Heinrich Otto Kalk

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Heinrich Otto , short Heinz Kalk (born July 1, 1895 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 4, 1973 in Kassel ) was a German internist , hepatologist and university professor.

Life

Lime was after high school in the First World War officer in the artillery . He studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg , the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and passed his state examination in 1921. In Marburg he became a member of the Alemannia fraternity in 1914 , in Freiburg he joined the Franconia fraternity in 1918 . In 1921 he received his doctorate and was initially an assistant doctor at the Frankfurt Surgical and Medical Clinic. In 1927/28 he went to the 2nd Medical University Clinic of the Charité , where he became a senior physician and stayed until 1934. In 1928 he completed his habilitation and taught as a private lecturer at Berlin University, today's Humboldt University . In 1933, Kalk became a professor of internal medicine there, and in 1934 director of the second internal department in what was then the Horst Wessel hospital, now the hospital in Friedrichshain . Groundbreaking developed by him and there in 1936 presented method was laparoscopy , with the internist for the first time had the opportunity to make the abdomen diagnosis directly visible.

The NSDAP stepped lime in 1937 and also belonged to the Nazi Medical Association on. As an enthusiastic private pilot , he became a member of the National Socialist Air Corps , where he achieved the rank of Oberführer .

During the Second World War , Kalk served as a senior physician and consultant internist in the Air Force . On official air travel, he often sat by himself at the controls, he flew, for example, personally, the last medical machine from the Stalingrad out. As a doctor, Kalk also treated Field Marshal Erhard Milch . In a statement dated January 26, 1965, Eugen Haagen stated that he worked with Heinz Kalk, Ludwig Zukschwerdt and Franz Büchner during the war on hepatitis research.

After the end of the war, he was chief physician in the municipal hospital in Berlin-Hohengatow from 1946 to 1947, in the central clinics in Göppingen from 1948 to 1949 and in the Möncheberg city hospital in Kassel from 1949 to 1963 . From 1955, Kalk was an honorary professor at the University of Göttingen . After retiring as a doctor in the public service, he founded a private hepatological specialist clinic in Bad Kissingen in 1963 , which he managed until 1971. Kalk's scientific reputation was based on numerous studies on gastric, intestinal, liver, gallbladder and pancreatic diseases. Rudolf Caracciola and Pius XII. , who knew Kalk from his time as Nuncio in Berlin, sought treatment from Kalk, whereby the Pope consulted the Protestant Kalk incognito. In 1952 the Argentine government called him to the bedside of the president's wife Evita Peron , but like his colleagues Hans Hinselmann and Paul Uhlenbruck , who had also moved here, he could no longer help the terminally ill . Among his students was u. a. Valentin Argirov .

Honors

Numerous domestic and foreign medical societies made Kalk an honorary member. In 1960 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit. He received the Ernst von Bergmann plaque for services to further medical training in 1963, the coat of arms of the city of Kassel in 1970. His Heinz Kalk Hospital in Bad Kissingen, which was named after him, was later taken over by Rhön-Klinikum AG and demolished in 2009.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Heinrich Otto Kalk . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  2. ↑ a b c d e Egmont Wildhirt:  Kalk, Heinrich-Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 60 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Heinz Kalk in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  4. ↑ Willy Nolte : Fraternity members regular role. Berlin 1934, p. 232.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 296.
  6. ↑ a b c d Klaus Becker: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Otto Kalk - man who could not save Evita. (PDF; 12.4 MB) Jerome No. 1/2011, p. 30
  7. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 370f.
  8. ^ Siegfried Farkas: Kalk-Klinik: Demolition has begun. In: Mainpost , February 21, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Kalk, Heinrich Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kalk, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hepatologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1973
Place of death kassel