Max-Hermann Hörder

Max-Hermann Hörder 1969

Max-Hermann Alexander Hörder (born September 1, 1925 in Leisnig ; † February 13, 1996 in Bergün , Graubünden , Switzerland ) was a German doctor . His work and research focused on the areas of hematology and tropical medicine . From 1960 to 1961 he was personal physician and medical advisor to King Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz in Riyadh for a year .

Life

Postcard from Nikos Kazantzakis to his doctor Max-Hermann Hörder, sent on July 13, 1957 in Chongqing .

Max-Hermann Hörder was the only child of the specialist in surgery and gynecology, Max Otto Alexander Hörder, and his wife Elisabeth b. Rolef. In 1928 the von Leisnig family moved to nearby Rochlitz , where their father took over the position of chief physician at the municipal hospital. In Rochlitz, Max-Hermann Hörder attended the local elementary school and then the state high school.

After graduating from high school , he was drafted into the land forces of the German Wehrmacht as a simple soldier in 1944 and served in combat in Northern Italy and Holland. While withdrawing from the Netherlands, he was shot by a sniper and lost a finger in his right hand. After being released from a brief American prisoner-of-war camp, Hörder made up his Abitur in 1946, as the Abitur, which he completed in 1944, was not recognized by many universities. In the Soviet occupation zone with no prospect of a university place , he enrolled in 1946 to study medicine at the Georg-August University of Göttingen , which he was able to complete in 1952 with a state examination and doctorate.

On July 12, 1952, he married Thea-Dolores Wilde in Hannoversch Münden . The marriage has four daughters. In 1953 Hörder received a research grant from the Swiss company Hoffmann-La Roche and was able to work in the internal department of the Freiburg University Hospital under Ludwig Heilmeyer . There he devoted himself intensively to hematological research in addition to his internistic work . In 1959 Hörder received his habilitation with a thesis on the fifth blood coagulation factor .

Through his work at Ludwig Heilmeyer's private ward, which had an excellent reputation worldwide, he was responsible for the medical care of many personalities from politics and culture, including Kurt Birrenbach , Arnold Bergstraesser , Erna Döblin and Nikos Kazantzakis , with whom we were very friendly . At the end of 1960, Max-Hermann Hörder traveled to Saudi Arabia for a year on behalf of Ludwig Heilmeyer to work in Riyadh as personal physician and medical advisor to King Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz , after he had previously treated the king in Freiburg would have.

After his return he continued his research in the fields of blood coagulation factors and tropical medicine at the University Medical Center Freiburg. In 1964 he was a founding member of the German Society for Hematology and moved to the Medical Academy Lübeck as senior physician, later senior physician on the board of directors . There he was appointed adjunct professor in December 1965 . From 1966 to 1972 he was an adjunct professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . At the same time he took over the management of the medical department of the Dr. Karl Thomae GmbH in Biberach as well as the establishment of the clinical pharmacology department in the company group of the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim .

After a short stopover as a consultant at the Cantonal Hospital of Graubünden, he moved to Ulm in 1972 . Hörder became chief physician at the local Bethesda hospital and an adjunct professor at Ulm University . There, in 1979, he was able to document a rare case of visceral leishmaniasis ("Kala-Azar") acquired in Europe . After his retirement in 1993 he took part in aid missions for Doctors for Developing Countries in Ethiopia and the Philippines . Max-Hermann Hörder died of a pulmonary embolism while staying in the high mountains of the canton of Graubünden .

Max-Hermann Hörder was a nephew of the writer and doctor Carl Hörder and the cousin of the entrepreneur Otto Hinrich Schmill .

Publications and discoveries

• 1955: First description of a blood coagulation factor V deficiency and a blood coagulation factor V inhibitor (FVI)
• 1957: Discovery and first description of the X. blood coagulation factor ; parallel and independent of an English (C. Hougie et al.) and a Swiss (Bachmann et al.) research group
• 1963 and 1964: Two medical sociological studies together with Theodor Hanf about Saudi Arabia and the Middle East which personal suggestion Arnold Bergstraessers emerged

A total of over 60 articles in well-known, scientific journals.

Honors

• 1980: Rudolf Jürgens Memorial Medal for outstanding services to blood coagulation research, presented by the chairmen of the 23rd Hamburg International Symposium on Blood Coagulation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralph Hübner: Who is Who in the Federal Republic of Germany. Edition 1996, DNB 015868117 .
2. ↑ DNB: Max Otto Alexander Hörder . Authority record DNB 139536361 .
3. ↑ Max-Hermann Hörder: Investigations on the detection method of conteben in blood and serum. Dissertation . 1952, DNB 480289085 .
4. ↑ SüdWestPresse, obituary notice, March 7, 2015 reference
5. ↑ Max-Hermann Hörder: Experimental and clinical studies on the fifth blood coagulation factor. Habilitation thesis . 1959, DNB 480023476 .
6. ^ Michael Hertl, Renate Hertl: Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse, Nikos Kazantzakis; Years of life and suffering with leukemia. Königshausen & Neumann publishing house, Würzburg 2004, p. 122, DNB 971561044 .
7. ↑ Julia Littmann: "Alexis Sorbas" author died 60 years ago in Freiburg . Badische Zeitung, October 26, 2017 Reference .
8. ↑ Kiel list of scholars: Kiel professors from 1919 to 1965 - Max-Hermann Hörder. accessed on June 9, 2018
9. ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten: Inaugural Lectures in the Med. Academy - Professors Dr. Mr. von Massenbach and Dr. Hörder speak about their areas. January 28, 1966, p. 6.
10. ↑ M. Hörder, E. Vanek, B. Heymer: Kala-Azar acquired in Europe. Case report taking into account epidemiology and therapy. In: Medical World. February 23, 1979, pp. 280-284. PMID 423749 .
11. ^ German Doctors e. V .: 30 years of help that lasts . Anniversary brochure. 2013, p. 60 (PDF)
12. ↑ Hitoshi Endo et al .: Acquired Factor V Inhibitor Responsive to Corticosteroids in a Patient with Double Cancers. In: Internal Medicine. May 1, 2007, p. 621, The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine. PMID 17473502 .
13. ↑ P. Knöbl, K. Lechner: Acquired factor V inhibitors. In: Baillieres Clin Haematol. June 11, 1998. PMID 10097809 .
14. ^ Max-Hermann Hörder: Congenital familial factor VII deficiency with an additional defect in thromboplastin formation. In: Acta Haematologica. 1958, 19, pp. 30-39, ISSN  0001-5792 , karger.com .
15. ↑ Ludwig Heilmeyer: Presentation on the habilitation thesis by MH Hörder "Experimental and clinical studies on the V. blood coagulation factor". 1959.
16. ↑ Max-Hermann Hörder, Theodor Hanf: Illness and social structure in Saudi Arabia: A study on the question d. Important social factors for medicine in developing countries. In: Freiburg University Gazette. 1963, no . 3, DNB 573807760 .
17. ↑ Max-Hermann Hörder, Theodor Hanf: The change in the doctor-patient relationship as a current problem in medicine in developing countries. In: W. Keiderling (Ed.): Contributions to internal medicine . Stuttgart 1964, pp. 529-534.
18. ↑ Werner Schuder: Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar 1980. 13th edition, Walter de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin 1979, p. 1576, DNB 010029699 .