Karl Mündnich

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Karl Rudolf Mündnich (born January 28, 1908 in Dunkelthal , Trautenau district (Kingdom of Bohemia) , † April 19, 1993 in Münster ) was a German ENT doctor and university professor .

Life

Mündnich graduated from high school in Trautenau in 1927 and then completed a medical degree at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague , which he completed in 1933 with the state examination. In Prague he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . After completing his habilitation in 1939 with Karl Amersbach , the head of the Otorhinological Clinic and the Laryngolic Institute of the German University in Prague , he worked there as a private lecturer . In the summer of 1939 he followed Amersbach to the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf , where he worked under his teacher as a senior physician at the ENT clinic there until March 1940.

During the Second World War he was deployed as a troop doctor with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler , where he rose to SS-Sturmbannführer . From May 16 to May 18, 1944 he attended the Hohenlychen sanatorium . In 1944 he had been assigned to the ENT University Clinic of the University of Königsberg . His publication on gunshot injuries to the ear and the lateral base of the skull appeared that year .

After the end of the war, Mündnich initially practiced as a resident doctor in Steyr . After Alexander Herrmann moved from the University of Mainz to the University of Munich , he took over the management of the Mainz University Clinic in 1952/53. Then he worked in Munich under Hermann as a senior physician. There he was appointed adjunct professor in 1956. From 1960 he was chief physician at the municipal hospital in Ludwigshafen . In 1962 he followed Helmut Loebell to the chair for ENT medicine at the University of Münster and as director of the ENT clinic, where he worked until his retirement in 1978. In addition, he was President of the Association of West German ENT Doctors in 1965/66 and in the same function at the German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery in 1970/71 .

Mündnich's merits lie in the expansion of the ENT clinic in Münster. His main research focus was surgical therapy in the field of ENT medicine, particularly in the field of rehabilitation and tumor surgery. He was the author of specialist publications.

He was reported by a former employee in 1990 for allegedly carrying out medical experiments on prisoners of war. The Dortmund public prosecutor's office finally investigated Mündnich through the central office of the state justice administrations for the investigation of National Socialist crimes . The preliminary investigation was discontinued after his death, also because there were no indications of any crimes committed.

Fonts

  • The gunshot wounds to the ear and the lateral base of the skull: With 30 illustrations. G. Thieme, Leipzig 1944.
  • The X-ray layer image of the ear = The Tomogram of the ear. together with Kurt-Walter Frey, Thieme, Stuttgart 1959 (belongs to: Archive and atlas of normal and pathological anatomy in typical X-ray images; 83)
  • Plastic operations on the nose and auricle / A. Sercer, Thieme, Stuttgart 1962 (attached work: legal issues in plastic facial operations / R. Schmelcher)
  • The importance of the Prague University and the countries of Bohemia and Moravia for the development of ear, nose and throat medicine: with special appreciation of the personality of Emanuel Zaufal. Verl.-Haus Sudetenland, Munich 1991, (belongs to: Sudetendeutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste. Scientific class: essay; 1991)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Konrad Thomas: The history of the ear, nose and throat clinic of the University of Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf work on the history of medicine No. 60, Triltsch, Düsseldorf 1986, p. 43.
  2. ↑ Walter Marle (Ed.): Lexicon of the entire therapy with diagnostic information. 2 volumes, 4th revised edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1935 ( list of employees ).
  3. ↑ a b c Academic teaching centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Germany in the 20th century. German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery (Ed.), Heidelberg / Berlin 1996, p. 256.
  4. ^ A b c Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 159.
  5. ↑ Academic teaching centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Germany in the 20th century. German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery (Ed.), Heidelberg / Berlin 1996, p. 257.
personal data
SURNAME Mündnich, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mündnich, Karl Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ENT doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Dunkelthal , Trautenau district
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1993
Place of death Muenster