Max Ratschow

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Max Ratschow (born August 7, 1904 in Rostock , † November 8, 1963 in Darmstadt ) was a German physician and the founder of angiology .

Life

Ratschow was one of five children of Ernst Ratschow (1865-1937), a senior bank clerk and businessman, and Clara Hoffschlaeger (1878-1956, married Ratschow). As a schoolboy, Max Ratschow joined the anti- republic German Volkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund in 1921 . After completing an apprenticeship in forestry, he studied forest sciences from 1924 and passed the forest management examination in Schwerin in 1926 . At the same time he began studying medicine at the universities of Rostock , Freiburg , Vienna , Munich and Berlin . In 1930 he was at the University of Breslau for Dr. med. doctorate and was an assistant doctor in Frankfurt am Main until 1932 . He then worked as a senior physician in Hamburg until 1939 and completed his habilitation in 1936 at Kiel University . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2,817,843). From 1939, with interruptions due to military service in the reserve hospital and as a troop doctor, he worked at the University of Halle and became an adjunct professor there in 1943 .

After the war, Ratschow joined the CDU . In 1946 he was entrusted with the management of the Medical Polyclinic of the University of Halle and in 1948 he was appointed full professor for pathological physiology. In 1950 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1952 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he set up a clinic for vascular diseases . He became the founder of angiology in Germany. From 1953 he was full professor for internal medicine and director of the Darmstadt Medical Clinic . In 1962 he became an honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg . Ratschow died of a heart attack . The standard work Angiology - Pathology, Clinic and Therapy of Peripheral Circulatory Disorders emerged in 1959 from his monograph The peripheral circulatory disorders . A test that he introduced to diagnose circulatory disorders of the lower extremities is called the Ratschow storage sample .

The Darmstadt Clinic named the "Max Ratschow Clinic for Angiology" after him and the Darmstadt municipality named a street.

The German Society for Angiology has been awarding the "Max Ratschow Prize" since 1968 and the "Curatorium Angiologiae Internationalis" since 1969 the "Ratschow Memorial Medal".

Fonts (selection)

  • Experimental and clinical studies on artificial venous obliteration, with special emphasis on calorosis. Wroclaw 1930.
  • The peripheral circulatory disorders. Steinkopff, Dresden 1939.
  • The sex hormones as a remedy for internal diseases. Enke, Stuttgart 1942.
  • (Ed.): Angiology: pathology, clinic and therapy of peripheral circulatory disorders. Thieme, Stuttgart 1959.
  • Circulatory disorders and eye. Enke, Stuttgart 1962.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Max Ratschow in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)
  2. ↑ His middle brother Ernst Ratschow (1907–1987) took over the parental business, the younger Carl Heinz Ratschow became a theologian. Cf. Ratschow, Carl Heinz Franz Johann Gustav in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on October 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ The father ran a linen, linen and bedding business in Rostock, located in the Ratschow house , Kröpeliner Straße 82.
  4. ↑ Cf. Ratschow, Carl Heinz Franz Johann Gustav in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on October 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b H. W. Pässler: Obituary for Max Ratschow. In: Thoracic Surgery and Vascular Surgery. Volume 11, Issue 3, 1964.
  6. ^ B. Lüderitz, G. Arnold: 75 years of the German Society for Cardiology - Heart and Circulatory Research. Springer, 2002, ISBN 3-540-41431-2 , p. 110.
  7. ↑ Ratschow Memorial Medal , at Bauerfeind AG
personal data
SURNAME Ratschow, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and the founder of angiology
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1963
Place of death Darmstadt