Peter Schwartze

Peter Schwartze (1988)

Peter Schwartze (born May 23, 1931 in Bad Salzuflen ) is a German doctor . From 1980 to 1992 he was director of the Carl Ludwig Institute for Physiology at the University of Leipzig .

Life

Schwartze was born in Bad Salzuflen in 1931 , the son of a pastor . After the Second World War he graduated from high school in the Soviet zone of occupation . In 1946 he joined the Free German Youth shortly after it was founded, and in 1947 he became a member of the Kulturbund . After graduating from high school , Schwartze was admitted to medical school in 1950, which he completed until 1957 at the universities of Rostock , Greifswald and Leipzig. During his studies he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1954 . With the dissertationDouble stress effects in castrated, sex hormone-treated male and female albino rats, shown by the histological changes in the thyroid, adrenal and pituitary gland , Schwartze was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. Then in 1958 he got his first job as an ambulance and company doctor in the VEB lead ore mine "Albert Funk" in Halsbrücke . After this practical test, Schwartze moved as an assistant doctor to the children's clinic of the hospitals in the neighboring mining town of Freiberg in 1959 , where he worked until 1962 and completed specialist training as a pediatrician . He then switched to medicine at what was then the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , where he completed his training as a specialist in physiology in 1966. In 1969 he received his habilitation and was appointed senior physician. From 1974 Schwartze initially worked as a university lecturer and in 1978 received the first chair for pathological physiology at Leipzig University. After the death of Hans Drischel , Schwartze was made head of the renowned Carl Ludwig Institute for Physiology.

As head of this internationally respected institute, Schwartze ran for the Volkskammer elections in 1981 for the first time for the Kulturbund of the GDR as successor candidate . In 1982 he replaced the late Alexander Abusch and became a member of the People's Chamber. In the 1986 Volkskammer elections he was re-elected as a member of the Volkskammer.

During the political change , Schwartze belonged to a temporary committee of the People's Chamber, which was supposed to investigate abuse of office, corruption and personal enrichment. In 1992 Schwartze was dismissed from his position as director, and Edith Göpfert became his successor .

Publications

• Experimental studies on the electroontogenesis of the brain. With special consideration of the relationships between the electrographic wake-up response and the development of the olfactory sense. Karl Marx University Leipzig 1970 ( habilitation thesis ).
• (together with Hannelore Schwartze): Physiology of the fetal, newborn and childhood age. An introduction . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1977.
• Hans Drischel , the physiologist and academic teacher . In: Scientific journal of the Karl Marx University Leipzig. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe 29, Heft 2 (1980) , pp. 81-90.
• Mechanisms and physiological parameters of brain dysfunction . In: Pädiatrie und Grenzgebiet , 19 (1980), pp. 31-42.
• (together with Yannis Laouris and J. Kalli-Laouri): The postnatal development of the air-righting reaction in albino rats. Quantitative analysis of normal development and the effect of preventing nec-torso and torsopelvis rotations . In: Behavioral Brain Research , 37 (1990), pp. 37-44.
• (together with Yannis Laouris and J. Kalli-Laouri): The influence of altered head, thorax and pelvis mass on the postnatal development of the air-righting reaction in albino rats . In: Behavioral Brain Research , 38 (1990), pp. 185-190.
• History of the Institute for Pathological Physiology at the University of Leipzig: The development of a scientific concept and its implementation 1956 to 1992. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7329-0167-8 .

literature

• The People's Chamber of the GDR. 9th legislative term. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1987, p. 569

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neue Zeit of November 20, 1989, p. 1.