Klaus Wanke

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Klaus Wanke (born November 18, 1933 in Kiel , † July 14, 2011 in Homburg ) was a German doctor .

Career

Klaus Wanke was born on November 18, 1933 in Kiel. After graduating from high school in 1954, he studied medicine in Heidelberg and Hamburg and initially worked as a specialist in neurology and psychiatry . From 1961 to 1967 he worked as a research assistant at the psychiatric and nervous clinic of the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf .

From 1967 he worked as a senior physician at the Psychiatric and Neurological Clinic at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . After his habilitation , he headed the Department of Clinical Psychiatry II there. There he founded the first drug counseling center in the Federal Republic of Germany as early as 1968 , where for many years he looked after self-help groups in the field of addiction, including the German Good Templar Order and the Federal Association of Drug Addicts Parents.

Since 1972 he has been a professor at the University of Frankfurt a. M. and head of the department for clinical psychiatry II of the center of psychiatry in the clinic of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.

In 1978 he turned down the offer for the professorship for psychiatry at Ulm University . In the same year he followed a call to the chair of psychiatry at Saarland University and was appointed director of the university neurological clinic - psychiatry - in Homburg / Saar.

In the 1970s, Wanke was a member of the German Bundestag's psychiatry enquête on the state of psychiatry in Germany. He was also the spokesman for the Scientific Board of Trustees of the German Headquarters for Defense against Addiction Risks and a member of the National Drug Council of the Federal Government.

Research and science

Klaus Wanke published around 150 scientific papers and monographs, including on the topics of neuropsychiatry, drug, alcohol and drug addiction, psychiatric methodology, forensic psychiatry, sexual research, geriatric psychiatry, prevention in psychiatry, pain, psychosomatics, suicide, psychiatric emergency medicine and training in the psychiatry

In 1971 he became a member and in 1991 spokesman of the Scientific Board of Trustees of the German Central Office for Addiction Issues.

From 1986 to 1990 he was President of the German Society for Addiction Research and Addiction Therapy.

voluntary work

In the 1970s Wanke worked on the psychiatry enquete of the German Bundestag on the situation in the Federal Republic of Germany (working group for addicts, scientific project S1). For many years Wanke chaired the Federal Republic's first expert commission on drug hazards. In addition, he was an expert at hearings of committees of the German Bundestag and the state parliaments of the Saarland, the State of Hesse and the State of Baden-Württemberg.

From 1982 to 2000 he worked as an expert (according to § 1 Narcotics Act) at the Federal Health Office and the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices in Berlin.

From 1990 he worked on the National Drug Control Plan of the Federal Republic of Germany, and in November 1992 he was appointed to the National Drug Council. From 1999 he was a member of the successor body, the Drugs and Addiction Commission . In 1994, on the proposal of the Federal Ministry of Health, Wanke was appointed by the European Commission as a German member of the Scientific Committee of the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction in Lisbon.

Since 1995 he has been a member of the German delegation to the WHO inter-ministerial European conference in Paris.

Honors

  • 1995: Awarded the Ernst von Bergmann plaque for services to advanced medical training
  • 2000: Award of the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2003: Appointment as honorary member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the German Journal of Addiction Research and Practice
  • 2004: Elected honorary member of the German Society for Addiction Research and Addiction Therapy
  • 2004: Elected honorary member of the Saarland Sisters' Association
  • 2010: Appointment to the medical council by the Minister of Health of Saarland, Mr. Georg Weisweiler

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  2. ^ Palatine Merkur: Medical Councilor Professor Klaus Wanke is dead
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. med. Klaus Wanke turns 65 , press release from Saarland University on November 17, 1998
  4. ↑ Drugs and Addiction Commission of the Federal Ministry of Health, Suchtmed 2 (1) 57 (2000)
personal data
SURNAME Wanke, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 2011
Place of death Homburg