Martin Luther Hospital (Berlin)
The Martin Luther Hospital is a Protestant hospital in the Schmargendorf district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin . The hospital has 285 beds. It is an academic teaching hospital of the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin .
The specialist departments include trauma surgery , general , visceral and vascular surgery , plastic surgery , gynecology and obstetrics , internal medicine and intensive care medicine .
Every year around 11,000 inpatients and 14,000 outpatients are treated. The house is run by the Martin-Luther-Krankenhaus-Betriebs-GmbH . The hospital is part of the Johannesstift Diakonie .
history
The background to the establishment was the growing number of new Catholic hospitals in Berlin, the discussion about a ban on hospital pastoral care in city hospitals, and the increase in Berlin's population.
The building was constructed from 1930. The architect was Ernst Kopp . On April 1, 1931, the 400-bed house was opened. Chief physician of paediatrics was the senior staff physician a. D. Hans Eckert.
A prominent patient was the violinist Yehudi Menuhin , who died here on March 12, 1999 of heart failure. In 1960 Ernst Schoen died in the Martin Luther Hospital , unnoticed by the public .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Luther Hospital: About Us
- ↑ Walter Marle (Ed.): Lexicon of the entire therapy with diagnostic information. 2 volumes, 4th revised edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1935 ( list of employees ).
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 27.8 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 29 ″ E