Siegfried Treichel

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Siegfried Rüdiger Treichel (born March 23, 1932 in Groß-Tychow / Pomerania ) is a German specialist in neurology , psychiatry and psychotherapy who has worked as a professional politician at regional, German and European level in various associations and corporations for the interests of doctors since 1966 and patient has been active.

Life and medical activity

Siegfried Treichel grew up in Naugard (today: Nowogard) in Pomerania until he was 12 and attended the grammar school in Gollnow (today: Goleniów) . In March 1945 the family fled near Stade due to the war . In 1951 he passed the Abitur there at the Athenaeum . From 1951 to 1956 he studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn , Freiburg , Düsseldorf , Munich , Berlin and Heidelberg .

In 1954 and 1955 he spent two internships abroad at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm . He completed his studies in 1956 with the state examination at the University of Heidelberg . This was followed in 1957 by a doctorate in medicine at the University of Bonn and from 1957-1958 as an assistant doctor at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf .

In 1958 Treichel moved to the USA , where he first passed the American medical state examination and then began training as a specialist in psychiatry , neurology and depth psychological psychotherapy . In 1960 he was admitted to further scientific training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester , but decided against an academic career and switched to the Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg , which was founded in 1773 as the first hospital in the USA to exclusively treat the mentally ill . In 1963 Treichel was appointed chief physician there.

In 1965 he returned to Germany, initially to Hamburg again , to the neurological department of the university hospital , then he was briefly medical director at the private psychiatric clinic Dr. Heines in Bremen . At that time, the Westphalia-Lippe Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians was urgently looking for an outpatient neurologist for the city and district of Recklinghausen in the northern Ruhr area. Structurally, there was a shortage of doctors and outpatients and there was no psychiatrist or neurologist at the hospitals. However, the demand in the region with over 600,000 inhabitants was very high. In 1966, Treichel decided to set up his own doctor's practice there and to take over the advisory care of the district's hospitals. Among other things, his merit is that other neurologists subsequently also settled in the region.

Treichel was interested in new forms of outpatient medical care early on and was one of the first doctors in Germany to plan the construction of a new, barrier-free medical center so that patients could be treated by various outpatient specialists under one roof. The doctors sometimes also worked together in the new form of cooperation in the practice community. The medical center was opened in 1980, pioneering a development that is now considered a model for success. Treichel practiced there himself in a group practice as a neurologist and psychiatrist until his medical retirement in 1998 and was a regular medical expert on behalf of authorities, companies and courts. He is married to the neurologist Jutta Treichel and has three sons.

Professional and social policy

Treichel has been a member of the Hartmannbund , the Association of Doctors in Germany, since 1968 and was a state delegate for many years. In 1966 he joined the Association of German Nerve Doctors (BVDN) eV. His commitment was primarily to the state association Westphalia-Lippe, which led the Bielefeld psychiatrist Wolf Weinland in 1968 politically and. a. campaigned against a controversial draft law and against "state interference in civil rights" and was therefore very present in the media across Germany. Weinland became federal chairman, so that Treichel took over the state chairmanship in 1972, which he then held until 1989. In order to improve the exchange between clinics and practice doctors, he also co-opted chief physicians into the professional association, u. a. Rainer Tölle , the head of the Psychiatric University Clinic in Münster and Matthias Gottschaldt , the founder of the Oberbergkliniken . With them he organized annual training events, e.g. B. in Bad Salzuflen and on Borkum . From 1975 he was involved in the negotiations for the reform of the federal German remuneration system for statutory health insurance physicians (EBM) , which came into force in 1977 by federal law and is still valid today in its basic structure.

