Louis-Heinz Kettler

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Louis-Heinz Kettler , (born December 13, 1910 in Halle (Saale) , † October 21, 1976 in Berlin ) was a German pathologist .

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After high school Louis-Heinz Kettler studied 1929-1934 medicine at the University of Halle and in 1935 with a thesis on developmental disorders of the heart to Dr. med. PhD. In 1936 he volunteered in the Navy . He then worked as a trainee doctor at the Berlin Charité from 1936–1937 . In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP . From 1937 to 1943 he was an assistant doctor at the University of Halle and after his habilitation with the thesis " Resorptive services of the lymph nodes under normal and pathological conditions " from 1943 to 1948 lecturer and senior physician at the University Clinic in Halle. This activity was interrupted by his service as a doctor in various ranks in the Navy from 1939–1944. After the Second World War he became a member of the SED . In November 1948 he became a full professor for pathological anatomy at the University of Halle. In March 1951 he received a call to the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he was director of the Institute for Pathology at the Charité from 1953 until his retirement in 1976.

Kettler was elected a corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1961 and a full member in 1964 . In 1964 he received the National Prize of the GDR III. Class "for his scientific work, especially in the field of pathology of the liver, and for his outstanding contribution to the expansion of the Pathological Institute of the Charité into a modern research and training facility". He was the editor and co-author of several textbooks on pathology.

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  1. ^ Members of the previous academies. Louis-Heinz Kettler. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on April 21, 2015 .
  2. New Germany . October 6, 1964, p. 4 .