Herbert Blaha

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Herbert Blaha (born October 9, 1918 in Bamberg , † July 14, 2002 ) was a German thoracic surgeon and lung specialist , one of the most famous in the Federal Republic of Germany after the Second World War.

Life

After completing high school, Blaha was a mountain hunter in the Second World War in the Metten Monastery and at the Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich (Abitur there in 1937) . In January 1944 he took his state examination in medicine in Munich and worked from 1945 to 1948 in Schönbrunn near Dachau , an alternative hospital for the city of Munich . From 1948 to 1949 he moved to the 2nd Medical Clinic at the University of Munich .

After his appointment as a specialist in lung diseases, Blaha worked at the Hemer Lung Clinic from 1949 to 1953 , at the Prince Abdul Ilah Hospital from 1953 to 1956 in Baghdad and at the Surgical University Clinic in Frankfurt am Main from 1956 to 1965. This was followed by an appointment as a specialist in surgery.

In 1963 he completed his habilitation on the subject of "Newer Techniques in Lung and Bronchial Surgery". From 1965 to 1983 he was chief physician and medical director of the Gauting Central Hospital of the Upper Bavaria State Insurance Institute and from 1975 to 1976 President of the German Society for Pulmonary Medicine and Tuberculosis . In 1982 he was President of the Bavarian Surgeons. He received the Federal Cross of Merit .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1936/37
personal data
SURNAME Blaha, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German thoracic surgeon and lung specialist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 2002