Hans Drischel

Hans Drischel (born  June 8, 1915 in Cologne , †  May 14, 1980 in Leipzig ) was a German doctor , physiologist and bio-cyberneticist . From 1958 he worked as a professor of physiology and as institute director at the University of Greifswald and from 1959 until his death in the same function at the University of Leipzig .

Life

Hans Drischel was born in Cologne in 1915 and studied medicine at the University of Breslau from 1934 to 1939 , where he also received his doctorate in 1941 . From 1941 to 1949 he was a military doctor and then, as a prisoner of war, head of an outpatient clinic in a Soviet camp. From 1949 he worked as a senior physician at the mining hospital in Schneeberg . In 1951 he began his work at the Physiological Institute of the Medical Faculty of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald . Here he completed his habilitation in 1955 and was appointed lecturer in the same year. In 1958 he was appointed professor and institute director. A year later he was appointed to succeed Erich Bauereisen as director of the Physiological Institute of the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig . Here he worked until his death. His successor was his colleague Peter Schwartze .

Hans Drischel is one of the founding fathers of biocybernetics in Germany and worldwide. With his interest in biological control systems, he shaped the research direction of the Leipzig Institute until his death and beyond, which was named Carl Ludwig Institute for Physiology on his initiative in 1969. From 1967 to 1977 he organized five international symposia on biocybernetics in Leipzig . The materials from these symposia appeared in volumes 1 to 5 “Biokybernetik”. He died in Leipzig in 1980 a few weeks before his 65th birthday of a high blood pressure-related hemorrhage in the brain . Most of his estate is in the archive of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.

Memberships and honors

Hans Drischel was an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences from 1963. From 1964 he belonged to the Saxon Academy of Sciences and from 1966 was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and a full member of the German Academy of Sciences, the later Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1967 he received the GDR National Prize . In 1968 he became a member of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). From 1968 to 1977 he was a member of the council of the International Union of Physiological Sciences.

Works (selection)

• Introduction to biocybernetics. Berlin 1972
• The Oculomotor System: Physiological and Clinical Aspects. Leipzig 1979

literature

• Drischel, Hans . In: Werner Hartkopf:The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992,ISBN 3-05-002153-5, p. 78.
• Peter H. Lässig: Hans Drischel - a bio-cyberneticist in the GDR. In: Frank Dittmann, Rudolf Seising: Cybernetics infects the East. Rise and difficulties of an interdisciplinary science in the GDR. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89626-603-3 , pp. 191-230

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Drischel in the catalog of the German National Library