Herbert Gardemin
Herbert Gardemin (* 1904 in Berlin-Tegel ; † October 27, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German orthopedist and university professor.
Life
After studying medicine, he worked as a medical intern at the Britz City Hospital . There Lothar Kreuz set up the first independent orthopedic department of a Berlin hospital. From Britz, Gardemin went to the Charité to Hermann Gocht . As chief physician he worked for a short time at the German Institute for Vertebral Tuberculosis in Klotzsche- Königswald near Dresden (Dr. Julius von Finck), again in Britz and a few years later at the sanatorium in the Berlin-Buch municipal hospital . After the Second World War , Gardemin took over the position of chief orthopedic physician at the forest hospital in Berlin-Spandau . In January 1954 he followed Lindemann as head of the large cripple home Annastift in Hanover . In 1961 he was appointed full professor and professor at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . In his last years he was dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg .
His main areas of work were pediatric orthopedics , degenerative joint diseases and physical medicine and rehabilitation .
1949 Gardemin had at the Humboldt University of Berlin habilitation . In 1952 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin .
Honorary positions
Gardemin was chairman of the German Orthopedic Society and led the orthopedic congress in Hamburg in 1966. He was a member and board member of numerous medical societies. In 1968 he was elected Corresponding Member of the British Orthopedic Association .
Interests
He played the piano and golf and loved Theodor Fontane . He was a member of the Corps Normannia Berlin (1923) and Saxonia Kiel (1925). When his Jewish friend and colleague Ernest E. Neustadt was targeted by the National Socialists, Gardemin “asked” the SS “not to leave Neustadt's Iron Crosses from the First World War ”. Neustadt was able to emigrate to the USA unmolested. In his obituary for Gardemin, he wrote:
“He represented the best, the purest of Germanness. He was proud, not presumptuous; national, not nationalistic; social, not socialist. "
literature
- J. Harff: Gardemin for the 60th birthday , 1964
- Ernest E. Neustadt: In memoriam Herbert Gardemin . Zeitschrift für Orthopädie 106 (1969), pp. 649-650
Web links
- Literature by and about Herbert Gardemin in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 5/425; 77/249
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gardemin, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German orthopedist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin Tegel |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1968 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |