Reinhard Aschenbrenner

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Reinhard Aschenbrenner (born June 15, 1906 in Munich ; † January 25, 2008 in Hamburg ) was a German internist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1926, Aschenbrenner studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the University of Zurich , the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg , the University of Vienna and again in Munich. He received his doctorate in 1933 under Albert Fraenkel in Heidelberg and went as an intern in internal medicine to Hans Heinrich Berg in Dortmund, from there to the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf . In 1938 he completed his habilitation with a cardiological topic. During the Second World War he was a military doctor in the Russia campaign . He was awarded the Paul Martini Prize for his work on typhus , and from 1944 he worked for the Army Group Center 's special epidemic control group .

Since 1944 apl. Professor for internal medicine at the University of Hamburg , he became medical director of the general hospital Altona and chief physician of the medical department in 1946 . His inaugural address is preserved in the book by Müller-Plathe; it said:

"As much as I am gratefully aware that I am being faced with a beautiful and honorable task here, you will surely be able to empathize with me that I am taking over my office at this time of bitter need and concern with a certain anxiety. The unpredictable catastrophe that befell us Germans overshadows everything we do and think, and it is only too easy to understand that broad sections of our people, out of concern for their relatives, concern for their economic existence and future, even concern for the daily bread are depressed and paralyzed. This feeling of helplessness and abandonment, which sometimes creeps up on all of us, must be reckoned with, especially in our patients, and we must therefore make it our duty not only to treat the physical ailments of our patients, but also to give them a feeling to give security and trust and to awaken their courage to live. "

- Reinhard Aschenbrenner

When the first epidemic of polio appeared in 1947 , the first iron lung in Germany for respiratory paralysis was manufactured in his department (Axel Dönhardt). From this a center for artificial continuous ventilation developed, which led to internal intensive care medicine (Wulf Nachtwey). In the years after 1950 Aschenbrenner published work on cardiological problems in heart attacks. Since 1956 he was a member of the drug commission of the German medical profession , of which he was deputy chairman from 1958 to 1968 and chairman from 1969 to 1977. He then became honorary chairman. He was also one of the members of the Advisory Board for Drug Safety at the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family and Health .

1955 began the new building plans for the general hospital Altona , in which he participated on the medical side until the completion of the new building. During the planning phase, he visited several new clinics in the USA , England , Sweden , Denmark and Switzerland . The new building was carried out under the direction of the architects Werner Kallmorgen and Gustav Karres and began in 1961, and in 1971 the house was put into operation. Aschenbrenner retired that year.

Honors

literature

  • Oswald Müller-Plathe: In the memoriam of Prof. Dr. Dr. Reinhard Aschenbrenner . Hamburger Ärzteblatt 3/08 p. 23
  • W. Nachtwey: Reinhard Aschenbrenner . Hamburger Ärzteblatt, Volume 25, 1971, p. 220

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburger Ärzteblatt 11/2011, p. 37
personal data
SURNAME Aschenbrenner, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2008
Place of death Hamburg