Klaus-Ditmar Bachmann

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Klaus-Ditmar Bachmann (born January 8, 1922 in St. Goarshausen , † April 28, 2005 in Münster ) was a German pediatrician and university teacher.

Life

Because of the occupation of the Rhineland , the family moved from St. Goarshausen to Kassel in 1923. After attending school in Kassel (most recently the humanistic Wilhelms-Gymnasium ), high school graduation in 1940 and six months' Reich labor service, he studied medicine at the Philipps University in Marburg . From April 1941 (wounded in September 1941) until the end of the war on May 10, 1945, Klaus-Ditmar Bachmann was a soldier, then - until July 1945 - in American captivity in Eger / Sudetenland. Then he was able to continue studying medicine and finish it in 1948. After working as a medical assistant and further academic training - two years at the Anatomical Institute of the Philipps University in Marburg / Lahn, then at the Pathological Institute there until 1952 and doctorate to Dr. med. (Dissertation on the topic of kidney function in thirst and diuresis ) - Klaus-Ditmar Bachmann worked from 1953 at the University Clinic in Cologne with Carl-Gottlieb Bennholdt-Thomsen , where he wrote his habilitation thesis in 1957 on the topic of liver and potassium metabolism in histotoxic Malonate hypoxydosis presented. In 1958 he became senior physician there and in 1963 an extraordinary professor of paediatrics.

In 1969 he was offered a chair as a full professor and appointed director of the University Children's Clinic at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster . In 1987 he retired.

Bachmann's main areas of work were neuroblastoma and Wilm's tumor, water and electrolyte balance in infancy and childhood, and the development of the first special infusion solutions for pediatricians. Bachmann introduced the first regular early diagnosis and preventive examinations for children. In 1967 he co-founded the Society for Pediatric Oncology.

From 1986 to 1999 he was Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Medical Association .

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SURNAME Bachmann, Klaus-Ditmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Goarshausen
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2005
Place of death Muenster