Medical Academy Gdansk

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Gdansk Municipal Hospital

The Gdansk Medical Academy was a university in Gdansk from 1935 to 1945 .

Gdansk City Hospital

Site plan (1911)

At the beginning of the 20th century Gdansk had four hospitals. The charitable ones were the St. Mary's and the Deaconess Hospital. The two public were maintained by the city. The Sandgrube military hospital was used for surgical treatment, the hospital at Olivaer Tor for treating other diseases. The two institutions were far apart. The management was expensive and the transfer of sick people was laborious. The structural and sanitary facilities were no longer sufficient. Therefore the city of Gdańsk decided to build a connected general hospital.

From 1907, a municipal hospital was built on Delbrück-Allee in Danzig-Langfuhr . The driving force was Arthur Barth , who had been in charge of surgery in the old hospital since 1896. The new house was opened in April 1911, initially with 700 beds. 26 buildings with 16 pavilions stood on the 157,572 m² site . In the first few years surgery and internal medicine were the main subjects.

An expansion became necessary due to the First World War . A department with 200 beds was set up for dermatology and venereology alone . In 1927 the Institute for X-ray Diagnostics and Radiation Therapy was established . In 1933 an orthopedic and a rehabilitation department were added to a central laboratory . In 1934 the house was able to accept 1,160 patients. The surgery had 320 beds. In the middle of the hospital complex was a two-story operation building . In the interwar period , the hospital was the most modern in West Prussia . The highly specialized doctors regularly traveled abroad for operations and lectures . In 1934 the hospital was able to accept 1,160 patients. The number of beds was

  1. Surgery 320
  2. Internal medicine 300
  3. Dermatology 200
  4. Pediatrics 230
  5. Psychiatry 50
  6. Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine 45
  7. Ophthalmology 15

The nursing service and the work in the kitchen and laundry were assigned to a sisterhood of the Evangelical Diakonie Association Berlin-Zehlendorf . It ran its own nursing and massage school, a pharmacy and a school for nursing babies and toddlers. The technical operation was supervised by a civil servant city engineer. In a wonderful location above the Gdańsk Bay , the hospital was the "largest and most modern general hospital in East Germany".

Medical Academy

The surgeon Heinrich Klose , qualified chief physician at the municipal hospital, initiated the medical training in the Free City of Danzig . On April 13, 1935, the State Academy for Practical Medicine was opened. At first she only taught clinical subjects. Access was restricted with a numerus clausus . When Danzig in the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia again belonged to the German Reich , the pre-clinical subjects were added in 1940 . The medical facilities were modernized and new institutes and teaching staff were added.

On November 29, 1940 the name was changed to Medical Academy Gdansk (MAD). From then on, a full study of medicine up to the state examination was possible. When most universities were closed during World War II , the MAD had a record attendance. Partially destroyed, it was restored and opened as the Polish Danzig Academic Medical School on November 1, 1945 .

Ordinaries

The first professors were

Directors / Rectors

literature

  • Arthur Barth : The surgical department of the city hospital in Gdansk . German journal for surgery 166 (1921), pp. 1-9.
  • Arthur Berner: The Municipal Hospital in Danzig . German Medical Weekly , No. 30, September 1934, pp. 1356-1357.
  • Walter Büngeler : The newly founded State Academy for Practical Medicine in Danzig . German Medical Wochenschrift 61 (1935), pp. 551-554.
  • Paul Ziegenhagen: A look back at the history of medicine in Danzig on the occasion of the opening of the State Academy for Practical Medicine in Danzig . Medical World 9 (1935), pp. 547-550.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c A. Berner (1934)
  2. ↑ today Dębinki, Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz
  3. ↑ today Dyrekcyjna
  4. ↑ a b Thaddäus Zajaczkowski : Remembering Arthur Barth (1858-1927). Towering achievements of a modest man. European Urology Today March / May 2013, p. 25.
  5. ↑ a b T. Zajaczkowski (2009) ( Memento from February 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 799 kB)
  6. ↑ Büngeler (DÄB 1986)
  7. ↑ Entry on Erwin Becher in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)
  8. ↑ Nast ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.enzyklopaedie-dermatologie.de
  9. ↑ Adam (FAU)
  10. ↑ Wagner (CAU)