Ingo Richter
Ingo Martin Richter (born October 15, 1936 in Staßfurt ) was Professor of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology at the University of Rostock . After the political change in 1989 he was a co-founder of the SPD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
Life
Ingo Richter spent his childhood in the small town of Ticino near Rostock. His parents Paul-Gerhard and Margarete Richter were country doctors here. From 1958 to 1964 he studied medicine at the University of Rostock. He received his doctorate immediately after graduation and then worked as a pediatrician.
During the political change in 1989 Ingo Richter was one of the initiators of the occupation of the State Security headquarters on December 4, 1989 and Willy Brandt's visit to Rostock on December 6, 1989. He was one of the founders of the SPD and in 1990 became chairman of the party for Rostock, later elected for what was then the Rostock district.
He was also one of the main initiators of a re-edition of the historic Mecklenburgische Volks-Zeitung , as the “voice of the new democracy for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania”.
Ingo Richter decided against a career as a party politician: on May 7, 1990, he returned to his place of work at the Children's Clinic of the University of Rostock, where he took over the chair for pediatric oncology and hematology from 1992 to 2002 and was director of this department in the same year has been. From 1999 to 2002 he was also head of the Rostock University Children's and Youth Clinic. Ingo Richter retired in 2002 .
Services
In 1992, Richter was the founder of the “Hanse Sunshine Tour” in Rostock, a support association for leukemia, cancer and other chronically ill children. In the eleven years of its existence, a total of almost ten million euros in donations were collected through various activities up to 2006 and the children's cancer department was expanded into a high-performance, modern child-parent hotel station.
Even in retirement, Richter is still active in society. In October 2005 he founded the "Hanseatic Citizens' Foundation Rostock" , which supports individual projects for the citizens of Rostock, such as promoting moral courage among schoolchildren, preventing violence , integrating the disabled, promoting reading and promoting education.
Fonts (selection)
- Contribution to sideroblast research. Dissertation , University of Rostock , 1964
- Christian Plath, Ingo Richter, Hans-Joachim Stolpe: _1hn1_1hn5N-analytical [N-analytical] investigations into special problems of nitrogen metabolism in childhood. Dissertation B , University of Rostock , 1983
- Autumn '89 - the turning point in Rostock: contemporary witnesses remember. Rostock University , Philosophical Faculty, Historical Institute, 1999, ISBN 3-86009-169-7
- To the history of the doctor's letter. German Ges.-wesen 1969; 44: 2106-2108, PMID 4916203
Honors
- 2003: Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
- 2006: Winner of the Albert Schulz Prize of the Albert Schulz Foundation, which was awarded for his diverse social work, which is exemplary in terms of the principles that have determined the life of the former Rostock Lord Mayor and SPD politician Albert Schulz .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ingo Richter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hanseatic Community Foundation Rostock
- Entry on Ingo Richter in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Grahl: Alte Zeitung - New Spirit, experience of a fiasco . In: foto-hartig.de, October 9, 2008 ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Judge, Ingo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richter, Ingo Martin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician, professor of pediatric oncology and hematology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Staßfurt |