Karl Kissling

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Karl Kissling (born March 14, 1875 in Donaueschingen ; † September 8, 1953 in Baden-Baden ) was a German internist.

Life

Kißling studied medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . Since 1895 he was a member of the Corps Rhenania Freiburg . In 1899 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He completed his specialist training in Vienna and at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . His Hamburg teachers were Eugen Fraenkel , Hermann Kümmell and Hermann Lenhartz . In 1912 he became chief physician in a medical department. Carl Vering was one of his Hamburg friends . In the First World War as a medical officer pulled served Kißling in medical companies at the war front and in field hospitals . Awarded both Iron Crosses , he was summoned to the officers' hospital in Heidelberg towards the end of the war . When Franz Volhard von Mannheim was appointed to the chair in Halle , Kißling was offered the position of chief medical officer of the first medical department in the Mannheim City Hospital. Although he was actually drawn back to Hamburg, he accepted the Mannheim challenge in 1919. In the war-related shortage of youngsters in his corps , he was reactivated as a corps boy at the same time . As medical director , he completed the construction of the new municipal hospitals that had begun during the war. It was opened in 1923 as one of Germany's largest and most beautiful hospitals. In his kilometer-long basement corridors, Kißling's brothers in the corps held bike and motorcycle races after casino festivals .

The Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg appointed him full honorary professor in 1929 . Retired in 1939, Kißling wanted to move to Wiesbaden , close to a friend who lived in Bad Schwalbach ; After the beginning of the Second World War , however, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and employed as the chief physician of a field hospital department in "his" hospital. After a short leave of absence for health reasons, in 1941 he became a consultant internist for the corps doctor of the military district XII .

After he had lost all property in the air raids on Mannheim , he found refuge in the Bühlertal after the Wehrmacht surrendered . Despite the tightest conditions and economic difficulties, he looked after the local population - equipped only with a stethoscope . When he died of a malignancy , the Mannheim hospital honored him with an overcrowded memorial service on December 2, 1953.

literature

  • Axel Bauer: From the emergency house to the Mannheim University Hospital: Medical care, teaching and research in medical history . 2002, digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 35/599.
  2. ^ Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ a b c d e Karl Kissling . Der Bote vom Oberrhein (Corpszeitung der Rhenania Freiburg), No. 9 (177 of the old series). Freiburg im Breisgau, November 1954, pp. 24-27
  4. ↑ A. Bauer
  5. ↑ In 2001 the Mannheim University Hospital emerged from the Municipal Hospital / Clinic
personal data
SURNAME Kissling, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Donaueschingen
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1953
Place of death Baden-Baden