Rudolf Jürgens (medical doctor)

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Rudolf Juergens Memorial Medal

Rudolf Jürgens (born December 18, 1898 near Berlin ; † February 8, 1961 there ) was a German doctor , hematologist and scout .

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Rudolf Jürgens was born near Berlin on the estate of his father, a pathologist and close collaborator of Rudolf Virchow . Jürgens was baptized Protestant, with Rudolf Virchow taking over the sponsorship . After finishing school at the humanistic Friedrichwerder Gymnasium , he was drafted as an infantryman in World War I. After the end of the war, Jürgens studied medicine in Berlin and then went to the Leipzig Medical Clinic as an assistant to Paul Morawitz . His research focus was on blood clotting disorders. The title of his habilitation thesis, submitted in 1932, is: "Contribution to the pathology and clinic of bleeding readiness". During a stay on the Aaland Islands in 1933, in collaboration with Erik Adolf von Willebrand, he succeeded in delineating a previously unknown hereditary bleeding disease, which was later named Willebrand-Jürgens syndrome after its discoverer . In 1935, Jürgens became head of the III. Medical University Clinic of Berlin appointed. After only five years, he left Berlin in 1938 to take over the management of the medical laboratories at Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. AG in Basel, Switzerland . In 1956 he became director of Hoffmann-La Roche AG in Grenzach-Wyhlen, the German branch of the Swiss parent company. Rudolf Jürgens died on February 8, 1961 in Berlin.

Hamburg symposium on blood coagulation

In 1954, Rudolf Juergens founded the Hamburg Symposium on Blood Coagulation . After his death, the chairperson of the Hamburg Symposium on Blood Coagulation awarded him the Rudolf Jürgens Commemorative Medal for outstanding contributions to blood coagulation research.

scout

In 1922, Jürgens was a founding member of the New German Scout Association , which in 1932 merged with other scout associations to form the Reichsschaft Deutscher Scouts . Jürgens became the first federal leader of the Reichsschaft. After the Reichsschaft refused to cooperate with the Hitler Youth , the Reichsschaft was banned on May 26, 1934.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1954, Col. 1073
  2. ^ Ludwig Zuckschwerdt: Welcome address and obituary for Rudolf Juergens , Coagulopathies - IV. Hamburg Symposium on Blood Coagulation June 3, 1961, Editiones Roche, Stattauer-Verlag, Stuttgart 1962, p. 13, DNB 458772259
  3. ↑ Rudolf Jürgens: Contribution to the pathology and clinic of readiness to bleed , Springer, 1933, DNB 134126270
  4. ↑ Ludwig Zuckschwerdt: Foreword , vasogenic bleeding tendencies - X. Hamburg Symposium on Blood Coagulation, June 23 and 24, 1967, Editiones Roche, Stattauer-Verlag, Stuttgart 1968, p. 5 ( reference )
personal data
SURNAME Juergens, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hematologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH near Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1961
Place of death near Berlin