Robert Janker

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Robert Berthold Janker (born March 12, 1894 in Munich ; † October 22, 1964 in Bonn ) was a German radiologist and university professor .

Life

Origin, studies, professorship and establishment of the institute

Robert Janker was the illegitimate child of the doctor Robert Berthold Baumstark (1872–1934) and Josephine Schmidt (1868–1932); he was adopted by the Memmingen innkeeper Clemens Janker. Janker finished his school career in 1914 at the Straubing State High School . He took part in the First World War and received the Iron Cross II. And I. Class and the Bavarian Military Merit Order . As a lieutenant in the reserve, he left the army disabled during the war .

At the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , he completed a medical degree, which he completed in 1921 with a state examination. In Munich in 1922 he became Dr. med. doctorates and approvals . He then worked as an assistant to the director of the Munich University Surgical Clinic, Erich von Redwitz , but had to end his surgical training due to a wash of eczema and was then assistant to the radiologist Henri Chaoul . With V. He moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1928 , where he headed the X-ray department of the surgical university clinic. In 1930 he completed his habilitation in Bonn on X-ray kinematographic studies. From 1933 he accepted a teaching position for medical radiation science in Bonn and became an associate professor there in 1935. Janker was authorized to perform radiation sterilization in the X-ray Department of the University Surgical Clinic. Finally, at his own request, Janker left the management of the X-ray department of the surgical university clinic and founded the private X-ray and light institute Janker in Bonn at the beginning of August 1937 without leaving the medical faculty of the university. He was approved as a health insurance doctor.

Period of National Socialism and World War II

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP at the beginning of May 1933 ( membership number 2.120.092). Furthermore, he belonged to the NS subsidiary organizations NS-Dozentbund , DAF , NSV , NS-Reichskriegerbund and Reichsluftschutzbund .

Soon after the start of the Second World War , he was appointed adjunct professor in November 1939. Submitted to the Military Medical Academy , he finally became a consulting radiologist at the Army Sanitary Inspector , where he achieved the rank of senior physician. In 1944 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the authorized representative for health care Karl Brandt .

After 1945

After his release from captivity in 1946, Janker was again approved as a lecturer. As a result of a court proceedings , he was denazified as exonerated in 1950 . In this context, Janker had stated the following: “During the Third Reich, in the same way as now and in the past, I was interested in nothing other than my scientific research and especially in the field of medical radiation.” His colleague Werner Wachsmuth attested Janker in December 1946 a negative attitude towards National Socialism . In the post-war years he devoted himself to the reconstruction of his X-ray institute, which was partially destroyed by the effects of the war in 1944, and to which a hospital ward was attached from 1948. Under his leadership, the facility became a major radiation clinic in Europe, which today operates as the MediClin Robert Janker Clinic . At the University of Bonn, Janker became a personal professor in 1952 and dean in 1956 . He was appointed full professor in 1962. Even after his retirement he still worked at the University of Bonn.

Janker was married and the couple had a daughter. His son-in-law Hans Hoefer-Janker became head of the Janker Clinic. Wachsmuth describes Janker in his autobiography as an "unusual, dynamic personality, full of energy and ideas, with whom one easily clashed, but could just as quickly reconcile."

Act

Janker's main research areas were fluorescent screen photography and X-ray cinematography. The electrical image intensification that he introduced and X-ray television have optimized radiological research diagnostics. He also developed, among other things, the Janker watch “to prevent overdosing during fluoroscopy” as an X-ray technical aid. He also became internationally known for his X-ray cinematographic films. Janker published a wide variety of specialist literature.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Six new cases of traumatic aneurysms , dissertation 1922
  • Radiological functional diagnostics using serial exposures and cinematography , W. Girardet, Mehrteiliges Werk, Wuppertal-Elberfeld 1954
  • Röntgenfilm , Mehrteiliges Werk, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin 1936 (belongs to: Supplements of the Reichsstelle for the educational film, F 128) - published several times
  • Full x-ray images of the person: Darst. D. normal skeleton, s. inherited u. acquired changes , JA Barth, Leipzig 1934
  • Fluorescent screen photography, x-ray screening. The photograph d. Fluorescent screen: a method d. Röntgenreihenuntersuchg , JA Barth, Leipzig 1938 (belongs to: Tuberculosis Library; No. 69)
  • The X-ray kinematography , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin 1938 (belongs to: series of publications of the Reichsstelle for educational films, no. 15)
  • Radiology and Public Health: The Fluorescent Screen Photography , Bonner Univ. Buchdr., Bonn 1941 (belongs to: War Lectures of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn am Rhein; H. 27)
  • X-ray technology , multi-part work, JA Barth, Leipzig 1945/47 (published several times)
  • The X-ray examination of the heart and the large vessels: Lectures of the 1st Bonn X-ray weekend course by R. Janker [u. a.] , W. Girardet, Wuppertal-Elberfeld 1955
  • Floor plan of the X-ray therapy , Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1958

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Horst Zoske: Janker, Robert. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 10 (1974), p. 336 [online version]; URL: http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118711733.html
  2. ↑ a b c d Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich". Munich 2006, p. 250
  3. ↑ Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich". Munich 2006, p. 522
  4. ↑ Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich". Munich 2006, p. 262
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 283
  6. ↑ Quoted from Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich”. Munich 2006, p. 263
  7. ↑ Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich". Munich 2006, p. 263
  8. ↑ Werner Wachsmuth: A life with the century , Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1985, p. 45
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgnc.de
  10. ↑ http://www.dgph.de/preise/kulturpreis
personal data
SURNAME Janker, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janker, Robert Berthold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1964
Place of death Bonn