Ludwig Pfannemüller

Ludwig Pfannemüller (* 1915 ; † 2008 ) was a German doctor and specialist in internal diseases and tropical medicine .

Life

During the Second World War he served as a military doctor on the Eastern Front . After the war he worked in numerous countries around the world, partly on behalf of the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). He lived and worked in Afghanistan , Iraq , North Korea and Saudi Arabia, among others . He was also one of the personal physicians of the last emperor of Ethiopia , Haile Selassie . In 1972 he was appointed head of the newly founded tropical medical examination center of the GAWI, today's German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Frankfurt am Main .

Pfannemüller was very interested in art and literature throughout his life. The auction of his legacy of ancient art treasures in 2009 led to diplomatic entanglements, as Iraq suspected looted art to be among them .

He bequeathed his considerable fortune to the aid organization Doctors Without Borders and to a foundation administered by the city of Kronberg im Taunus , where he spent the last years of his life.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Young-sun Hong: Cold War Germany, the Third World, and the Global Humanitarian Regime. New York 2015, p. 98.
2. ↑ D + C development and cooperation . Volumes 13-14, German Foundation for International Development, 1972, p. 35.
3. ↑ Andreas Ulrich: Unesco accusation: US soldiers have destroyed cultural treasures in Babylon. In: Spiegel Online . July 9, 2009, accessed February 7, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Dr. Ludwig Pfannemüller Foundation - Kronberg City Administration. (No longer available online.) In: kronberg.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on February 7, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.