Horst Kalthoff

Horst Kalthoff (born June 9, 1926 in Bremen ; † April 17, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German ophthalmologist and author.

Life

Kalthoff's school attendance in Bremen from 1933 was dragged out by the Second World War : Because of the air raids on Bremen in April 1941, he was sent to Sonthofen in the Allgäu with the children's area . From January 1942 he served for more than a year with the home flak battery as an anti-aircraft fighter. In February 1943 he and his school class served as an air force helper in the 8th Flak Division for a year . From February to April 1944 he was with the Reich Labor Service (RAD) near Varel. From July 1, 1944, he did his service in the Air Force (anti-aircraft cartillery) and, after training in Breslau , came to the Ruhr area / Dortmund for “frontline probation” . From April 13, 1945 to March 6, 1946, he was first in French, then - from November 11, 1945 - in American captivity .

After graduating from high school in 1948, Kalthoff was finally able to begin studying medicine in Hamburg in 1949 . He completed it in 1955 with the state examination. 1955/56 he worked at the Hamburg Tropical Institute , then at the Städt. Hospital and in the Altona Eye Clinic . From 1956 to 1963 he worked as a tropical doctor in Liberia (West Africa). In 1963 he began training as an ophthalmologist in Wuppertal -Barmen, soon afterwards in Stuttgart . In 1969 he opened a practice in Berlin. Together with Dr. In 1974, Friedrich Kruse founded the Berlin eye specialist training. Shortly before his 70th birthday (1996), Kalthoff ended his practice and started writing. Most recently he lived and worked in Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der Augenarzt (Journal of the Professional Association of Ophthalmologists Germany eV) Vol. 51, Issue 3, June 2017, p. 137.

literature

• The therapy of Framboesia tropica . Dissertation , typescript . o. O. 1954.
• Doctor in Liberia . Liberia, country and people, between 1956 and 1963 and its history up to the present. Ad Manum Medici, Germering / Munich 1996, ISBN 3-928027-19-0 .
• A youth in Bremen and Hamburg 1926–1956. Donat, Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-934836-21-6 .
• Illustrated history of the Kalthoff family in Bremen. Berlin 2002.
• Emil Felden . In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon. Volume XXII (2003), Verlag Traugott Bautz, columns 316-319.
• A total of 7 articles in the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon.
• "I was a democrat and a pacifist." The life of the German-Jewish citizen Otto Hecht (1900–1973) and the fate of his relatives. Donat, Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-938275-00-6 .
• Johannes Fuchs - ophthalmologist in the 20th century - a piece of medical history. Kaden, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-922777-74-0 .
• The Rutenbergs - Life in the 19th Century. Father builder and brewer in Bremen, son ophthalmologist and naturalist. Kaden, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-922777-89-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Kalthoff in the catalog of the German National Library