Walter Hartenbach

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Walter Hartenbach (born July 12, 1914 in Wiesbaden ; † June 18, 2012 ) was a German surgeon and author of pseudoscientific books.

Career

After his habilitation in 1952 Hart Bach worked as a lecturer senior physician at the University Surgical Clinic in Munich . In 1959 he became an adjunct professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1964 he became chief physician of the surgical department of the Dr. Horst Schmidt clinics in Wiesbaden. He held this position for almost 20 years. His areas of work included Cushing's syndrome , burns and carcinomas .

Mildred Scheel was a PhD student from Hartenbach.

In addition to his work as a surgeon, Hartenbach also dealt with other areas of the medical environment. So in 1980 he began evaluating thousands of images of delinquents and analyzing the structures of the ears. In 1993 he published a very controversial, pseudoscientific book about his "methodical character analysis based on the ear structures". He claimed that the shape of the ear would reveal the most important traits of a person . In the same year, his also very controversial “Health Roadmap” came onto the market.

In 2002, the now 88-year-old Hartenbach published the book The Cholesterol Lie, which was also very controversial . The allegations made in it were subsequently criticized. In this book, Hartenbach put forward the thesis that there is no connection between smoking and cancer .

Works (selection)

  • Proposals to reform the medical part of the law to combat sexually transmitted diseases of February 18, 1927. Nolte, Düsseldorf 1940 (dissertation, University of Munich, 1940).
  • Development and practical importance of penicillins. Müller & Steinicke, Munich 1949.
  • Interventions on the cardia. Difficulties and dangers and their elimination. With a foreword by Rudolf Zenker . Enke, Stuttgart 1963.
  • with Friedrich Wilhelm Ahnefeld : Combustion Primer. With a foreword by Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp . Thieme, Stuttgart 1967.
  • What ears reveal. Talent, opportunities, genius. Herbig, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7766-1720-9 .
  • Health roadmap. No cancer from smoking. No hardening of the arteries from cholesterol. Hormones control all vital functions. Depression manageable. Osteoporosis curable. Herbig, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-776-61809-4
  • Cholesterol - the most valuable building block in life. Frieling & Huffmann, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-828-00990-5 .
  • The cholesterol lie. The fairy tale of bad cholesterol. Herbig, Munich 2002; 31st edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-7766-2277-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. German Society for Surgery - Mitteilungen 4/12, p. 341.
  2. August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? Volume 22, 1983, p. 451. ISBN 3-795-02003-4 [1]
  3. ^ A. Kreuzinger, S. Kastberger: What ears betray.
  4. W. Hartenbach: The Cushing syndrome and its treatment. In: Langenbeck's archive for clinical surgery. Volume 296, 1960, pp. 291-306, PMID 13711902 .
  5. ^ W. Hartenbach: Damage and dangers of cortisone therapy. In: Langenbeck's archive for clinical surgery. Volume 298, 1961, pp. 125-130, PMID 14036067 .
  6. W. Hartenbach: Hormone, protein and electrolyte balance in the most severe burns. In: Langenbeck's archive for clinical surgery. Volume 297, 1961, pp. 490-503, PMID 13904961 .
  7. S. Geyer, A. Grabner: The veterinary assistant. Schlueter 1987, ISBN 3-877-06215-6 , p. 5
  8. L. Laux: Personality Psychology. W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3-170-19836-X , pp. 56-58. limited preview in Google Book search
  9. Instructive rags. In: Der Spiegel . Issue 20, 1992, p. 256.
  10. A. Weizel : Statement by Prof. Weizel on the book "The Cholesterol Lie" by Prof. Hartenbach. ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. August 8, 2004, accessed December 9, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lipid-liga.de
  11. hil: Lübeck researchers refute the accusation of the so-called cholesterol lie. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. From August 20, 2008
  12. P. Linsel-Nitschke, A. Götz u. a .: Lifelong reduction of LDL-cholesterol related to a common variant in the LDL-receptor gene decreases the risk of coronary artery disease - a Mendelian randomization study. In: PloS one. Volume 3, number 8, 2008, p. E2986, ISSN  1932-6203 . doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0002986 . PMID 18714375 . PMC 2500189 (free full text). ( Open access )
  13. ^ A b H. Gohlke: The cholesterol lie. (PDF; 75 kB) pp. 18–21
  14. W. Hartenbach: The cholesterol lie. The fairy tale of bad cholesterol. 26th edition Herbig, Munich 2008, p. 104.
  15. G. Sensenschmidt: Professor Hartenbach's fairy tale hour about smoking - a book review. ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 736 kB) In: Fresh wind. 3 (2005), p. 22 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nichtkunden.net