In 1976 Treichel was elected to the board of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians Westphalia-Lippe (KVWL). The corporation under public law , with its seat and administration in Dortmund , is responsible on behalf of the state for ensuring, distributing fees and quality assurance of the entire medical care by the approximately 15,000 outpatient doctors in Westphalia. As a board member, Treichel was responsible for various areas of responsibility over the years, including a. the contract negotiations with the health insurances as well as the testing and medical training. From 1976 to 1992 Treichel was also a board member of the Academy for Medical Training of the Medical Association Westphalia-Lippe in Münster . During this time he shaped the development of the medical association's advanced training courses and was also a specialist examiner until his retirement. As a member of the board, together with the professor Rainer Tölle and his senior physician Gerhard Buchkremer, he introduced innovative changes and for the first time opened up the possibility for statutory health insurance physicians to receive further training in psychotherapy while working . This has significantly increased the number of resident psychotherapists for patient care in the long term.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Treichel was temporarily responsible for initiating the (re) establishment of statutory health insurance structures in the future new federal state of Brandenburg .

In 1992, after 16 years, he resigned from the board of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and the Academy for Medical Training. After his retirement he acted as election supervisor appointed by the board until 2015 and was responsible for the proper preparation and implementation of the elections of the corporation.

European commitment

Since his training in the USA, it has been of great importance to Treichel to promote the international exchange of neurologists. He organized several study trips for members of the professional association to other countries. In 1988, under the sign of glasnost , he and a Russian colleague initiated a two-week study trip of 20 German neurologists and psychiatrists to leading, non-public neurological institutions in the Soviet Union , after consultation and approval by the Ministry of Health of the USSR . a. the Center for Mental Health in Moscow and the Bechterew Institute in Saint Petersburg (1988: Leningrad ). This was very unusual at the time of the Iron Curtain , the trip and the subsequent reporting were sometimes received critically.

From 1994 he was the representative of the German psychiatrists in the European Union of Medical Specialists based in Brussels , together with the later professor Fritz Hohagen . He was a member of the European Board of Psychiatry until 2001. Here he was particularly involved in the development of common European treatment standards and guidelines for the harmonization of psychiatric training in European countries.

Volunteering

Treichel has been the honorary ombudsman of the Westphalia-Lippe Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians since 1994 .

Until 2005 he was an honorary judge at the professional court for health professions of the administrative court of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster .

Trivia

The actor, comedian and entertainer Hape Kerkeling describes in his 2014 bestselling autobiography Der Junge muss auf die Fresh Air Treichel under his real name as an understanding neurologist who diagnosed a migraine for the first time in 1972 in the pupil who suffered from frequent headaches and recommends “school sometimes not to be taken that seriously ”.

Awards

Siegfried Treichel has received numerous awards for his services to the design of outpatient medical care and the further training of doctors:

Other:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt: [1] Medical centers are a successful model , published on November 30, 2016, accessed on May 10, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c Westfälisches Ärzteblatt: Siegfried Treichel celebrates his 85th birthday. [2] In: Edition 03/2017, p. 31
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel: Health Control: Down through. [3] In: Edition 51/1968, published December 16, 1968, accessed May 10, 2020, pp. 46-47
  4. ^ Westfälisches Ärzteblatt: Neurology and Psychiatry - Perestroika and Glasnost. In: Volume 43 (1), January 1989, pp. 44-46
  5. ^ Fritz Hohagen, Siegfried Treichel, Mathias Berger: Psychiatric training in Germany . In: European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, Vol. 247, No. 1, 12.1997: S.15-S17, DOI: 10.1007 / BF02913547
  6. ^ Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians Westphalia-Lippe: Problem solver, mediator and confessor. Siegfried Treichel has been the KVWL's honorary ombudsman for more than 20 years. [4] In: KVWL Kompakt 2/2015, pp.10-11, accessed on May 10, 2020
  7. ↑ Website of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians Westphalia-Lippe [5] , accessed on May 10, 2020
  8. ↑ Hape Kerkeling: The boy has to get some fresh air . Piper, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-492-05700-4 . P. 175
  9. ^ Website of the Federal Association of German Nerve Doctors - Landesverband Westfalen [6]
  10. ^ Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Honored. [7] In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt 96, Issue 3, January 22, 1999, A-146 (58), accessed on: May 10, 2020.

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SURNAME Treichel, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Treichel, Siegfried Rüdiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist and professional politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Tychow