Klaus Springfeld

Klaus Springfeld (born May 21, 1936 in Güstrow ) is a German general practitioner and professional medical officer .

Life

Klaus Springfeld was born in Güstrow / Mecklenburg in 1936 and graduated from the John Brinckman High School there in 1955.

From 1955 to 1960 he studied medicine at the University of Rostock , which he completed with a state examination and doctorate (dissertation on the topic of "The red blood count and the serum water content in newborns of healthy mothers and gestoses"). Springfeld worked at the Department of Internal Medicine at the Güstrow Polyclinic until 1963, at the Pathological Institute in Schwerin until 1966, and then at the Schwerin District Hospital and at the Schwerin District Polyclinic until he completed his training as a general practitioner in 1968. Following this, Klaus Springfeld worked for two years as a ship's doctor for deep-sea fishing and the German shipping company .

Returned to Schwerin, worked as a specialist in general medicine, initially as a senior physician in the Schwerin-Lankow city outpatient clinic and, from the opening, as the chief physician of the Lankow Polyclinic, which was completed in 1976 and whose conception was largely influenced by him; from 1972 to 1985 also as deputy medical director of the entire district policlinic. Against this background, he became a permanent employee at the Institute for Healthcare Buildings of the Ministry of Health of the GDR. At the same time he was chairman of the district society for general medicine for 13 years and from 1972 to 1990 member of the board of the society for general medicine of the GDR. In addition, he was a member of the Senate and lecturer in general medicine at the Academy for Medical Training in the GDR , without the then common admission of party membership in the SED. However, he was denied the habilitation he was aiming for.

After the reunification of Germany, Klaus Springfeld was one of the founding members of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Medical Association and was its vice-president from 1990 to 1994. From 1991 to 2001 he worked as a general practitioner in Schwerin .

Awards

• Medical Council (1974)
• Ernst Ludwig Heim Medal of the Society for General Medicine of the GDR (1983)
• Ernst von Bergmann plaque from the German Medical Association (1998)
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (2003)
• Paracelsus Medal of the German Medical Association (2004)

Web links

• Laudation for the award of the Paracelsus Medal . Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2004; 101 (21): A-1490