Horst Klinkmann

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Horst Klinkmann (2nd from right) in 1988 in the Clinic for Internal Medicine at the University of Rostock

Horst Klinkmann (born May 7, 1935 in Teterow ) is a professor of internal medicine , nephrologist and researched primarily in the field of artificial organs . In particular, he played a decisive role in the development of dialysis with artificial kidneys as a comprehensive system in the health care system of the GDR.

Life

Klinkmann grew up in children's homes. His father Walter Klinkmann (employee) had died in World War II, his mother Henny Klinkmann died when he was 10 years old. He studied human medicine at the University of Rostock from 1954 to 1959 and received his doctorate here at the Medical Faculty in 1959 with the dissertation "Investigations into the effectiveness of the sugar-alcohol mixture on the circulatory system - with special consideration of the vegetative starting position of the test subjects". His profound academic teachers include Harald Dutz (Rostock and Berlin), Willem Kolff ( Salt Lake City ) and Nils Alwall (Lund, Sweden).

After completing his studies, he completed his specialist training from 1960 to 1966 at the physiological institutes of the universities in Rostock and Budapest , at the University Polyclinic Rostock and at the Kidney Clinic in Lund / Sweden . He obtained his habilitation on the subject of “The uremic dysequilibrium syndrome - animal experiments in acute kidney failure for the pathogenesis and active therapy of uremia” at the Medical Faculty of the University of Rostock. From 1969 to 1970 Klinkmann was a visiting professor for eleven months at the University of Utah in the USA .

In 1971 Klinkmann was appointed professor for internal medicine at the University of Rostock . His sub-specialization was nephrology . In 1974 Klinkmann was appointed director of the Clinic for Internal Medicine at the Wilhelm Pieck University in Rostock . He was effective here for almost 20 years and during this time he built up a scientific area of ​​GDR-wide importance. During this time, dialysis with artificial kidneys was introduced throughout the GDR. This development ran parallel to the introduction of the kidney transplant system of the GDR by Moritz Mebel from Berlin.

In 1982 Horst Klinkmann was appointed President of the Council for Medical Sciences of the Ministry of Health of the GDR. This council worked with the country's health policy makers and medical-scientific societies. The centralization and state control of research in the GDR guaranteed the main representatives of these bodies considerable power within the country's research apparatus. Klinkmann had been a member of the SED since 1974 and was a member of the Rostock SED district leadership from 1984 to 1989.

In mid-1990, Klinkmann was elected as the last president of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW) from a group of six candidates by representatives of the scholars and employees. He held this office in succession to Werner Scheler until the AdW was liquidated in 1992. He has been a Corresponding Member of the AdW learned society since 1982 and a full member since 1986.

At the beginning of the 1990s, the Science Council of the Federal Republic of Germany under its then chairman Dieter Simon co-opted the internationally known and recognized scientist Horst Klinkmann. In the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the need to evaluate not only the research institutions of the affiliated former GDR, but also the whole of the new Federal Republic was discussed.

In 1992 the Honorary Commission of the University of Rostock Klinkmann tested "insufficient personal aptitude" and recommended that he be dismissed as a professor because of his political activities in the GDR. The exact misconduct of Klinkmann was not made public; a labor law agreement between the university and the accused provided that the findings of the honorary commission were treated confidentially.

Since 1992 Klinkmann has been dean of the International Faculty for Artificial Organs (INFA) based at the University of Bologna in Italy and director and honorary professor of the National Institute for Medical Materials at Nanjing University in the PR China. He is an honorary doctorate at 13 and honorary professor at 3 international universities. In 1977 he received the National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class for science and technology, and in 1985, 1st class in a collective. Horst Klinkmann has been the fifth honorary citizen of his native Teterow since June 27, 1985 .

Klinkmann married Hannelore Klinkmann, who holds a doctorate in orthopedics , b. Kruse; the couple has one grown son.

