Karl Ludwig Radenbach

Karl Ludwig Radenbach (born May 28, 1918 in Siegen ; † February 7, 1986 in Berlin ) was a German physician and pulmonologist . He was a pioneer in tuberculosis research .

Life

Karl Ludwig Radenbach studied medicine in Marburg and Frankfurt am Main . After military service as a doctor and a job in Siegen , he worked at the university clinics in Frankfurt am Main. In 1955 he completed his habilitation there. Radenbach was initially a professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt , from 1964 chief physician and medical director of the Heckeshorn Lung Clinic in West Berlin and an adjunct professor at the Medical Faculty of the Free University of Berlin .

He was one of the initiators of the department system of the Heckeshorn Lung Clinic (now: Helios Clinic Emil von Behring, Heckeshorn Lung Clinic), an unusual structure of equal departments within a clinic at the time. Together with Hans-Jürgen Brandt, Karl Bartmann, Günter Freise, Jutta Mai, Hans-Siegfried Otto and others, he developed Heckeshorn into a center for pulmonology and thoracic surgery known beyond the borders of Berlin and Germany .

In addition to his clinical work and teaching, he was extensively scientifically active. The main topic was tuberculosis, especially its treatment. He was z. B. Initiator of major multicenter studies on the treatment of tuberculosis. He also conducted research in areas that were not very familiar at the time, such as the treatment of non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis and lung involvement in immune diseases (lupus erythematosus) and histiocytosis X. The result was a large number of scientific publications, especially in German-language specialist journals. In his clinical investigations, he resorted to the most modern, not yet generally established methods such as controlled randomized and possibly double-blind studies. In doing so, he cooperated extensively with other clinics; he was a co-founder of the Scientific Working Group for the Therapy of Lung Diseases , which u. a. distinguished by a state-of-the-art research methodology (an unusual principle of this working group was also that it refused financial support from the pharmaceutical industry). Radenbach was an advocate of rational and scientifically founded medicine. In spite of all its scientific orientation, his work was “clinical” and focused on the benefits in patient care.

Radenbach was a member of various specialist societies, u. a. Also chairman of the German Society for Pneumology and Tuberculosis and organizer of one of their congresses in Berlin in 1980 (something happened to him here that may be the greatest of all horrors for a congress organizer: the collapse of the event building - the Berlin Congress Hall - a few weeks before the start the congress was a great success elsewhere). As far as it was possible at the time, Radenbach cultivated contacts with specialist colleagues in the GDR and abroad. He was a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and an Honorary Fellow of the International Union Against Tuberculosis. He received the Ernst von Bergmann plaque from the German Medical Association .

In the lecture hall of the Heckeshorn Clinic (until February 2007 Am Großen Wannsee 80, Berlin-Wannsee ) a memorial plaque was placed in his honor.

Fonts

• The relationship between tuberculous pulmonary bleeding and hypoprothrombinemia , 1944 (dissertation)
• The treatment of tuberculosis of the upper respiratory tract, in particular larynx tuberculosis, with isonicotinic acid hydrazide , Lung Journal 145, 1953, together with R. Link and W. Niedermowe
• Targeted endobronchial treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis , 1955 (habilitation thesis)
• Criteria for the diagnosis of exudative pleuritis from autoimmune diseases , 1971, Lung Journal 145, 1971, together with HJ Brandt, H. Preussler and Heide Rudolph
• Investigations on the clinic and therapy of pulmonary histiocytosis X based on 37 cases 1969–1982 , Thieme / Prax Klin Pneumol 1983; 37: 535-545, together with Buchbender W, Loddenkemper R. et al.
• Tuberculosis from KL Radenbach and W. Matthiesen, in: Textbook of internal medicine , Stuttgart, New York: Georg-Thieme-Verlag 1984, 11.104–118

literature

• Jürgen Meier-Sydow: Karl Ludwig Radenbach and the development of modern pneumology in Frankfurt am Main , In: Frankfurt contributions to the history, theory and ethics of medicine; 15 (1994). Pp. 126-133; 292-299