Herbert Britz

Herbert Britz (born December 17, 1917 in Cologne ; † March 29, 2011 ibid) was a German doctor and co-founder and first chairman of the Marburger Bund .

Life

Herbert Britz was the son of the Cologne bank director Wilhelm Britz and the post office clerk Sanna Britz. He was strongly Catholic at home. After graduating from high school (1937) at what was then Real-Pro-Gymnasium Nippes , he was only drafted for garrison use and postponed from military service.

Britz then studied medicine at the University of Cologne . After the Physikum in 1939 he went to Munich for the first clinical semester, as Cologne was closed to the front . He passed the state examination in 1941 and received his doctorate in 1942 under Professor Coerper with a thesis on the history of medicine on midwifery in the Hanseatic city of Cologne . He started his first position as an assistant doctor in surgery at the Cologne-Mülheim hospital . There he was the successor of Ottmar Kohler , who served as a field doctor in the 6th Army in Stalingrad . When this hospital was destroyed by bombs on October 28, 1944, he had to go to the Westwall near Wassenberg as head of a first aid station for the Todt Organization . Before that, he could still get married. From his marriage to the kindergarten teacher Anneliese Britz, who died in 2001, he had six children. During his lifetime he had eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren through them.

As a physician returned from the war and initially unpaid assistant doctor at the Cologne-Ehrenfelder St. Franziskus Hospital and chairman of his fellow assistants (later senior physician, then stations at the Cologne-Merheim hospitals and at the surgical polyclinic of the University of Cologne), he helped initiate the project in 1946 the establishment of a working group of young doctors within the Medical Association, which received enormous popularity. So he was then sent by this working group as a delegate to the meeting of medical students and young doctors from all four occupation zones , which was convened by the AStA of the University of Marburg in 1947 , and who founded an interest group for young doctors there.

At the first meeting of all Marburgers in 1948, he was elected first chairman of the doctors' union, later known as the Marburger Bund, which then took its seat in Cologne. He kept this office until he left his salary and established himself as a general practitioner in Cologne in 1952. Britz was most recently a specialist in general medicine, surgery and occupational medicine. He left because he was applying for a settlement because of his children. He was successful because of his number of children and despite his youth, not least because he was able to guarantee practice rooms in the house of his in-laws that had not been destroyed. He was made an honorary member of the Federation in 1954. Britz was also a co-founder of the Hartmannbund and there deputy chairman of the state association of North Rhine.

Britz was politically active in the CDU , was a member of the Cologne city council from 1952 to 1969 and was a member of the sports committee there. Until old age he was active in the Cologne Bund New Germany and in the Association of Catholic Men and Women (KMF). In addition to the North Rhine Medical Association, he worked for a long time at the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, most recently as chairman.

Honors

For his services as a medical officer he received numerous awards, including the reflex hammer of the Marburger Bund, the Hartmann-Thieding plaque of the Hartmannbund, the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and most recently the Great Federal Cross of Merit . Posthumously in 2011 he was awarded the Paracelsus Medal , the highest distinction of the German medical profession.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Daniel Schäfer: Between discipline and instruction, attempts at reform of academic midwifery training in the enlightened imperial city of Cologne. (PDF; 6.2 MB) In: Bergdold u. a .: Cologne contributions to the history and ethics of medicine. Kassel 2010, p. 26 (accessed April 2011).
^ Britz on the prehistory of the Marburger Bund ( Memento from October 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed April 2011)
↑ Details after the interview with "Erlebte Geschichte"
^ Gabi Langen: Sport and Leisure Policy in Cologne 1945–1975. Dissertation. Sport University Cologne, 2006, ISBN 3-89665-419-5 .
↑ Obituary notice Kölner Stadtanzeiger 2nd / 3rd April 2011, p. 14
↑ Vita and laudation on the occasion of the awarding of the Paracelsus Medal of the German medical profession at the beginning of the 114th German Medical Congress in Kiel 2011 ( Memento from December 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Britz, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor and professional politician (Marburger Bund)
DATE OF BIRTH	December 17, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	March 29, 2011
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Daniel Schäfer: Between discipline and instruction, attempts at reform of academic midwifery training in the enlightened imperial city of Cologne. (PDF; 6.2 MB) In: Bergdold u. a .: Cologne contributions to the history and ethics of medicine. Kassel 2010, p. 26 (accessed April 2011).

[2] Britz on the prehistory of the Marburger Bund ( Memento from October 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed April 2011)

[3] Details after the interview with "Erlebte Geschichte"

[4] Gabi Langen: Sport and Leisure Policy in Cologne 1945–1975. Dissertation. Sport University Cologne, 2006, ISBN 3-89665-419-5 .

[5] Obituary notice Kölner Stadtanzeiger 2nd / 3rd April 2011, p. 14

[6] Vita and laudation on the occasion of the awarding of the Paracelsus Medal of the German medical profession at the beginning of the 114th German Medical Congress in Kiel 2011 ( Memento from December 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )