Rudolf Baumann (doctor)

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Rudolf Baumann (born  August 19, 1911 in Düsseldorf , †  June 19, 1988 in Berlin ) was a German doctor . From 1958 he headed the Institute for Cortico-Visceral Pathology and Therapy of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and from 1972 to 1978 its successor, the Central Institute for Cardiovascular Research .

Life

Grave in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery

Rudolf Baumann was born in Düsseldorf in 1911 and studied medicine in Bonn , Munich , Berlin and Rostock from 1930 to 1936 . In 1937 he was at the University of Rostock after defending his dissertation papillary growth and differentiation glandular to Dr. med. PhD . From 1936 to 1941 he completed his specialist training as an internist at the Neukölln Municipal Hospital . In 1940 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), and from 1941 to 1944 he worked as a hospital doctor. After the end of the Second World War , from 1945 he was chief physician of the city's East Hospital in Berlin. Three years later he became the second medical director and chief physician of the first internal clinic at the city's Hufeland hospital in Berlin-Buch, and in 1951 its medical director and chief physician of the first medical clinic. In the same year he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).

From 1956 he also headed the Institute for Cortico-Visceral Pathology and Therapy , which he founded at the Hufeland Hospital, and a year later he became professor of internal medicine. In 1958, the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin took over the sponsorship of the institute, which included various research laboratories for experimental investigations, a sleep laboratory and later its own clinic. With the establishment of the Central Institute for Cardiovascular Research in 1972 as the successor to the Academy Institutes for Cortico-Visceral Pathology and Therapy and for Circulatory Research, he became director of the newly created institute, which he headed until 1978. He died in Berlin in 1988 . His successor was Horst Heine , who had already acted as his deputy as director of the institute from 1977.

Scientific work

Rudolf Baumann's research interests were influenced by the views of the Soviet Nobel Prize laureate Ivan Petrovich Pavlov and later by the theories of the Austrian-Canadian physician Hans Selye . They focused in particular on the role of the cortical nervous system in the regulation of various body processes and in diseases such as diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus , high blood pressure as well as stress and psychosomatic disorders.

Awards

Rudolf Baumann received the GDR National Prize in 1965 and one year later he was accepted as a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, of which he chaired the medical class from 1975 to 1988. In addition, from 1974 he was a foreign member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR. His other awards included the title of " Honored Doctor of the People ", the Patriotic Order of Merit (1961 and 1972) and in 1988 the bar of honor from the Academy of Sciences of the GDR.

Works (selection)

  • Physiology of sleep and the clinic of sleep therapy. Berlin 1953
  • Coma diabeticum: its pathophysiology, pathogenesis, symptoms and therapy. Berlin 1959
  • Cortico-visceral Physiology, Pathology, and Therapy. Berlin 1966
  • Stress, neurosis and the cardiovascular system. Berlin 1977

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Rudolf Baumann's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

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personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1988
Place of death Berlin