Heinrich Bredt

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Heinrich Bredt (born January 29, 1906 in Oberneudorf , Transylvania , † November 1, 1989 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German doctor and pathologist . From 1948 he worked as a professor and institute director at the University of Leipzig and from 1959 to 1974 at the University of Mainz . In addition, he was Vice President of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina from 1953 to 1958 and President of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature from 1971 to 1979 .

Life

Heinrich Bredt was born in Oberneudorf in Transylvania in 1906 and graduated from high school in Bistritz in 1924 . He then studied medicine at the University of Graz and from 1925 to 1929 at the University of Tübingen . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Graz, Tübingen and Berlin . The medical state examination, he was in 1930 in Berlin , where he is also a year later received his doctorate and 1935 as part of his work as an assistant at the Institute of Pathology, Charité at Robert Roessle also habilitated was. In August of the same year he went to the University of Leipzig as a private lecturer , where he became a prosector in 1936 .

Bredt, who had acquired German citizenship in 1931 , joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in 1933 and worked as a doctor for the Hitler Youth . In 1935 he became a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare Association (NSV) and the National Socialist Medical Association . During the Second World War , he served as a field prosector and as a consultative pathologist on the Eastern Front . After he was appointed in 1942 at the front extraordinary professor, he came two years later, first in Romania and later in Soviet captivity . During this time he was employed as a doctor in a hospital and as an interpreter for Romanian .

After his release from captivity in 1946, he initially took over the chair of forensic medicine at the University of Leipzig in 1947/1948 . From 1948 he then acted in Leipzig as successor to Werner Hueck as full professor for general pathology and pathological anatomy and director of the Institute for Pathology and from 1951 to 1955 also as dean of the medical faculty. At the beginning of April 1959 he moved to the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as professor for general pathology and pathological anatomy and institute director , where he also took over the office of dean in 1962/1963 and worked until his retirement in 1974.

Heinreich Bredt was married from 1936 and had a son, the microbiologist Wolfgang Bredt (* 1937). After the death of his wife in 1987, he moved in with his son, who at that time held the chair of microbiology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . Bredt died in 1989 in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Scientific work

Heinrich Bredt's scientific interests focused on pathological studies of malformations of the human heart , diseases of the vascular system and age-related complaints. In particular, he dealt with the research of arteriosclerosis .

Awards

Heinrich Bredt was a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin from 1955, a corresponding member from 1966 and an external member from 1969, and a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences from 1951 and a corresponding member from 1959 . From 1951 he was also a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , for which he held the office of Vice President from 1953 to 1958. In the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature , which made him a member in 1965, he worked from 1969 to 1971 as vice-president for their math and science class and from 1971 to 1979 as president. In 1954 he received the National Prize of the GDR , in 1976 the Gutenberg plaque of the city of Mainz and in 1979 the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

Works (selection)

  • Tumors in the mouth and jaw area. Series: Dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine in lectures. Issue 15. Munich 1955 (as editor)
  • About Death: A Scientific Consideration. Series: Reports on the negotiations of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Volume 103. Berlin 1958
  • Atherosclerosis: aetiology, pathology, clinic and therapy. Stuttgart 1961 (as co-author)
  • Extreme living conditions and organic vascular disease: Summary report on the influence of extreme living conditions on the development and worsening of arterial occlusive diseases. Series: Series of publications of the Federal Supply Gazette. Issue 4. Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne and Mainz 1967

literature

  • Marc Zirlewagen: Heinrich Bredt . In: East German Memorial Days 2005/2006. Personalities and historical events. Cultural Foundation of the German Displaced Persons, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-88557-219-2 , pp. 270-273.
  • Bredt, Heinrich . 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. 45.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 27.

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personal data
SURNAME Bredt, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and pathologist as well as President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberneudorf , Transylvania
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1989
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau