cardiological training in the leading centers of the time, in Stockholm with Gustav Nylin , in London with John McMichael and Paul Wood and at the Mayo Clinic , USA, with Howard Bertram Burchell and Earl Howard Wood .

Act

Blömer established the first modern cardiology department in Munich at the Technical University of Munich. In 1954 he performed the first cardiac catheterization in Munich and developed phonocardiography and auscultation into important diagnostic methods. Hans Blömer completed his habilitation in 1957 and was appointed adjunct professor at LMU Munich in 1964 . Since June 1, 1960, he was chief physician of the 1st Medical Department (focus on cardiology, angiology and pulmonology ) at the hospital on the right of the Isar . In 1967 he was appointed full professor of internal medicine and director of the I. Medical Clinic of the Technical University of Munich at the Klinikum rechts der Isar and established one of the leading cardiological university clinics. In 1980 he was President of the German Society for Cardiology . In 1992 he retired.

honors and awards

Due to his services to the German Society for Cardiology (DGK) he was made an honorary member, the “Young Investigator Award” of the DGK for clinical cardiovascular research was named after him. He has received numerous honors and prizes, including the Ernst von Bergmann Plaque (1987), the Werner Forßmann Prize, the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art .

Publications (selection)

  • Heart failure and cerebral blood flow. With special consideration of blood volume, venous pressure and cardiac output . Munich 1957 (habilitation thesis, LMU Munich, 1957).
  • Gustav Bodechtel , Hans Blömer: The heart defects. their symptomatology and hemodynamics . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1963 (2nd, improved edition 1968).
  • Auscultation of the heart and its hemodynamic basis . With a foreword by Gustav Bodechtel. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1967 (2nd, unchanged edition 1969).
  • The man at the interface between medicine and technology on the example of the electrical pacemaker . Donau Courier, Ingolstadt 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Blömer's obituary notice. SZ, accessed April 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Blömer-Young Investigator Award for Clinical Cardiovascular Research. German Society for Cardiology - Heart and Circulatory Research eV, accessed on October 11, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b Hans Blömer: 80 years. (PDF) On May 29, 2003, Hans Blömer, emeritus professor for internal medicine I at the Technical University of Munich, celebrated his 80th birthday. In: TUM Mitteilungen, 5 - 02/03. Technical University of Munich, p. 53 , accessed on October 11, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b Professor Dr. H. Blömer retires. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Bayerisches Ärzteblatt 8/1992. P. 269 , archived from the original on October 16, 2014 ; accessed on October 11, 2014 .
  5. ↑ DNB 481846816 , title entry of the dissertation in the catalog of the German National Library , accessed on October 13, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b c Gernot Klein: Hans Blömer: The patient in focus. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2013: 110 (25). P. 42 , accessed on October 11, 2014 .
  7. ↑ a b c Professor Dr. Hans Blömer 80 years. (PDF) In: Bayerisches Ärzteblatt 7/2003. P. 397 , accessed April 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Blömer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and cardiologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Tölz
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2020