Joachim Reichmann

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Joachim Reichmann

Wolfgang Joachim Reichmann (born April 22, 1923 in Gößnitz (Thuringia) , † August 30, 1991 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German surgeon and university professor. As a professor he worked at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Reichmann attended elementary and high school in Gößnitz and the Realgymnasium in Altenburg . In 1942 he passed the Abitur. In the same year he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served in units of the army and air force . Wounded in 1943, he was sent to military hospitals in Zweibrücken and Neumünster , where he met resistance fighters against National Socialism . With the intention of going over to the Red Army and joining the National Committee for Free Germany , he reported to the Eastern Front . The plan succeeded in 1944; he stopped at an advance by Red Army soldiers and allowed himself to be captured. After a short stay in a prison camp, he was instructed in his new duties in the front school of the 1st Ukrainian Front . Across the front line, he urged the German soldiers of the Wehrmacht to follow his example. With Horst Viedt's group, he campaigned for a surrender in the hinterland of the German war front . In the spring of 1945 Reichmann belonged to the action group that campaigned for a surrender in the encircled Breslau. After the Battle of Breslau he was able to "celebrate the victory over fascism with a group of anti-fascist resistance fighters on the side of the Soviet troops".

Student in Jena, surgeon in Altenburg

After the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , Reichmann worked for a few months as an editor for the Sächsische Zeitung . As the first educational institution in the Soviet zone of occupation that took University of Jena in October 1945 the operation again. Reichmann studied medicine there “under difficult ideal and material conditions”. He passed the state examination in 1950 and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. He worked as a compulsory assistant in Altenburg from 1951 to 1953 . In the local district hospital with 290 surgical beds, he completed his four-year training as a surgeon. He became a surgeon in 1957 and married Anneliese Schuhknecht in the same year . The marriage had four children. He remained loyal to his boss Gerhard Engel as 2nd and 1st senior physician. He has headed the in-house blood bank since 1954 and the in-house histological laboratory since 1958 .

Senior physician in Leipzig

In 1961 he moved to the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . There he achieved his PhD B in 1964 . He was appointed lecturer in 1965. Until 1967 he was a senior physician with Herbert Uebermuth , who in June 1967 gave him “a decent character free of pathological ambition, modest demeanor, high level of commitment, great technical talent in the field of abdominal surgery, traumatology and urology, absolute reliability and unshakable calm in critical situations Situations "certified. 1967/68 still with Werner Kothe , Reichmann was also a contract doctor in the military hospital of the National People's Army in Wiederitzsch .

Chief physician in Altenburg

On December 1, 1968, he returned to Altenburg as medical director and chief physician . The surgery still comprised 212 beds. At the insistence of former comrades-in-arms, Reichmann was recognized as a fighter against fascism in 1969; He did not derive any advantages for himself from this. In 1974 the clinic was at the top of the facilities in the former GDR in the field of organ donation with 11 removals, 5 transplants and 3 foreign transplants. Karl Marx University appointed him honorary lecturer in 1971 and honorary professor in 1975 .

Full professor in Halle / Saale

In 1977 he was offered the surgical chairs at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald and the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg . Since the family was based in central Germany and the son Jochen sang in the St. Thomas Choir , he decided on Halle. On September 1, 1977 he took over the ordinariate of surgery and the directorate of the surgical clinic. In the same year he was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board for Medicine at the Ministry for Higher and Technical Schools in the GDR . Since he was not a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany , he was still not allowed to take part in the Monday party meetings in the “red hall”. The next day, loyal colleagues informed him about the internal clinic discussed there. 18 unofficial employees of the Ministry for State Security observed Reichmann and his family.

During Reichmann's tenure, the surgical clinic was partially relocated to the clinic in Kröllwitz , which was planned as a district hospital and then taken over by the university . The division of the clinic into two locations - Leninallee (Magdeburger Strasse) and Ernst-Grube-Strasse - meant a considerable additional burden for Reichmann. He continued the annual events of the Medical-Scientific Society for Surgery at the MLU. For the 35th – 38th At the conference he won the Austrians Harald Tscherne , Alfred Priesching (Lainz), Erich Wayand and Alfred Zängl (Salzburg) as speakers. In 1983 he resigned from the directorate for health reasons. From 1983 to 1987 he still worked at the Melanoma Center of the University Dermatology Clinic Halle-Wittenberg, where, among other things, he devoted himself to regional cytostatic perfusion in malignant melanoma . After two myocardial infarctions , he died at the age of 68.

Works

During his 37 years of professional activity, Reichmann gave 210 lectures at scientific congresses. The focus of his 130 publications were visceral surgery and visceral oncological topics. In addition, Reichmann was involved in the field of laboratory diagnostics. He improved the teaching programs for undergraduate students and the education of middle medical professions. His textbook The Surgery - An Introduction to Medium-Sized Healthcare Professionals was standard for many years.

Honors

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Klaus-Peter Wenzel: 200 years of university surgery in Halle an der Saale (1811–2011) . Projects Verlag Cornelius, Halle 2011, ISBN 978-3-86237-278-2 , p. 115.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Successful treatment of hemangiomas with Chaoul's close-range radiation .
  3. ↑ Topic: Recognition, cause and frequency of postoperative liver damage in humans and in animal experiments .
  4. ^ A b Henning Dralle : Die Surgeursvereinigung Sachsen-Anhalt 1990–2000 , p. 109.
  5. ^ Letter of thanks from Karl Marx University to Reichmann dated November 20, 1974.
  6. ^ Klaus-Peter Wenzel: 200 years of university surgery in Halle an der Saale (1811–2011) . Projects Verlag Cornelius, Halle 2011, ISBN 978-3-86237-278-2 , p. 116.
  7. ^ Documents in the Halle branch of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi files
  8. ↑ a b Henning Dralle : The Surgeons Association of Saxony-Anhalt 1990–2000 , p. 19.
  9. ↑ Dr. Jochen Reichmann, son of Joachim Reichmann, surgeon in Herford.
  10. ↑ Award certificate signed by Dieter Bergner (Rector) and Leo Zett (Dean).
  11. ↑ Award certificate signed by Erich Honecker
  12. ↑ Award document signed by Richard Reding
personal data
SURNAME Reichmann, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichmann, Wolfgang Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Gößnitz (Thuringia)
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1991
Place of death Halle (Saale)