Hermann Redetzky

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Hermann Redetzky (born August 10, 1901 in Lüben , † February 22, 1978 in Eichwalde ) was a German hygienist, university professor and deputy minister for health in the early GDR .

Live and act

The son of a senior tax inspector ended his school career in 1919 at the grammar school in Thorn . He then completed a medical degree at the universities of Greifswald, Breslau and Königsberg, which he graduated with a state examination in 1924. In 1925 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD and approved . From 1925 to 1930 he worked as an assistant doctor in Berlin and Bad Rehburg , including as an accident and admission doctor at the Charité and the Rudolf Virchow Hospital , and attended the Social Hygiene Academy. He finished his specialist training as an internist in 1930 and passed the district medical exam. In that year he joined the SPD . From 1930 he worked as a medical assessor in the medical administration of the Berlin police headquarters, where he was assigned to the department of quacking and drug control. In 1932 he moved to the Prussian Ministry for People's Welfare , where he dealt with a planned reform of the district doctor status.

In the course of the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Redetzky resigned from the civil service at his own request in February 1933 in protest against the Nazi regime. He then practiced as a resident internist in Berlin-Südende and Neustrelitz until 1939 . During the Second World War he did hospital service in Neustrelitz, Stettin and Schwerin , most recently as a medical officer in the reserve. After the end of the war, he was briefly in American captivity in 1945.

After his release, he was involved in building up the health system in Mecklenburg . Redetzky, who joined the SPD in 1930 , became a member of the SED in 1946 . In the same year he was appointed ministerial director, he became head of the main health department in the Höcker I cabinet . At the same time, he founded the first polyclinic in Germany in Schwerin in 1946 , and became its chief physician. After completing his habilitation for social hygiene at the University of Rostock in 1947 , he worked there until 1948, initially as a private lecturer and then as a part-time professor until 1953. In 1948/49 he was director of the Berlin Central Institute for Social and Industrial Hygiene , which he founded. From 1955 until his early retirement in 1964 as a result of a heart attack, he worked there as a full professor and rector at the now Academy for Social Hygiene, Industrial Hygiene and Medical Training, or from 1961 the German Academy for Medical Training. He was appointed senior medical officer in 1962.

From 1953 to 1956 he was Deputy Minister for Health in the GDR and from 1954 to 1958 a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED . From 1962 he was a member of the Council for Planning and Coordination of Medical Science at the Ministry of Health of the GDR, the Presidium of the Vienna-based International Society for Prophylactic Medicine and Social Hygiene, the Scientific Council of the International Society for Research on Food and Vital Substances and from 1959 as a corresponding or from 1961 as a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . From 1949 he published the journal for advanced medical training .

Honors

  • Honored Doctor of the People (1952)
  • Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1961)
  • Honorary member of the Society for Allergy and Asthma Research (1962)
  • Honorary Senator of the German Academy for Medical Training Berlin (1964)
  • Gold Hufeland Medal (1964)
  • Honorary member of the German Society for Overall Hygiene in the GDR (1964)
  • Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold (September 14, 1966)
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock (1971)

Fonts (selection)

  • Tracheopathia osteoplastica. 1925, medical dissertations from the University of Königsberg.
  • Development, standardization and democratization of the public health system. Arbeitsgem. Medicine. Publishers, Berlin 1948, habilitation thesis at the University of Rostock,
  • Our polyclinics. Development, tasks and goals. Publishing house Volk. and health, Berlin 1954.
  • Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland. Social hygienist u. People's educator - a great doctor and philanthropist. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1964 (= meeting reports of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Class for Medicine; Born 1964, No. 1).

literature

  • Redetzky, Hermann, Dr. med. In: Alfons Labisch , Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the standardization of the health system" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany. Part 2. Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, ISSN 0172-2131, p. 476.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia, Poethen – Schlueter. 2nd, revised edition, K. G. Saur Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25038-5 , p. 231.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia, Poethen – Schlüter , Munich 2007, p. 231
personal data
SURNAME Redetzky, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist, university professor and politician (SPD, SED)
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüben
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1978
Place of death Eichwalde