Hans Haller (doctor)

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Hans Haller (born December 17, 1920 in Bautzen ; † November 2, 2018 ) was a German internist with a focus on diabetes mellitus , lipid metabolism disorders , endocrinopathies and the conception of the " metabolic syndrome ". He was involved in the introduction and co-development of sulfonylureas in the German Democratic Republic ; was a lecturer from 1961, from 1966 professor with teaching assignment and from 1969 full professor for internal medicine at the Medical Academy "Carl Gustav Carus" in Dresden.

Life

After his 1939 with Vitzthum-Gymnasium Dresden stored High School studied Haller until 1945 at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Innsbruck medicine. After he was granted his license to practice medicine in 1945, he worked as a compulsory assistant at the Infection Hospital Dresden- Trachau , the District Hospital Ebersbach and the City Hospital Dresden-Friedrichstadt between 1945 and 1948, followed by a position as an assistant doctor at the Medical Clinic there.

After Haller in 1945 at the University of Innsbruck with the thesis "The cancer in Tyrol and Vorarlberg" doctorate was, he received in 1952 his specialist Approval of Internal Medicine and in the same year a senior physician at the Medical Clinic at the Hospital Dresden-Friedrichstadt and head of Diabetic Advice Center and the Metabolism Station.

Haller was a teacher at the Technical College for Medical Personnel in Dresden until 1958 , then moved to the Carl Gustav Carus Medical Academy in 1958 , where he became senior physician at the Clinic for Internal Medicine and lectured in internal medicine and pathological physiology. Hans Haller completed his habilitation in 1961 on the subject of "Methodical and clinical investigations on paper chromatography of urine sugar", became a lecturer in internal medicine on June 1, 1961 , professor with teaching assignment on February 1, 1966 and full professor of internal medicine on September 1, 1969 at the Medical Academy Carl Gustav Carus in Dresden.

At the same time as he was appointed to the chair for internal medicine, Haller also took over the directorate of the Academy's medical clinic on September 1, 1969. He held this office until 1975. As a result, Haller was vice-rector for natural sciences and medical research between 1975 and 1981 and, from 1979, again director of the medical clinic and head of the department for endocrine pathologies and metabolic diseases.

When he reached retirement age, the physician retired in 1986 , but continued to work on scientific committees until he left the Carl Gustav Carus Medical Academy in 1991.

Memberships

  • 1971–1986: Member of the board of the Society for Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases of the GDR
  • 1972–1974: Chairman of the Society for Internal Medicine of the Medical Academy Dresden
  • 1974–1978: Chairman of the Society for Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases of the GDR
  • since 1981: Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • 1980–1986: Coordinator of the research area “fat metabolism” in the GDR
  • 1984–1989: Chairman of the specialist commission for internal medicine in the Dresden district
  • 1986–1990: Member of the Council of Elders at the Council of Medical Sciences

Honors

  • 1965: Hufeland Medal (GDR) in silver
  • 1975: Medical Councilor (GDR)
  • 1978: Honored Doctor of the People
  • 1979: Theodor Brugsch Medal
  • 1980: Selmar Aschheim Medal
  • 1981: Senior Medical Councilor
  • 1981: Maxim Zetkin Medal of the Society for Clinical Medicine
  • 1983: Honorary member of the Union of Scientists of Bulgaria (Nutrition Section)
  • 1984: Honorary member of the Hungarian Arteriosclerosis Society
  • 1985: Gold Medal of Honor of the DRK of the GDR
  • 1987: Honorary Senator of the Medical Academy Carl Gustav Carus
  • 1988: Max-Bürger Medal from the Society for Internal Medicine of the GDR
  • 1994: Honorary member of the Saxon Society for Internal Medicine
  • 2006: Honorary member of the Saxon Society for Metabolic Diseases and Endocrinopathies

Fonts

  • with Stanley Ernest Strauzenberg : Peroral diabetes therapy. , Leipzig 1959.
  • Methodical and clinical studies on paper chromatography of uric sugar. , Dresden 1961.
  • with Stanley Ernest Strauzenberg: Oral diabetes therapy. , Leipzig 1966; Moscow 1973.
  • with Hanefeld Markolf and Werner Jaross : lipid metabolism disorders. , Jena 1975, 1989; Moscow 1979.

literature

  • Haller, Hans . In: Caris-Petra Heidel and Marina Lienert (eds.): The professors of the Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus Dresden and its predecessor institutions 1814–2013 . Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-86780-376-2 , Professors of the Medical Academy and Medical Faculty Dresden, p. 153-154 .
  • Jan Schulze, Hans-Egbert Schröder: Obituary for Prof. Dr. med. habil. Hans Haller. In: Ärzteblatt Sachsen. 12/2018, p. 596.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , in: Sächsische Zeitung of November 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Hans Haller at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 10, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Haller, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen
DATE OF DEATH 2nd November 2018