Moritz Mebel

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Moritz Mebel (born February 23, 1923 in Erfurt ; † April 21, 2021 ) was a German urologist and member of the Central Committee of the SED . Mebel helped set up the kidney transplant system in the GDR .

Life

Moritz Mebel as chief physician at Friedrichshain Hospital, 1971

While he was still in school at the elementary school in Erfurt, where he grew up as the son of a Jewish family, Moritz Mebel emigrated to Moscow with his mother and sister in 1932 . His father followed in 1933. After attending the Moscow German-speaking Karl Liebknecht School , which was closed in 1938, he obtained a university entrance qualification at a Russian school (118th school) and in 1940 began studying medicine at the 1st Moscow Medical Institute.

When it was announced that the units of the German Wehrmacht had succeeded in breaking through the Soviet defense at Moshaisk (about 120 kilometers west of Moscow) and that the enemy was at the gates of Moscow, Moritz Mebel volunteered on October 14, 1941 to the newly established workers' battalions. After a week it was rushed towards Wolokolamsker Chaussee, about 30 kilometers from Moscow. During these years he got to know the inhumane conditions of war. Like his friend Konrad Wolf and other Germans, he fought on the front lines throughout the war years. He spoke to prisoners of war, wrote leaflets and called over loudspeakers - often in barrage - opposing German troops to end the fight. He lived on May 8, 1945 as a first lieutenant in Vyškov , about 50 kilometers east of Brno . Then he fought with his troops in Mongolia against the Japanese.

Moscow 1958: Moritz Mebel defending his doctoral thesis

1945 to 1947 he was in the service of the Soviet military administration in Germany (SMAD) in the administrative district of Halle - Merseburg / Saxony-Anhalt . He then continued his studies in Moscow, which he finished in 1951. A job as a doctor in the Keila District Hospital in the Estonian SSR followed. From 1954 to 1957 he worked as an aspirant at the Department of Urology at the Central Institute for Advanced Medical Education in Moscow, where he received his doctorate from Professor Anatoli Pawlowitsch Frumkin in 1958. med. was awarded a doctorate .

After moving to the GDR in 1958, he first worked as a research assistant at the Surgical Clinic of the Berlin Charité and from 1960 as a senior physician in the urology department of the Hufeland City Hospital in Berlin-Buch. In November 1963 , Mebel completed his habilitation on the subject of bridging total ureter defects after resection with a contribution on a new surgical method . In addition to his work as chief physician of the urological clinic and polyclinic of the Berlin hospital in Friedrichshain , he was also a professor with a teaching position at the Charité from 1966 .

From 1962 he was involved in setting up the first kidney transplant center in the GDR and a research department for problems with kidney transplants in the Friedrichshain hospital. In 1967 he led the professors Harald Dutz and Otto Prokop by the first successful kidney transplant in the GDR after last year Heinz Rockstroh in Halle (Saale) , the first kidney transplant in the GDR had done that was not successful. From 1967 to 1990 he was head of the chronic kidney failure research project.

At the 8th party congress of the SED in 1971 Moritz Mebel was a candidate and at the XI. 1986 member of the Central Committee of the SED .

In 1977 he was appointed full professor of urology at the Charité. In the same year he took up his position as head of the department for experimental organ transplantation at the Charité.

In 1988 Mebel retired . At the last Central Committee meeting with Erich Honecker on October 18, 1989, he publicly called for an end to the "terrible rituals". He lived with his wife, the microbiologist Sonja Mebel († November 30, 2015), in Berlin and on the Egsdorfer Horst in Teupitz until her death . Moritz Mebel died in April 2021 at the age of 98.

Memberships (selection)

  • Member of the Komsomol from 1938 to 1942
  • 1942 candidate and from 1943 to 1958 member of the CPSU
  • 1958 Joined the SED
  • 1967 to 1971 and 1990 member of the Berlin city council
  • From 1971 candidate and from 1986 member of the Central Committee of the SED
  • 1972 founding member of the European Society for Urology
  • 1973 to 1975 Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW)
  • 1975 to 1992 full member of the AdW
  • 1983 to 1990 chairman of the GDR Doctors Committee for the Prevention of Nuclear War, GDR section of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War IPPNW
  • 1984 to 1991 foreign member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR
  • From 1992 foreign member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences
  • 1993 founding member of the learned society Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin
  • 2014 admission to the Russian Academy of Sciences as an external member

Honors

Fonts

  • Contribution to the manual for general and special urology in 11 volumes
  • Collaboration on the textbook Urological Operations Theory
  • Collaboration on the book The Complete Kidney Replacement !? Structure and development of kidney transplantation in the GDR .

In addition, Moritz Mebel has published around 180 scientific articles in his field.

literature

Web links

Commons : Moritz Mebel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b East German physician Moritz Mebel died. In: Zeit Online . April 22, 2021, accessed April 22, 2021 .
  2. ^ Moritz Mebel: Memories of a German Red Army soldier. In: DRAFD.de . July 2005, archived from the original on February 26, 2014 ; accessed on April 23, 2021 .
  3. ^ Moritz Mebel: About the person. In: DRAFD.de. Archived from the original on June 6, 2015 ; accessed on April 23, 2021 .
  4. ↑ Christine Przybylowicz: 1966 The hospital in Friedrichshain in the GDR. (pdf; 5.5 MB) In: Vivantes - 140 Years Hospital in Friedrichshain, October 8, 1874 to October 8, 2014. October 2014, p. 26 , accessed on May 19, 2019 . Moritz Mebel: 1972 duty and discipline of a doctor. (pdf; 5.5 MB) In: Vivantes - 140 Years Hospital in Friedrichshain, October 8, 1874 to October 8, 2014. October 2014, p. 27 , accessed on May 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 70th anniversary: ​​world's first kidney transplant succeeds - GDR follows suit. In: MDR time travel . February 12, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Mohamed Ali Saleh al-Mwalad: Urinary fistulas and ureteral stenoses after kidney transplantation. (pdf; 1.4 MB) Dissertation, University of Halle. August 30, 2005, pp. 1, 24 , accessed April 23, 2021 .
  7. ^ New Germany , June 20, 1971.
  8. ^ New Germany, April 22, 1986.
  9. ↑ Eberhard Aurich : collapse: memories, documents, insights . Publishing house copy + print, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063738-4 , p. 117 .
  10. ↑ Obituary for Sonja Mebel. In: Junge Welt , 5./6. December 2015.
  11. ↑ Lothar Tyb'l: The whole island is very splendid. In: New Germany . September 11, 2010, accessed April 23, 2021 .
  12. ↑ Мёбель Мориц. In: ras.ru . March 18, 2015, accessed July 28, 2020 (Russian).
  13. ^ Jörg Pauly: GBM Delegate Conference 2010. In: gbmev.de. Archived from the original on June 28, 2010 ; accessed on April 23, 2021 .
  14. ↑ Patrick Conley: Features and reports on radio in the GDR. Recordings from 1964–1991 . 2nd Edition. Askylt Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-9807372-0-9 , p. 147 , doi : 10.15496 / publication-4416 .
personal data
SURNAME Mebel, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German urologist and SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 2021