Karl Linser

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Karl Gottlieb Linser (born  September 10, 1895 in Pforzheim ; †  April 27, 1976 in Berlin , GDR ) was a German dermatologist . From August 1947 to November 1948 he served as President of the German Central Administration for Health Care in the Soviet Occupation Zone and from 1950 to 1962 as Professor of Dermatovenerology at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Director of the Charité Dermatology Clinic . In the 1920s he developed the first industrially manufactured drug for sclerosing obliteration of varicose veins .

Life

Karl Linser was born in Pforzheim in 1895 as the son of a teacher and graduated from high school in Karlsruhe . After doing military service from 1914 to 1918 during the First World War , he studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg and Heidelberg from 1918 to 1922 . After receiving his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1922, he worked from 1922 to 1924 as an assistant doctor at the Dermatology Clinic of the University of Tübingen , in 1924 in Breslau and in 1925 at the Dermatology Clinic of the University of Vienna and in 1925/1926 at the St. Louis Hospital in Paris . From 1926 to 1933 he worked as a resident dermatologist as the partner of Eugen Galewsky in Dresden . In 1933 he took over the management of the department for skin diseases at the Waldparkkrankenhaus and the children's outpatient clinic of the hospital in Dresden-Johannstadt .

After the end of the Second World War , he acted in 1945/1946 as chief physician of the skin clinic of the hospital in Dresden-Friedrichstadt . In April 1947 he was appointed full professor of dermatovenerology at the University of Leipzig . In August of the same year, he was appointed President of the German Central Administration for Health Care in the Soviet Zone of Occupation . In this office, which he held until November 1948, he succeeded Paul Konitzer , who was arrested by the NKVD in April 1947 on charges relating to the treatment of Soviet prisoners of war in the Zeithain prisoner-of-war camp . After becoming head of the main health service department in the Ministry of Labor and Health of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) two years later , he worked from 1950 until his retirement in 1962 as professor of dermatovenerology at the Humboldt University in Berlin and director of Dermatology Clinic of the Charité . In 1951 he was also the medical director of the Berlin-Buch Clinic and chief physician of its dermatology clinic.

tomb

Karl Linser was married from 1928 and died in Berlin in 1976 . He was buried in the cemetery in Berlin-Wilhelmshagen.

Act

Karl Linser's medical and scientific work focused on phlebology , climatic therapy and the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases , skin cancers and skin tuberculosis . During his time in Tübingen, he developed a high-percentage sodium chloride solution with the addition of procaine, also known as Linser's solution or varicophtin , the first industrially manufactured drug for sclerosing obliteration of varicose veins.In 1935 he reported on the treatment of gonorrhea with sulfonamide . He also set up a climate station for eczema patients on the island of Rügen in 1958 and in 1965 organized a climate - therapeutic boat trip with eczema and asthma sufferers with the friendship of the peoples to the Canary Islands .

Awards

Karl Linser was named Honored Physician of the People in 1951 and received the Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin in 1959 . In 1970 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit (VVO) in gold, for which he also received the bar of honor in 1975.

Works (selection)

  • The sexually transmitted diseases: their dangers for families and people, their treatment and control. Dresden 1941, 1946
  • The essence of venereal diseases. Berlin 1953, 1956, 1957, 1959
  • The ocean climate cure: Basics, problems as well as clinical and psychological results in endogenous eczema and bronchial asthma. Leipzig 1969

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also Carl Bruck : About the successes with the one-time combined Salvarsan sublimate treatment of syphilis according to Linser. In: Münchner medical Wochenschrift. Volume 67, 1920, pp. 423-424.
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , December 2, 1970, p. 2
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, December 4, 1975, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Linser, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linser, Karl Gottlieb (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1976
Place of death Berlin , German Democratic Republic