Memberships, functions, awards (selection)

Member of science academies

Honorary memberships in medical societies

Klinkmann belonged to 17 national and international medical societies (selection):

  • Italian Society of Nephrology
  • African Society of Nephrology
  • Hungarian Society of Nephrology
  • Austrian Society for Artificial Organs
  • Polish Society of Internal Medicine
  • European Dialysis and Transplant Nurses Association.

Functions in national and international scientific organizations

  • President BioCon Valley MV e. V.
  • Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BioCon Valley® GmbH
  • Honorary President of the International and European Society for Artificial Organs
  • President of the World Apheresis Society
  • Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Healthcare Industry (2004–2015), then Honorary President.

Other memberships and functions

  • Member of the East German government's discussion group under Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder
  • Chairman of the supervisory board of the Hansa Rostock football club (1996–2008), then honorary chairman
  • Chairman of the German-Japanese Society Rostock, honorary president since 2006
  • Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival since 2010.
  • Scientific advisor to the state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on the introduction and implementation of spa and medicinal forests since 2011.

Academic degrees of honor

Honorary doctorate (Dr. hc) at 13 international universities (selection):

  • Marseille, France (1985)
  • Debrecen, Hungary (1986)
  • Glasgow, UK (1988)
  • Nankai University, Tianjin, PR China (1992)
  • Skopje, Macedonia (1997)
  • Silesian University, Katowice, Poland (1997)
  • University of JP Safarik, Kosice, Slovakia (1997)
  • Bologna, Italy (2010),

Honorary professor (Prof. hc) at 3 international universities:

  • Nankai University, Tianjin, PR China (1991)
  • International Medical Association, Bulgaria (1995)
  • University of Skopje, Macedonia (1997).

National and international awards

Klinkmann has received more than 50 awards at national and international level (selection):

  • National Prize for Science and Technology of the GDR (1977, 1985)
  • Purkinje Medal, Czechoslovakia (1982)
  • Pro Universitate National Award, Hungary (1984)
  • Honorary citizenship of the city of Teterow (1985)
  • Cleveland Distinguished Research Award, Cleveland, USA (1987)
  • Vanguard In Dialysis Medal, USA (1995)
  • Dr. Barney Clark Prize, ASAIO & Medforte Research Found, USA (1995)
  • Gold Medal of Honor, University JP Safarik, Kosice, Slovakia (1997)
  • Italian National Prize, Accademia Nazionale di Medicina, Italy (2002)
  • Order of Merit of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (2002)
  • ESAO - Bücherl Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2007)
  • Sports badge of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (2009)

Publications (overview)

  • More than 500 publications including books and book chapters
  • 38 patents in the field of medical technology / blood purification
  • Member of the editorial board of 10 international scientific journals
  • Editor / co-editor of scientific journals (selection):
    • Artifical Organs , Cleveland, USA, since 1979
    • International Journal of Artifical Organs , Milano, Italy, from 1992 to 2010
    • Transfusion and Apheresis Science , Amsterdam - London, since 2000
    • Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation , London, UK, until 1993
    • Journal for the whole of internal medicine and its border areas , Leipzig, until 1991
    • Journal for Urology and Nephrology , Berlin, until 1990
    • Journal for Clinical Medicine , Berlin, until 1990
    • Medizin aktuell , Berlin, until 1991
    • Spectrum , Berlin, until 1992
    • Science and Progress , Berlin, until 1992.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No question of honor , Die Welt , 2002
  2. ↑ Eager to Service , Der Spiegel , 2004
  3. ↑ Academic history: Academy President Professor Dr. Horst Klinkmann in conversation, recorded on June 4th and 12th, 1991 by Herbert Wöltge. In: Herbert Wöltke (Hrsg.): Colloquium "Cooperate, Network, Implement" on July 14, 2015 in Rostock-Warnemünde, patronage Erwin Sellering , Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, in honor of Horst Klinkmann on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Meeting reports Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Volume 127, year 2016, pp. 139–144. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2016, pp. 111-137, ISBN 978-3-86464-133-6 .
  4. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Horst Klinkmann at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on February 19, 2018.
  5. ↑ kur-und-heilwaelder.de Wald-Kongress-2017 (accessed on September 17, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Klinkmann, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Teterow