Herbert Begemann

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Herbert Begemann (born May 4, 1917 in Münster , Westphalia; † April 6, 1994 in St. Peter , Black Forest) was a German hematologist and oncologist .

Begemann received his doctorate in medicine ( agranulocytosis after surgical interventions ) at the University of Cologne in 1941 . In 1951 he qualified as a professor at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau ( clinical and experimental observations on immunized lymph nodes ), where he (under Ludwig Heilmeyer ) was head of the hematological laboratory. He was professor of internal medicine in Munich and chief physician of the first medical department and medical director of the Munich-Schwabing municipal hospital .

Begemann was with Ludwig Heilmeyer the editor of the atlas of clinical hematology and was the editor and also author of many parts of the second volume (dedicated to blood and blood diseases) of the manual of internal medicine in the fourth (1951 with Ludwig Heilmeyer) and fifth edition after the Second World War .

In 1972/73 he was chairman of the German Society for Internal Medicine and the Wiesbaden Congress of Internal Medicine .

He was active against nuclear armament in the 1960s and was a founding member of the International Doctors for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). In 1961 he published the first comprehensive German-language account of the development of leukemia in the radiation victims of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki . One of his scientific focal points was leukemia and he considered radioactivity to be hazardous to health even in low doses.

Begemann campaigned for the memory of the Jewish hematologist Hans Hirschfeld , murdered in 1944 , by dedicating the 9th edition of his practical hematology to him in 1988. He also published on conscientious objection , pacifism and was active in the peace and anti-nuclear movement. He was also critical of scientific medicine, hospital hierarchies, and the traditional doctor-patient relationship.

His clinical hematology (with Hans-Günther Harwerth) was first published by Thieme in 1959 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The blood and its diseases, Wiesbaden, Lugano: Aesopus Verlag 1969
  • with Ludwig Heilmeyer (editor): Atlas of clinical hematology, Springer 1955, 4th edition 1987
  • Publisher: Practical Hematology, Thieme Verlag, 9th edition in 1988 (the 11th edition was published by his son Michael Begemann in 1999).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-3-662-05877-0%2F1.pdf page 5
  2. ↑ DOCTORS: Gap widened - DER SPIEGEL 18/1973. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  3. ^ Biographies of members of the IPPNW
  4. ^ Begemann, Development of Leukemia after Radiation Exposure . In: B. Schlegel (Ed.), Sixty-Sixth Congress. Negotiations of the German Society for Internal Medicine, Volume 66. JF Bergmann-Verlag 1961, pp. 757-774
personal data
SURNAME Begemann, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Munster , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1994
Place of death St. Peter , Black Forest