Richard Kepp

Richard Kurt Kepp (born February 7, 1912 in Sibiu ; † February 5, 1984 in Bremen ) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician .

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Richard Kepp was born in 1912 as the second son of the high school professor Friedrich Kepp (1875–1948) and his wife Gabriele, née. Hochmeister (1879–1973), born in Transylvania . After visiting the elementary school and the Brukenthal - High School in Sibiu studied Richard Kepp 1929-1935 medicine at the University of Cluj . Here he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . From February 15, 1936 to August 31, 1937, Kepp worked as an assistant doctor at the Martin Luther Hospital in Sibiu. He then moved to the, initially as a volunteer assistant and later as a scheduled assistantUniversity Women's Clinic Göttingen , where he received his gynecological training under Heinrich Martius .

In 1941 he married the doctor Annemarie Schneider from Bromberg . The couple had three children, two sons and a daughter. During the Second World War , Kepp was released from Romanian military service. His voluntary registration with the German armed forces was not granted because his application for naturalization , which was a requirement for military service, had been rejected.

In 1943 , Kepp completed his habilitation with Martius. In 1945 he was granted German citizenship . At the same time he was appointed private lecturer and in 1949 extraordinary professor . On October 1, 1956, he accepted the chair for obstetrics and gynecology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , where he was also appointed director of the women's clinic.

From 1959 to 1960 Richard Kepp was dean of the medical faculty and from 1965 to 1966 rector of the university . In 1966 he was elected to the board of the German Society for Gynecology , was treasurer from 1966 to 1978 , its president from 1970 to 1972 and organized its 1972 congress in Wiesbaden . From 1967 to 1976 he was also chairman of the board of the Giessen University Society .

Kepp headed the Gießen University Women's Clinic until his retirement on February 29, 1980. Wolfgang Künzel from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg was appointed to his successor .

Richard Kepp spent his retirement with his daughter in Bremen. He died here in 1984 two days before his 72nd birthday.

Richard Kepp's main areas of work were the organization of the fight against cancer within the framework of the working group for the fight against cancer of the state of Lower Saxony , of which he was a member of the board from 1952, and radiation protection. From 1958 to 1964 he was a member of the Reactor Safety Commission at the then Federal Ministry for Scientific Research, responsible for medical radiation protection in projects for the construction of nuclear power plants. He also dealt with radiation biology and methods of radiation therapy in gynecology.

From 1960 he devoted himself to family planning. From 1967 to 1973 Kepp was President of Pro Familia , the German Society for Sex Education and Family Planning, and was involved in several committees in the preparation of the new version of Section 218 ( termination of pregnancy ).

Fonts (selection)

• Richard Kepp: The treatment of intolerable pain caused by genital cancer with paravertebral and presacral alcohol injections. Habilitation thesis , Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1943
• Richard Kepp: Basics of radiation therapy: physics, biology and general therapy. Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1952
• Richard Kepp: Gynecological radiation therapy: indication, methodology and medical care. Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1952
• Richard Kepp, Plinio Sferra: Ratioterapia ginecologica: Indicazioni, metodica e cura medica. Abruzzini, Rome 1955
• Richard Kepp: Conception regulation for women and men. Aesopus-Verlag, Wiesbaden, Lugano 1966
• Richard Kepp, Hans-Joachim Staemmler, Heinrich Martius : Textbook of gynecology. Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1971

Honors

The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina appointed Richard Kepp a member in 1970. He was made an honorary member of the Northwest German Society for Gynecology (1982), the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics (1974), the Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics in Argentina (1953) and the Italian Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics (1978). In 1979 he was awarded the Transylvanian-Saxon Culture Prize in Dinkelsbühl .

literature

• Hans Ludwig , Walter Jonat : German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics - From Program to Embassy. A short history (1886-2008) of the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics reviewing its 57 congresses. 2nd edition 2008. German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics, ISBN 3-00-009676-0
• Hanns Dietel , Jürgen Heinrich: The North German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics. A documentation on the occasion of the 95th anniversary. NGGG 2004, online (PDF document; 2.9 MB)
• Joseph Trausch , Friedrich Schuller, Hermann Adolf Hienz: Writer's Lexicon of the Transylvanian Germans: KL. Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2001, ISBN 3-412-15200-5 ( full text in the Google book search).