Kurt Winter (medic)

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Kurt Winter (born May 11, 1910 in Glehn ; † November 8, 1987 in Berlin ) was a German social medicine specialist, university professor, publicist and health politician.

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Josef Kurt Winter was born in 1910 in the Rhenish Korschenbroich district of Glehn. He studied medicine in Munich, at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and completed his studies with exams and doctorates in Bern. Until 1937 Kurt Winter spent his time as an assistant doctor in the Basel sanatorium in Davos Dorf , at the Bern University Children's Clinic and in the sanatorium and nursing home in the Rheinau Abbey (Canton of Zurich).

In 1937, Winter worked as a doctor in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. He then came to Oslo via a stay in Paris, where he worked as a refugee doctor. After the occupation of Norway by the German Wehrmacht , he fled to Sweden in 1940 and lived there in exile until 1946. Here he worked 1943–1944 as an assistant in the cell physiology department of Stockholm University, in 1944 as a doctor in psychiatry in Furunäset / Pitea hospital and for the last two years as a research assistant at the social doctor in Stockholm.

In 1946 Winter returned to Germany and initially became a medical officer in Teltow . From 1947 to 1948 he was head of the Brandenburg State Health Office, from 1948 to 1949 Vice President of the German Central Administration for Health Care (DZVG) and deputy head of the Health Care Department of the German Economic Commission.

From 1950 to 1975 Kurt Winter worked at the Institute for Social Hygiene at the Humboldt University in Berlin - from 1956 as professor and director.

From 1967 to 1979 he held the position of Rector of the Academy for Medical Training in the GDR , where he was head of the chair of social hygiene (full-time from 1975).

From 1949 to 1981 Winter was editor-in-chief of the magazine for medical training .

Kurt Winter worked for decades in health policy functions in which he was able to influence the design of the health system in the GDR: 1950–1951 head of department in the Ministry of Planning and in the State Planning Commission for Culture and Health Care; 1956–1959 Head of the Medicine Department in the State Secretariat for Universities and Technical Schools; 1958–1962 member of the doctors' commission of the Politburo of the SED (permanent commission at the Politburo for medical science and questions of health care); 1962–1969 Vice-President of the Council for Planning and Coordination of Medical Sciences at the Ministry of Health . He is said to have played a key role in the development of the conception of the polyclinics in the GDR.

He was buried in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in East Berlin.

Publications (selection)

  • Kurt Winter: On the questions of hygiene in building socialism. Knowledge Ztschr. Humboldt University 1952: 2.53, math-nat. Row 3/4;
  • Kurt Winter: Subject and task of social hygiene . In: K. Winter (Ed.) Beyer / Winter Textbook of Social Hygiene (5th ed.). Berlin VEB Verlag Volk Gesundheit; 1970: pp. 223-30
  • Kurt Winter: The health system in the German Democratic Republic: Balance after 30 years. Berlin: 2nd, revised. Aufl.Berlin: Verlag Volk u. Health, 1980

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Killy (Ed.) Et al: Dictionary of German Biography, Vol. 10 (Thibaut-Zycha). Keyword: Winter, Kurt . Munich: Saur 2006, p. 558
  2. ^ Maria-Katharina Fenz: The historical development of the Institute for Social Medicine of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin in research and teaching from 1947 to 1990. Berlin, Med. Diss. FU Berlin; 2012, p. 33
  3. ↑ M. Stürzbecher: On the history of the "Journal for Medical Further Education". Z ärztl Fortb (ZaeF) 1995; 89: 81-86
  4. ^ NN: Josef Kurt Winter (short biography) In: Udo Schagen , Sabine Schleiermacher (Hrsg.) 100 years of social hygiene, social medicine and public health in Germany. Berlin: German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention DGSMP, 2005
  5. ^ Melanie Arndt: Health Policy in Divided Berlin 1948–1961. Chapter "Polyclinics and Outpatient Clinics" - Development and terminology after 1945 . Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau 2009: p. 141 ff
predecessor Office successor
Franz Puetz Editor-in-chief, magazine for medical training
1949–1981 		Hans Berndt
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winter, Josef Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social medicine specialist, university professor, publicist and health politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Glehn
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1987
Place of death Berlin