Karsten Vilmar
Karsten Vilmar (born April 24, 1930 in Bremen ) is a German surgeon and professional politician.
Life
After attending the old grammar school and graduating from high school in Bremen in 1950 , Karsten Vilmar studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After the state examination and doctorate in 1955, he worked in several clinics in Bremen. From 1964 to 1996 he was Ltd. Senior physician at the trauma surgery clinic at the central hospital in Sankt-Jürgen-Strasse . Since 1968 he was initially a member of the delegates' assembly of the Bremen Medical Association , active in professional politics. From 1976 to 1996 he was President of the Medical Association Bremen and 1975-1978 Vice President and then to 1999 president of the German Medical Association and the German Medical . In addition, Vilmar was a member of and leading role in a number of other organizations. In 1998 the term “ socially acceptable premature death ”, coined by Karsten Vilmar, was chosen as the bad word of the year. The doctor's original intention was to criticize the federal government's austerity plans, but in the opinion of the jurors, irony and satire had turned into sheer cynicism. Vilmar is married and has two adult sons.
Honors
- 1979 Honorary Chairman of the Marburger Bund - Federation
- 1979 Honorary reflex hammer of the Marburg Federal Association
- 1980 Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 1989 Badge of Honor of the German Employees' Union (DAG)
- 1992 honorary member of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons
- 1995 honorary member of the Federal Association of German Writers and Doctors
- 1996 honorary member of MOTESZ - Association of Hungarian Medical Scientific Societies
- 1996 Honorary Chairman of the Marburg Federal State Association of Bremen
- 1997 Honorary doctorate from the Medical and Pharmaceutical University of Victor Babes
- 1997 Gold Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr
- 1998 honorary member of the German Society for Trauma Surgery
- 1998 Gold Medal of the President of the Republic of Hungary
- 1999 Honorary President of the German Medical Association and the German Medical Association
- 2000 Paracelsus Medal
- 2002 Wolfgang Müller Osten Medal from the Professional Association of German Surgeons
- 2004 Honorary doctorate from Pyongyang University ( North Korea )
Web links
- Literature by and about Karsten Vilmar in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karsten Vilmar's biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ unwortdesjahres.net: Socially acceptable early death
- ^ Magyar Orvostudományi Társaságok Szövetsége
- ↑ Federal Medical Association: Honorary President of the Federal Medical Association Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Karsten Vilmar ( Memento from September 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Hans Joachim Sewering | President of the German Medical Association 1978–1999 |
Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vilmar, Karsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon, medical representative |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |