Walter Brandstädter

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Walter Brandstädter (born October 21, 1931 in Lyck ) is a German transfusion specialist and medical professional politician .

Life

Walter Brandstädter was born as the son of an independent master craftsman in East Prussia . He attended school in his hometown until he escaped at the end of the Second World War . In his new home in Mecklenburg , he finished school in 1947 and began an apprenticeship as a craftsman. He passed his high school diploma in 1952 on a second educational path. Brandstädter then began studying medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . After two years he switched to the newly founded Medical Academy Magdeburg (MAM). He graduated in 1957 and his state examination in the same year as the first graduate of the new university with a dissertation from the Department of Gynecology at Karlheinz summer "About bleeding in Postklimakterium and at menopause," Dr. med. PhD . Walter Brandstädter initially worked in surgery , at the women's clinic and in internal medicine , before he devoted himself to his specialist training in "bacteriology and serology" under Harald Hudemann in 1959 . This sparked his interest in the new field of "transfusion medicine". He graduated as a specialist in 1964.

Brandstädter was already entrusted with setting up a blood bank and an institute for transfusion at MAM during his training. Walter Brandstädter took over the institute, which was outsourced from the university due to legal requirements, on January 1, 1963 as director. He was also significantly involved in the profiling of the new scientific field in the GDR , in particular in developing the content and requirements for specialist training in the field of "blood donation and transfusion". In 1969 he completed his habilitation under Hudemann with a paper on "Problems of Transfusion Bacteriology" , the first habilitation thesis in German transfusion medicine. From 1969 to 1971 Walter Brandstädter was chairman of the Society for Hematology and Transfusion Medicine of the GDR and from 1973 a member of the GDR Pharmacopoeia Commission. In 1972 Walter Brandstädter was appointed honorary lecturer for blood donation and transfusion and in 1977 honorary professor at the Magdeburg Medical Academy. Under the name "District Institute for Blood Donation and Transfusion" he headed the Magdeburg Institute until 1992, which was then wound up and reintegrated into the university, which later became the Medical Faculty of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg . Marcell Heim was appointed as his successor . For his part, Walter Brandstädter took over the medical management of Hämoplas GmbH in Magdeburg at the beginning of 1993 . He worked here until 2000.

In the years of political change , Brandstädter was actively involved in founding the Medical Association in Saxony-Anhalt . He was elected its first president in 1991. In 1995 he was vice president of the German Medical Association (BÄK) and the German Medical . Walter Brandstädter held the office of President of the Medical Association of Saxony-Anhalt and Vice President of the BÄK until 1999.

Fonts (selection)

Walter Brandstädter wrote over 150 publications and eight book chapters.

  • Walter Brandstädter: About bleeding in post-climacteric and menopause: With special consideration of the benign causes of bleeding and the results of abrasion. Dissertation , Medical Academy Magdeburg 1957
  • Walter Brandstädter: Hemotherapy. In: W. Remde: disorders of blood coagulation and hemostasis in urology. Thieme Verlag, Leipzig 1984
  • Walter Brandstädter: Hemotherapy. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1990

Honors

In 1975 Walter Brandstädter was made an honorary member by the Czechoslovak Society for Hematology . On June 29, 1999, he was elected honorary president of the Saxony-Anhalt Medical Association. At the 104th German Medical Congress in May 2001 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Brandstädter was honored with the Paracelsus Medal of the German Medical Association and was honorary president at the 109th German Medical Congress in Magdeburg.

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personal data
SURNAME Brandstädter, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German transfusion specialist and medical professional politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyck , German Empire