Paul Steinbrück

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Paul Steinbrück (born August 5, 1911 in Helbra , † November 30, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German medic .

Paul Steinbrück

Life

Paul Steinbrück studied medicine at the Martin Luther University in Halle / Saale and received his doctorate in 1936. med. with Emil Abderhalden . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP . He worked as a specialist in Sangerhausen, Berlin, Hanover and Magdeburg.

In 1951 he was appointed by the Ministry of Health of the GDR to set up a central tuberculosis research institute in Berlin-Buch . Here he combined basic and clinical research under one roof. The aim of this institute was to coordinate previous measures to combat tuberculosis and to develop an effective strategy. Under his leadership, the research institute became the leading institute for tuberculosis control in the GDR. One of his priorities was the epidemiology of tuberculosis . He initiated the introduction of the chest x-ray examination in the GDR as well as the introduction of the tuberculosis vaccination. A clear decrease in new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in the GDR was achieved.

In 1963 Paul Steinbrück completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In the same year he became a professor with a teaching position for pulmonology at the Humboldt University. In 1964 he took over the chair of lung diseases at the Academy for Medical Training. In 1964, together with three senior staff at his institute, he received the GDR first-class national prize for science and technology. He was a member and later chairman of the Committee on Epidemiology and Statistics of the International Union Against Tuberculosis. In 1973 he was elected a member of the GDR Academy of Sciences . From 1974 he was a member of an expert commission of the World Health Organization .

Paul Steinbrück was an honorary member of numerous domestic and foreign specialist societies. The Humboldt University made him an honorary doctorate. From 1974 to 1984 Paul Steinbrück was editor of the magazine for diseases of the respiratory organs, later editor in chief of this magazine. After a serious illness he died on November 30, 1994.

Fonts

  • New results from the tuberculosis clinic and research. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1958.
  • Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis and other lung diseases. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1960.
  • Therapy of pulmonary tuberculosis. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1965.
  • X-ray screen photography and its application in medicine. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1971.
  • Robert Koch. Ambrosius Barth Verlag, Leipzig 1982.

literature

  • Bernhard Wiesner: Prof Dr Drhc Paul Steinbrück is 80 years of age. Z.Erkr.Atm.-org. 177 (1991) p. 5.
  • Claus Engelmann: In memoriam Paul Steinbrück. Pneumology 49 (1995) p. 84.
  • Peter Luther : In Memoriam Professor Paul Steinbrück. In: Berlin doctors. 33, H. 2 (1995) p. 25.
  • Twenty years of successful battle against tuberculosis and chronic lung diseases. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1969.
  • Bernhard Wiesner: In Memoriam - Professor Paul Steinbrück on the 100th birthday. In: Pneumologie 65, H. 8 (2011), pp. 456-457.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 324.
personal data
SURNAME Steinbrück, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Helbra
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1994
Place of death Berlin