Paul Martini (medical doctor)

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Paul Martini (born January 25, 1889 in Frankenthal (Pfalz) , † September 8, 1964 in Galenberg ) was a German doctor and university professor .

Life

After studying medicine in Munich and Kiel, he received his doctorate in 1917. From 1908 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Aenania Munich . Later he became a member of the KDStV Bavaria Bonn and the KDStV Trifels Munich. He was a participant in the First World War and then also a member of the Epp Freikorps . After a long time he qualified as an assistant, then senior physician at the 2nd Medical Clinic of the University of Munich with Friedrich von Müller. He was appointed associate professor in 1926 and was able to move to the St. Hedwig Hospital in Berlin as chief physician in 1927 .

During his time in Berlin he wrote important works on the formation of therapeutic judgments and, in 1932, his book “Methods of Therapeutic Investigation”. In many writings his dissatisfaction with the mechanisms of therapeutic judgment formation at that time becomes evident. In 1932 he was appointed to the chair for internal medicine at the University of Bonn and continued his therapeutic studies there. He was also drafted in World War II and decorated with EK II and KVK II . By the time of National Socialism of the Catholic left, though not without anti-Semitic reservations, yet without undue entanglement, which is why he in 1948 first president of the German Society of Internal Medicine was (DGIM) after the war and the first Internist Congress headed (Wiesbaden). In 1953/54 he was rector of the university in Bonn and retired in 1959 .

After 1949 Martini also worked as a doctor for Konrad Adenauer and other Bonn politicians. Adenauer's calendar lists more than 60 encounters between 1949 and 1962 with Martini, who soon also acted as Adenauer's political advisor, particularly in science policy.

Honors

A street in the Venusberg clinic district of Bonn is named after Paul Martini.

Works

  • 1927 The immediate medical check-up: seeing, hearing and feeling medical things
  • 1932 Methodology of therapeutic investigation (later editions under the title: Methodology of therapeutic-clinical research)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The honorary members, old men and students of the CV, of the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations , Vienna / Strasbourg 1924, p. 402.
  2. ^ Letter to Erich Krauss, July 10, 1933, from Forsbach, Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn , pp. 140 f.
  3. ↑ Hans-Georg Hofer : Between the clinic and the Chancellery. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 5, 2019, p. 35.
  4. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 392
  5. ^ Member entry by Paul Martini at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 10, 2015.
  6. ↑ https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-bd&q=Paul-Martini-Stra%C3%9Fe
personal data
SURNAME Martini, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenthal (Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1964
Place of death Galenberg