Hans Burghart

Hans Burghart (born March 22, 1936 ) is a German doctor . Until his retirement on March 31, 2003, he was Medical Director of the Munich-Perlach District Hospital and is considered one of the many founders of German air rescue.

As a result of one of his initiatives, Germany's first civilian and permanently manned rescue helicopter “ Christoph 1 ” was put into service at the Munich-Harlaching Municipal Hospital (today: Harlaching Clinic ).

He was also chairman of the Munich district association of the Bavarian Red Cross (BRK) for 22 years and a founding member of the medical column and later Grünwald's readiness of the BRK.

Hans Burghart has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class. He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on June 20, 2001 by the then Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber . The German Red Cross also honored him in 2009 with the "Human Adventure" medal.

Before working at the Perlach District Hospital, he was a doctor at the Munich-Harlaching Municipal Hospital. There he once received a rebuke from the city for providing emergency care to an injured child in front of the hospital and bringing it to the clinic with a nurse. The ruff did the opposite: Burghart began to create a concept for air rescue in his spare time (presumably an RTH station anecdote).

Together with the Bavarian Red Cross, the DTC (Deutscher Touring Automobil Club, Munich; a small competitor of the ADAC), and the Bundeswehr, which parked a helicopter from Oberschleissheim airfield on a few weekends, he began a rescue helicopter service around Whitsun 1970 on weekends and during the holidays to be realized from the Harlaching Hospital. These operations have not yet been documented in detail. For cost reasons, the Bundeswehr then had to drop its support. It is not known to what extent DTC fulfilled its promises to take over the financing.

Hans Burghart in front of "Christoph 1" in Munich-Harlaching on June 1, 2007

The ADAC and MBB, publicly known, were working flat out in the middle of 1970 on the completion of a new rescue helicopter with an MBB Bo 105 machine, but for various reasons (type approval, change of the hospital location) the first regular service of a civil rescue helicopter could not be carried out until November 1, 1970 kick off. The inauguration and naming of "Christoph" took place on Sept. 29, 1970.

On January 20, 1975, Hans Burghart presented German air rescue for the first time at a congress in Los Angeles. From 1st to 5th In May 1978, Burghart and other pioneers of German air rescue at the time presented the “German Air Rescue Concept” (“Rescue Helicopters in Primary and Secondary Missions”) at a congress in the USA : with Gerhard Kugler and Ingo Karger (ADAC headquarters, Accident Rescue Department ) and Bodo Gorgaß (Ulm, Head of the Bundeswehr Rescue Center). The experience of German air rescue received special attention in Fort Rucker, Alabama, training center for helicopter pilots.

Burghart worked together with Gerhard Kugler and Per Krueger on the creation of the ADAC congress volume on the 1st International Air Rescue Congress, 1980 in Munich, in the function of "technical processing".

Web links

History of the air rescue station Christoph 1 (pdf) - there Burghart with a concise caricature by Gerhard Kugler, ADACOPTER, drawings of a development

