Max-Joseph Halhuber
Max-Joseph Halhuber (born February 29, 1916 in Innsbruck , Tyrol , † December 15, 2011 in Bad Berleburg , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany ) was an Austrian cardiologist .
Life
Halhuber studied medicine in Innsbruck , Vienna and Freiburg . He was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. From 1940 to 1945 he worked as a military doctor. After a scholarship in 1947 as a visiting physician with Jean Lenègre in Paris, he worked as a senior physician at the Innsbruck University Clinic until 1966 . From there he moved to Germany in 1967 and was the first medical director of the Höhenried Clinic for cardiovascular diseases on Lake Starnberg , where he fundamentally changed cardiological rehabilitation. During his time in Höhenried he was a professor at the Technical University of Munich . Halhuber was one of the founders of the German Heart Foundation . He retired in 1981.
Halhuber was a member of the Catholic student union KAV Rheno-Danubia Innsbruck from 1936 . Halhuber was married twice. First from 1944 to 1970 with Marlene Ahlmann, who was previously married to Rudolf-August Oetker . In 1970 Max-Joseph Halhuber married the widowed doctor Carola Branovic, née Malten (* 1936 in Baden-Baden ). Carola Halhuber is considered the " mother of INR self-measurement" (patient self-management of blood coagulation during oral anticoagulation ).
Awards
- Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
Fonts
In 2007 he wrote an autobiography entitled “We are the last, ask us!” 90-year-old Max-Joseph Halhuber's experiences and insights .
Web links
- Literature by and about Max-Joseph Halhuber in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Halhuber, Max-Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian cardiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 29, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Innsbruck , Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 2011 |
| Place of death | Bad Berleburg |