Hugo Wilhelm Knipping

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Hugo Wilhelm Knipping (born July 9, 1895 in Dortmund , † December 25, 1984 in Bonn ) was a German scientist , professor of medicine, chemist, doctor and recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit and numerous other awards.

Live and act

Knipping, Dr. med. and Dr. rer. nat. was associate professor in Hamburg since 1930 . After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he signed on 11 November 1933, the commitment of German professors to Adolf Hitler , who increased his career advancement. In 1934 he was appointed professor at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf , whose rector he became in 1936. In 1939 he became head of the Lindenburg Medical Clinic in Cologne and chair of internal medicine. There he first specialized in research into metabolic, heart and lung diseases (“Father of Spiroergometry"). He rounded off his research with long expeditions to the Far East and Latin America.

After the war he began to build up nuclear medicine ; the third major sector of his theory and practice was gerontology . Among other things, he was a co-founder of the nuclear research facility (KFA, today Forschungszentrum Jülich ) in Jülich . He later discovered his interest in maintaining human performance in old age. He himself demonstrated to his friends and students that although age is a quantitatively and mechanically measurable quantity, it can be drawn far in terms of quality and creativity. He practiced until shortly before his death in 1984, at the age of 80 he worked for the renowned medical journal Chest and maintained his international contacts.

Awards and memberships

The awards that Hugo Wilhelm Knipping received for his services in medical and scientific research include the

He was a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists ( Leopoldina ) and the Brazilian Tuberculosis Institute. During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Münster .

Activity in society

Knipping was privately involved in art history and history. For him it was like an "existential addition and 'hobby' to medicine, just as practically all science and every spiritual discipline was not just extra income for him, but an addition and supplement to the exuberant view from the perspective of the only numerically measurable 'age'".

Nobel laureate Werner Forßmann called Knipping in his laudation a "country doctor in the best sense of the word, who is also a highly qualified scientist". He had succeeded in bringing the Federal Republic of Germany up to world standards in the field of isotope medicine.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 318.
  2. ^ Nikolaus Konietzko, in: 100 years DGP. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York 2010, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 114.
  4. ^ Hugo Wilhelm Knipping, H. Kenter: Healing Art and Artwork (Europe). 2nd Edition. Stuttgart 1966.
personal data
SURNAME Knipping, Hugo Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1984
Place of death Bonn