Medical Mission Institute Würzburg

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The Association for Overseas Medical Service - Missionsärztliches Institut Würzburg is an association based in Würzburg and was founded in 1922 to train mission doctors and nurses. Today the institute is the only Catholic department for international health in Germany. The Medical Mission Institute has had its headquarters at Salvatorstrasse 7 on Mönchberg since 1928 .

history

The institute was founded by a Salvatorian , Father Christophorus Becker , who previously worked as Apostolic Prefect of Assam in India, and opened on December 3, 1922 to train missionary doctors and sisters. The focus was on Africa. The institute received its own building in 1928, blessed by Bishop Matthias Ehrenfried on the Würzburg Mönchberg. In 1962 it had 200 members and was instrumental in the successful development of Catholic missions after the Second World War.

The supporting association of the Medical Mission Institute, a Catholic association , was renamed the Association for Medical Services Overseas in 1971 .

The missionary doctor Johanna Decker , murdered in Rhodesia in 1977 , had been working there since 1950 on behalf of the Medical Mission Institute.

Objectives and areas of work

The aim of the Medical Mission Institute is to improve health conditions, especially for disadvantaged people and population groups in countries in the south with a focus on Africa. The institute cooperates with organizations involved in church development cooperation, church-run health services in countries in the South, other civil society organizations and various German development cooperation institutions.

The main areas of work are:

  • Adapted technologies in healthcare
  • Humanitarian Cooperation
  • HIV / AIDS
  • Health Services and Population Medicine
  • Tropical medicine

At the same time, the institute is the main shareholder of the "Mission Medical Clinic" ( Missioklinik ) in Würzburg, also located at Salvatorstrasse 7 , an academic teaching and training hospital of the University of Würzburg . The connection to the clinic, especially the tropical medicine department (headed by the internist, infectiologist and tropical medicine specialist August Stich), should enable a connection with topics of clinical practice, especially in the areas of training, curriculum development and operational research. Specialists of the institute work in the training and further education in the institute and missionary medical clinic and advise and teach in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and Oceania.

literature

  • Wolfgang Leischner: Medical missions in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe: on the history of the mission hospitals in the Archdiocese of Bulawayo and the biographies of their leading doctors. Diss., Würzburg 2004.
  • Richard Hölzl: The body of the heathen as a modern heterotopia. Catholic missionary medicine in the interwar period . In: Historische Anthropologie , Vol. 19 (2011), pp. 54–81 ( digitized version ).
  • Luitgard Fleischer: Medical Mission Institute Würzburg, 1922–1997. Medical Mission Institute, Würzburg 1997.
  • Lioba Essen: Catholic medical mission in Germany 1922–1945. The Würzburg Medical Mission Institute, its graduates, the fields of work. Med. Hochsch., Diss., Hannover 1990.
  • Thomas Schmid: Statistical survey of the internal patient population of the Medical Mission Clinic in Würzburg. 1982.
  • Urban Rapp: healing and salvation. 50 years Medical Mission Institute, Würzburg, 1922–1972. Medical Mission Institute, Würzburg 1972.
  • Sebastian Weih: The Medical Mission Institute, Würzburg. Medical Mission Institute, Würzburg 1938.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ www.medmissio.de Articles of Association (PDF)
  2. ↑ Klaus Witt City: church and state in the 20th century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 453–478 and 1304 f., Here: pp. 455–458: The Church Development under Bishop Ferdinand Schlör (1898–1924). P. 457 f.
  3. ↑ Erik Soder von Güldenstubbe : The first plan to build a tropical clinic in Würzburg in 1933 failed. In: Andreas Mettenleiter (Ed.): Tempora mutantur et nos? Festschrift for Walter M. Brod on his 95th birthday. With contributions from friends, companions and contemporaries. Akamedon, Pfaffenhofen 2007 (= From Würzburg's city and university history. Volume 2), ISBN 3-940072-01-X , pp. 213–222, here: pp. 213 f.
  4. ↑ One of the doctors who joined the institute as early as 1922 was Anna Roggen (1897–1929), who worked as a missionary doctor worldwide for life.
  5. ↑ Erik Soder von Güldenstubbe: Bishop Matthias Ehrenfried. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 479-481 and 1305, here: p. 479.
  6. ↑ 2.4 Catholic Mission Medical Care. In: Horst Robert Balz, Gerhard Krause, Gerhard Müller: Theologische Realenzyklopädie . Walter de Gruyter, 1994, ISBN 3-11-013852-2 , Volume 23, p. 79.
  7. ↑ The first formulation was: "The poor and the sick should find healing and salvation through us in all the world". Quoted from Klaus Wittstadt: Church and State in the 20th Century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 453–478 and 1304 f., Here: pp. 455–458: The Church Development under Bishop Ferdinand Schlör (1898–1924). P. 457.
  8. ↑ Joachim Rüppel: Poverty and AIDS - a deadly connection. In: August Petermann, Ernst Behm, Alexander Georg Supan, Paul Max Harry Langhans, Nikolaus Creutzburg, Hermann Haack: Land use versus nature conservation. Klett-Perthes, 2001. Volume 145, ISBN 3-623-08081-0 , p. 46 ff.
  9. ↑ Hans Wilderotter, Michael Dorrmann: The great dying: epidemics make history. Jovis, 1995, p. 438 ff.
  10. ↑ Missiokllinik (website) .