Walter Gahlen

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Walter Gahlen , also Walther Gahlen (* July 21, 1908 in Düsseldorf ; † March 26, 1994 ibid) was a German specialist in dermatology and full professor at the University Hospital Aachen .

Live and act

After graduating from high school, Gahlen studied medicine at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf and graduated in 1937 with a doctorate . In the same year he joined the NSDAP and later the SA . Gahlen became a senior physician at the Düsseldorf Medical Academy under Hans Theodor Schreus and completed his habilitation there in 1944. During this time, he repeatedly resisted the attempts of his colleague there, Herta Oberheuser , who wanted to recruit him several times for the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

After the Second World War and surviving the denazification process , Gahlen continued to work in Düsseldorf and was appointed adjunct professor at the academy in 1951. With effect from August 1, 1962, he accepted a call to the Aachen City Hospital, where he succeeded Aloys Greither as chief physician at the dermatology clinic. After the transfer of the municipal hospitals to the new Aachen University Clinic, Gahlen was appointed full professor of dermatology and venereology as well as medical director of the new skin clinic on May 14, 1966 . After his retirement on October 1, 1976, Gahlen spent the evening of his life in Düsseldorf, where he died on March 26, 1994.

Gahlen's scientific focus was on research in the field of occupational diseases and skin tuberculosis as well as radiation therapy for dermatoses and the fight against sexually transmitted diseases.

Publications (selection)

  • The limits of the normal in the decline in serological reactions after syphilis treatment. In: dermatologist. Volume 4, 1953, pp. 380-384.

literature

  • Richard Kühl: Leading Aachen clinic physicians and their role in the Third Reich , study by the Aachen Competence Center for the History of Science, Volume 11, Ed .: Dominik Groß, Diss. RWTH Aachen 2010, p. 162 and others; ISBN 978-3-86219-014-0 pdf

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief vita on the occasion of the 65th birthday in Deutsches Ärzteblatt, issue 31 of August 2, 1973
personal data
SURNAME Gahlen, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gahlen, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist in dermatology and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1994
Place of death Dusseldorf