Richard Kirsch

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Richard Kirsch

Richard Willy Kirsch (born April 30, 1915 in Berlin-Dahlem ; † June 17, 1971 in Berlin-Mitte ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

Kirsch's parents were the schoolteacher Max Kirsch (1877–1955) and his wife Gertrud Kirsch nee. Koehler (1894–1966).

Kirsch attended the Arndt-Gymnasium Dahlem , the Askanische Gymnasium , the Gymnasium in Berlin-Friedenau and the United Askanische and Tempelhofer Gymnasium in Berlin-Tempelhof . After graduating from high school in February 1933, he studied medicine at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg . In 1938 in Würzburg he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He was a medical intern at the Luitpold Hospital in Würzburg, the Rudolf Hess Hospital in Dresden and the Stubenrauch Hospital in Berlin-Lichterfelde.

Surgical background

From 1939 he was a trainee doctor at the Vienna XX Accident Hospital, an assistant doctor at the Rudolf Hess Hospital in Dresden and an assistant doctor at the district hospital in Rastenburg . From 1941 to 1945 he was a senior physician at the district hospital in Johannisburg , where he became a specialist in surgery in 1944 . He fled East Prussia in 1945 and was placed as a senior physician at the municipal hospital in Nordhausen (alternative location Ilfeld ). After three years as chief physician in Sülzhayn , he moved to the district hospital in Stollberg / Erzgeb in 1948 . There he was also head of the district polyclinic , contract doctor for the People's Police , prison physician, doctor for the Free German Youth and lecturer at the adult education center .

East Berlin

From 1950 to 1955 he was a full-time senior physician at the government hospital of the GDR in East Berlin . He was also a senior physician at the Charité University Tumor Clinic . In 1951/52 he temporarily headed the surgical department of the People's Police Hospital . On May 28, 1952 , he qualified as a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin for surgery. From 1955 to 1960 he was the full-time chief physician at the Charité's tumor clinic and part-time senior physician at the government hospital. Since 1956 he has been professor of surgery with a teaching position at the Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin. In the same year he went to North Vietnam for 9 months . He devoted himself to the establishment and supervision of the Phu-Doan University Hospital ( Wilhelm Pieck Hospital) and the reconstruction of the Viet-Duc Hospital in Hanoi . From 1960 to 1963 he was chief surgeon at the Berlin-Friedrichshain hospital .

Dresden

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From 1963 to 1971 he was director of the surgical clinic of the Medical Academy "Carl Gustav Carus" . In 1964 he also became a specialist in sports medicine . When he was promoted to Doctor of Science (Dr. sc. Med.) On September 1, 1969 , his academic title Dr. med. habil. As full professor of surgery, Kirsch died of carcinoma at the age of 56 . He was buried in the central cemetery in Friedrichsfelde .

Works

  • Sports massage . Sports publishing house, Berlin 1959.
  • with Edeltraud Scholz: Mosquitoes, bamboo and bananas - as a doctor in Vietnam . The children's book publisher, Berlin 1960; 2nd edition 1962.

Societies

Honors

  • Honorary member of the Society for Bio-Medical Technology in the GDR (1971)
  • Honorary member of the Medical Association of Burma , Rangoon (1958)
  • Honorary member of the Association of Surgeons of India , Madras (1959)

literature

  • Gabriela Klotzsche, Beate Acker: Richard Kirsch - doctor and communist . Diploma thesis Dresden 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register, registry office Dahlem, No. 16/1915
  2. ↑ Death register, registry office Berlin-Mitte, No. 1050/1971
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. sc. med. Richard Kirsch (1915–1971)
  4. ↑ Dissertation: The bone graft implantation in chronic arthritis (except tuberculosis) .
  5. ^ Habilitation thesis: The Relationship of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis to the Nervous System .
  6. ↑ In 1968 the PhD B was introduced in the GDR .
personal data
SURNAME Kirsch, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirsch, Richard Willy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon; University professor in East Berlin and Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Dahlem
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 1971
Place of death Berlin center