Konrad Seige

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Konrad Seige

Konrad Seige (born October 27, 1921 in Jena ; † November 15, 2017 in Lieskau (Salzatal) ) was a German internist and university professor.

Life

Seige studied medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In 1938 he became a member of the SC comradeship "Saaleck", which the Corps Saxonia Jena had founded after the forced suspension in 1936. In 1946 he went to Max Bürger at the University of Leipzig . Since his Jena doctor father of the Soviet zone of occupation in the American occupation zone had fled and at the Friedrich-Alexander University had received a professorship Seige 1947 in Erlangen, Dr. med. PhD . His doctoral thesis dealt with Joseph Victor von Scheffel's brain disease . In 1955 he completed his habilitation in Leipzig. In 1959 he was appointed associate professor in Leipzig under Bürger's successor Rolf Emmrich .

On April 1, 1964, he accepted the call from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg to the chair of internal medicine . As director of the 2nd Medical Clinic and Polyclinic, he was the founding chairman of the Society for Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases of the GDR and President of the German Society for Clinical Medicine in the GDR . He was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Diabetes Association . He was President of the International Society of Internal Medicine (1982–1988) and the World Congress of Internal Medicine in Kyoto (1985). She thanked him with an honorary doctorate that he had close relationships with the University of Poznan for decades . His clinic had a “legendary” reputation, especially in the fields of diabetes mellitus and angiology . Seige fought for the preservation of the "great" internal medicine and kept the faculty largely free from political influences. Nevertheless, he was in 1987 - even before the turn of the peaceful revolution in East Germany with high honors - emeritus .

In June 1948 he (like his brother and colleague Dietrich Seige) became a corps bow bearer of Franconia Jena, who had moved to Frankfurt am Main . The Corps Saxonia Bonn awarded him the ribbon in 1985 . After German reunification , Seige supported the state of Saxony-Anhalt in several commissions. In July 2006, Prime Minister Wolfgang Böhmer awarded him the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class . In old age Seige published the story of the "Saaleck". He died at the age of 96 in Lieskau.

Honorary memberships

  • Society for Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases of the GDR
  • Society of Gastroenterology of the ČSSR
  • German Society for Internal Medicine
  • Polish Society of Gastroenterology
  • German Diabetes Society
  • Saxon Society for Internal Medicine

Honors

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 146/822; 141/622; 37/765:
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Scheffel's disease .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Chemical aging changes of the human spinal cord
  4. ↑ University newspaper Leipzig (PDF; 4.8 MB)
  5. ↑ a b University newspaper Halle (2003) (PDF; 555 kB)
  6. ^ K. Seige: Comradeship Saaleck on the Sachsenhaus in Jena . Hall 2005
  7. ↑ University Hospital Halle (Saale): [tt_news = 5887 & cHash = 96f06185937e7c85000d27f993f859e7 Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Konrad Seige died shortly after his 96th birthday] . 17th November 2017
  8. ↑ death notices in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (accessed on 25 November 2017) at www.abschied-nehmen.de.
  9. ↑ DDG
  10. ↑ Konrad Seige's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Seige, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena (Bad Liebenstein)
DATE OF DEATH 15th November 2017
Place of death Lieskau (Salzatal)