Josef Kastert

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Josef Kastert around 1970

Josef Kastert (born September 16, 1910 in Düsseldorf ; † January 24, 1993 in Bad Dürkheim ) was a German physician who made outstanding contributions to surgical tuberculosis control and social medicine. With his pioneering work in the field of spinal surgery, he essentially contributed to the eradication of the common disease of bone-TB, in particular the spinal-TB, after the Second World War .

Life

Josef Kastert was born in Düsseldorf as the son of the operations manager Josef Kastert . After graduating from the Lessing secondary school in 1929, he began studying medicine at the University of Bonn , which he completed with a state examination in 1934 and a doctorate in 1935.

In 1935/36 he was assistant under Victor Orator at the Marienhospital in Duisburg , until 1938 he was assistant at the pathological institute in Düsseldorf under Paul Huebschmann. After an assistantship at the surgical clinic in Düsseldorf with Emil Karl Frey , he became senior physician at the Marienthospital in Duisburg with Viktor Orator in 1939.

From November 1, 1939 to May 8, 1945 he was a surgeon in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front, v. a. active in the reserve military hospital in Kielce (Poland).

After the war, from 1945 to 1954 he was chief physician at the sanatorium for extrapulmonary tuberculosis on the Heuberg in Stetten akM (LVA Württemberg) and from 1954 to 1972 he was medical director at the Sonnenwende sanatorium in Bad Dürkheim ( LVA Rhineland-Palatinate ). After the Sonnenwende sanatorium was closed, he set up his own practice in Bad Dürkheim. Kastert had a long-standing, close collaboration and friendship with the later Nobel Prize winner Werner Forßmann , who took over urological tuberculosis treatments at Kastert.

Kastert's pioneering work in the treatment of spondylitis tuberculosa of the spine (vertebral body tuberculosis) was a. in being the first to dare to directly intervene on the vertebral body itself, to clear out the tuberculosis focus and to treat it locally with penicillin . Thanks to his surgical method, which most of his colleagues considered impracticable, he was able to save patients from years of lying in a plaster bed and from disfiguring deformities of the spine ( Tbc hump ). Most patients were able to leave the hospital cured after a comparatively short time. Mortality fell from 80% to less than 1%. Kastert was awarded the Paul Huebschmann Prize in 1964 and the honorary professor of the University of Mainz in 1971 . Kastert's contribution to the expansion of the operational spectrum of orthopedic surgery in the fight against TB also took into account the social aspects of the disease and promoted the separation of orthopedic surgery from surgery as an independent discipline. In addition to his main field of activity, surgical tuberculosis treatment, a. the Hoffa-Kastert syndrome as an independent disease of the knee joint.

Kastert's grave at Gut Rieden

Josef Kastert was married to Franziska Maria Bolten. The marriage resulted in two children, of whom his son Hans-Bernhard Kastert also became a doctor. Josef Kastert died on January 24, 1993 in Bad Dürkheim and is buried in the cemetery of the St. Peter and Paul branch church in the Starnberg district of Rieden .

Awards / honors / memberships

  • 1964 Paul Huebschmann Prize (gold medal and cash prize)
  • 1971 honorary professor at the University of Mainz
  • 1979 Appointment as honorary member of the Society for Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis
  • Member of the Society for Lung Diseases for the Radical Elimination of Tbc
  • Member of the German Society for Orthopedic Surgery
  • Circle of friends of grateful victims

Works

Josef Kastert published numerous articles in various surgical journals and volumes, but in particular he distinguished himself as a lecturer at countless national and international specialist congresses and courses on the surgical treatment of tuberculosis after the Second World War, where he demonstrated his surgical methods to countless surgeons.

literature

  • Richard Schumak: Josef Kastert - a pioneer of surgical TB control and social medicine. A biography. Self-published, Munich 2015.
  • Ottmar Bengert and Rupprecht Bernback (eds.): Orthopedic history in Hamburg. Vol. II, Kassel 2002.
  • Werner Forßmann: Self-experiment. Memories of a surgeon. Düsseldorf 1972.
  • Josef Kastert: A new surgical method for the treatment of spinal tuberculosis. In: Der Chirurg, No. 21, 1950, pp. 691 ff.
  • Josef Kastert: The adhesions of the fat body of the knee joint as an independent clinical picture. In: Der Chirurg, No. 9, 1953, p. 390.
  • Hamilton Bailay and Josef Kastert: The Surgical Medical Examination. Joh.Ambrosius Barth-Verlag Leipzig 1939, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1967, 1974.
  • Gerhard Seifried: Fool's Jump. ProMK-Verlag, 1st edition, 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Junghanns (Ed.): Surgeons directory. 6th edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1980, ISBN 978-3-662-00529-3 , p. 339.
  2. ↑ Richard Schumak: Josef Kastert - a pioneer of surgical TB control and social medicine. A biography. Self-published, Munich 2015, Appendix, Curriculum Vitae.
  3. ↑ Richard Schumak: Josef Kastert - a pioneer of surgical TB control and social medicine. A biography. Self-published, Munich 2015, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Richard Schumak: Josef Kastert - a pioneer of surgical TB control and social medicine. A biography. Self-published, Munich 2015, p. 7/8.
  5. ↑ Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung, No. 212, September 12, 1952, p. 6. Rheinpfalz, No. 214 of September 16, 1972.
  6. ↑ Werner Forßmann: Self-experiment. Memories of a surgeon. Düsseldorf 1972.
  7. ↑ Josef Kastert: A new surgical method for the treatment of spinal tuberculosis. In: Der Chirurg, No. 21, 1950, pp. 691 ff.
  8. ↑ Die Rheinpfalz, No. 214 of September 16, 1985.
  9. ↑ Munich Medical Reports No. 13 v. April 1st, 2000 as well as F. Kunitz: The tuberculosis situation in Germany. In: Pneumologie, 2007, pp. 467-477.
  10. ↑ Ärztliche Wochenschrift, Stuttgart, January 16, 1965, report on the awarding of the Paul Huebschmann Prize to J. Kastert.
  11. ↑ Mittelhardter Rundschau. In: Die Rheinpfalz, vol. 27, no. 140, v. 07/02/1971.
  12. ↑ Ottmar Bengert and Rupprecht Bern Beck (ed.): Orthopedic history in Hamburg. Vol. II, Kassel 2002, pp. 11-33, 88.
  13. ↑ Josef Kastert: The adhesions of the knee joint fat body as an independent clinical picture, In: Der Chirurg, No. 9, 1953, p. 390.
  14. ^ The Lower Saxony Association for Combating Tuberculosis eV: Award certificate, Hanover December 9, 1964.
  15. ^ Board member Daniel Bobon, Univ. Liege. The newspaper Rheinpfalz, No. 214, v. September 16, 1985 puts “the sensational operations of Kastert” at 15,000 in the area of ​​extrapullmonary TB alone.
  16. ↑ Richard Schumak: Josef Kastert - a pioneer of surgical TB control and social medicine. A biography. Self-published, Munich 2015, documentary part, pp. 49–93.
personal data
SURNAME Kastert, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1993
Place of death Bad Dürkheim