Individual evidence

↑ Hans Burghart: Comparative tissue electrophoretic studies of the esophageal muscles during operations on the cardia . Ed .: Munich, Med. F., Diss. January 9, 1964, DNB 482398043 .
↑ Lothar Langner, Hans-Ulrich Suckert: Air rescue in Germany . Wolfsfellner Medizin-Verl., Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-9802271-3-1 (p. 56 ff. Success has many fathers).
^ Article by Münchner Merkur about Burghart's award of the Red Cross Medal "Human Adventure" with evidence of his election as chairman in 1987 and his award of the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class. (February 1, 2009)
^ Report of the readiness of the Munich Red Cross on Burghart's departure and Kronawitter's election as chairman of the Munich district association. (March 24, 2009, online )
↑ Gerhard Kugler: ADACOPTER-2 memories . Werner Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-933266-62-0 , p. 30–34, chap. A3 .
↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: First aid by air, ceremonial “stacking lift” for the ADAC's first rescue helicopter . Munich November 30, 1970.
^ Hans Burghart: Medical Aspects of Rescue Operations by Helicopters . Lecture in Los Angeles on January 20, 1975. Quoted in: Martin Frey: Possibilities and limits of air rescue for emergency patients. University of Mainz, Faculty of Medicine, Dissertation, Mainz 1976, p. 45.
↑ Gerhard Kugler: ADACOPTER, recordings of a development . Werner Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-933266-77-4 , p. 185-188, chap. C3 .
^ AGARD: Operational Helicopter Aviation Medicine . Edited by Colonel SC Knapp, MC, Fort Rucker, Alabama. In: AGARD ADVISORY GROUP FOR AEROSPACE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (ed.): Papers presented at the Aerospace Medical Panel's Specialists' Meeting held at Fort Rucker, Alabama, USA, 1-5 May 1978 . CP-255. Neuilly Sur Seine, France December 1, 1978 (English, nato.int ).
^ Gerhard Kugler, Hans Burghart, Per Krueger, Hans Hennig Atrott: The air rescue: results, analyzes, developments; Report on d. 1. Internat. Air Rescue Congress from September 16-19, 1980 in Munich = Aeromedical evacuation . In: General German Automobile Club. Hauptabteilung Verkehr (Ed.): Road Traffic Series, 25 . ADAC, chief dept. Transport, Munich 1981, DNB 810806010 .

personal data
SURNAME	Burghart, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1936

[1] Hans Burghart: Comparative tissue electrophoretic studies of the esophageal muscles during operations on the cardia . Ed .: Munich, Med. F., Diss. January 9, 1964, DNB 482398043 .

[2] Lothar Langner, Hans-Ulrich Suckert: Air rescue in Germany . Wolfsfellner Medizin-Verl., Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-9802271-3-1 (p. 56 ff. Success has many fathers).

[3] Article by Münchner Merkur about Burghart's award of the Red Cross Medal "Human Adventure" with evidence of his election as chairman in 1987 and his award of the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class. (February 1, 2009)

[4] Report of the readiness of the Munich Red Cross on Burghart's departure and Kronawitter's election as chairman of the Munich district association. (March 24, 2009, online )

[5] Gerhard Kugler: ADACOPTER-2 memories . Werner Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-933266-62-0 , p. 30–34, chap. A3 .

[6] Süddeutsche Zeitung: First aid by air, ceremonial “stacking lift” for the ADAC's first rescue helicopter . Munich November 30, 1970.

[7] Hans Burghart: Medical Aspects of Rescue Operations by Helicopters . Lecture in Los Angeles on January 20, 1975. Quoted in: Martin Frey: Possibilities and limits of air rescue for emergency patients. University of Mainz, Faculty of Medicine, Dissertation, Mainz 1976, p. 45.

[8] Gerhard Kugler: ADACOPTER, recordings of a development . Werner Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-933266-77-4 , p. 185-188, chap. C3 .

[9] AGARD: Operational Helicopter Aviation Medicine . Edited by Colonel SC Knapp, MC, Fort Rucker, Alabama. In: AGARD ADVISORY GROUP FOR AEROSPACE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (ed.): Papers presented at the Aerospace Medical Panel's Specialists' Meeting held at Fort Rucker, Alabama, USA, 1-5 May 1978 . CP-255. Neuilly Sur Seine, France December 1, 1978 (English, nato.int ).

[10] Gerhard Kugler, Hans Burghart, Per Krueger, Hans Hennig Atrott: The air rescue: results, analyzes, developments; Report on d. 1. Internat. Air Rescue Congress from September 16-19, 1980 in Munich = Aeromedical evacuation . In: General German Automobile Club. Hauptabteilung Verkehr (Ed.): Road Traffic Series, 25 . ADAC, chief dept. Transport, Munich 1981, DNB 810806010 .