Hans Wilhelm Bansi

Hans Wilhelm Bansi (born March 22, 1899 in Metz ; † March 15, 1982 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor . The internist did research in the fields of endocrinology and metabolism .

Life

Hans Wilhelm Bansi was the son of General of the Artillery Paul Bansi . After military service at the end of the First World War and after a serious injury, he studied medicine at the University of Berlin and, after defending his dissertation About oxidase reaction on exudate monocytes to Dr. med. PhD . He then became an assistant doctor at the Medical Clinic of the Charité under Wilhelm His , then senior physician in the medical department under Hermann Zondek in the Am Urban hospital in Berlin. He completed his habilitation in 1929 and became an adjunct professor in 1935.

From 1934 he was chief physician of the medical department of the Erwin-Liek hospital in Berlin-Reinickendorf . At the beginning of the Second World War he headed the internal department of the Charlottenburg-Westend hospital as a medical officer, then he became a consultant internist for various army groups. a. the Army Group in the middle of the Eastern Front . After the war he was chief physician at the General Hospital Langenhorn for a short time, then from 1947 to 1967 chief physician at the 1st Medical Clinic at the General Hospital St. Georg in Hamburg . In the first post-war years, an appointment to the professorship of the II. Medical Clinic of the Humboldt University (Charité) in Berlin was unsuccessful due to the objection of the Soviet occupying power.

Research activity

His scientific work concerned endocrinology, especially thyroid diseases . The circumstances of the post-war period led him to research on the consequences of hunger , and his monograph The Hunger Edema and Other Alimentary Diseases was published . On the basis of this work he was later appointed a member of the Royal Society of Medicine in London . He continuously observed the consequences of malnutrition in the returning prisoners of war and was consequently the first authority for the authorities in their medical assessment. He was called the "father of those returning home". Furthermore, after the introduction of thyreostatics and nuclear medicine diagnostics, he again dealt with diseases of the thyroid gland. In cooperation with the surgeons and nuclear medicine specialists, a modern center for thyroid diseases was created at the St. Georg Hospital. Further research concerned the water balance and electrolyte balance and the amino acid metabolism . His liberal management of the clinic enabled the assistants to work in other areas, so that the cardiology clinic and the hematology department emerged from this clinic. In 1967 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Publications

• The hunger edema and other alimentary diseases. Enke, Stuttgart 1949.
• Thyeotoxicoses and antithyroid substances. Thieme, Stuttgart 1951
• Iodine. In: Artificial radioactive isotopes in physiology, diagnostics and therapy. Springer, Heidelberg 1953.
• The diseases of the thyroid gland. In: Handbook of Internal Medicine. Springer, Heidelberg 1955.
• Thyroid disease. In: Clinic of the Present. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1956.
• For the medical assessment of cardiovascular death. Fundamental opinion. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1966.

literature

• W. Stepp: HW Bansi for his 60th birthday. In: Medical Clinic. Vol. 54, 1959, p. 517.
• G. Laubinger: Prof. Hans Wilhelm Bansi on his 75th birthday. In: Hamburger Ärzteblatt. No. 4, 1974.
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1976 and 1980.
• G. Schwarting: In memory of Prof. Dr. HW Bansi. In: Hamburger Ärzteblatt. No. 5, 1982.
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .

Web links

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