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Karl zum Winkel (born May 15, 1920 in Weida , Thuringia ; † March 4, 2018 ) was a German radiologist .

family

His parents, the doctors Carl Gustav zum Winkel († 1945) and Marta (23 August 1890 Dillenburg / Lahn - 1977 Hanover) born. Geber, married in 1917.

His mother's parents were the government architect Wilhelm Geber and the singer Paula, b. Pickert.
Marta had attended the high school for girls in Duisburg and Essen, and from the upper secondary school the humanistic girls' high school in Cologne, where she passed the Abitur in 1909 as an external student at the Kaiser Wilhelm high school. She studied medicine in Bonn and Freiburg and, after the preliminary medical examination (1912), completed clinical semesters in Berlin, Bonn, Jena and Freiburg. After passing the emergency exam in August 1914, she worked for two years as an assistant doctor in the surgical ward of the municipal hospitals in Elberfeld and the associated club hospital. From October 1, 1916, she was an assistant doctor at the Royal University Women's Clinic in Kiel, where she received her doctorate in 1917 with a thesis on the vaporization of the uterus .
After marrying Carl Gustav zum Winkel, the couple ran a group practice in Weida from 1931 to 1938. She then gave up practicing the profession for seven years.
Carl Gustav was a medical officer of the Reichsversicherungsanstalt, a Reichsbahn doctor in the NSDAP, SA and the NS-Ärztebund, for whom Marta was also a candidate. She was approved by the Public Health Office. After Carl Gustav's death in 1945, she initially took over the practice and, after handing it over to her son, helped out from 1947–1957. In 1960 Marta moved to the Winkel to live with her daughter in Hanover.

Karl zum Winkel married the doctor Gonda on December 21, 1946 (July 3, 1917 - March 12, 2004), daughter of the Kanitz cantor Otto Podszuweit (1887–1966). Her son Karl-Detlef, born in August 1949, became a graduate physicist and has been a freelance journalist since the Chernobyl reactor accident. In July 1951, Albrecht Zum Winkel, a well-known occupational physician, followed.

Career

Karl zum Winkel studied medicine from 1939–1945 in Jena, Munich (1940), Berlin (1942–43), Königsberg (1943–44), Breslau (1944–45) and Göttingen, where he worked in 1945 with the work "Splenomegaly and Spleen Function" to the Dr. med. received his doctorate.

Around 1947/48 he took over his parents' practice in Weida and completed specialist training in radiology in Gera , where he was an assistant from 1951.

After the family left the GDR in 1957, he continued his work as a radiologist at the Königstuhl Sanatorium in Heidelberg. In 1959 he joined the University Radiation Clinic in Heidelberg as a research assistant, where he dealt intensively with nuclear medicine examinations of kidney function. His habilitation thesis from 1962 was generally regarded as the basis of modern kidney function diagnostics.

From 1969 to 1975 he was full professor of clinical radiology at the Free University of Berlin, and then in the same position again until his retirement in 1988 in Heidelberg.

In addition to seven books, he published 405 specialist articles on the topics of therapy and diagnostics with radionuclides, radiation therapy and X-ray diagnostics. By 1970 he gave 90 lectures in Europe and overseas. On March 8, 1970, he was awarded the first Otto Hahn Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main in the Kaisersaal of the Frankfurter Römers . In 1989/90 he was awarded the science prize (25,000 DM) for the “use of large-scale equipment procedures for therapy-relevant diagnostics and therapy control in tumors” .

In the 1970s, he and Gonda continued correspondence with Carla Kluge (1894–1980), Kurt Kluge's widow and Thomas Bernhard 's maternal friend . Since the mid-1990s he has been dealing with the beginnings of silversmithing and ancient cultures from Mexico to Easter Island.

Research areas

  • Conventional X-ray diagnostics and computed tomography
  • Radiotherapy in the ENT area
  • synchronized chemoradiotherapy
  • Whole body irradiation
  • Morphological-dynamic investigations and therapy in nuclear medicine

Memberships

  • German Radiological Society
  • German Society for Nuclear Medicine
  • German Cancer Society
  • Chairman of the University Committee of the German Radiological Society

literature

  • World Who's Who in Science: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present , Volume 2; P. 1850
  • Johanna Bleker, Sabine Schleiermacher: Doctors from the Empire: A generation's lives ; 2000; P. 305
  • https://geschichte.charite.de/aeik/biografie.php?ID=AEIK00779 . Accessed: 2017-04-30. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6q6lO46OF )
  • The nuclear industry ; Volume 6 (1961); P. 34
  • Friedrich HW Heuck, Eckard Macherauch (eds.): Research with X-rays: Balance of a Century (1895–1995) ; P. 681 ( online )
  • Ruperto Carola ; Issues 74-78 (1986); Association of Friends of the Student Union of Heidelberg University; P. 292

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Winkel: Obituary notice. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 10, 2018, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.1/PPNSET?PPN=240243595
  3. ↑ Ulrike Lindner, Merith Niehus: doctors - patients ; P. 107
  4. ↑ https://billiongraves.com/grave/Gonda-Podszuweit-zum-Winkel/12477899#/
  5. ↑ “To the angle, Detlef: Dipl.phys. Born 1949. 1967-1975 Study of physics, diploma thesis at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY); Teacher at Hamburg schools; freelance writer; Work in citizens' initiatives against nuclear power plants and against runway 18 West at Frankfurt Airport. Antifa. Computer scientist since 1991. Publications in the monthly magazine "Betonet", Hamburg. " Https://archive.today/20170430141139/https://www.gruene-linke.de/2014/03/21/notizen-aus-der-dafuer-partei/
  6. ↑ http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.1/PPNSET?PPN=04638913X
  7. ↑ http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.1/PPNSET?PPN=179859951
  8. ^ Awarded the Otto Hahn Prize by the City of Frankfurt to the radiation doctor Karl zum Winkel, March 8, 1970. Contemporary history in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  9. ↑ http://www.deutsche-hypo.de/all/download/chronik_preistraeger_jgz.pdf
  10. ^ Kalliope-Verbund: Online view of the finding aid Nachl. Kurt Kluge
personal data
SURNAME to the angle, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radiologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Weida , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 2018