Werner Kindler

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Werner Kindler (born January 12, 1895 in Gersdorf , Kingdom of Saxony ; † October 8, 1976 in Heidelberg ) was a German ENT doctor and university professor.

Life

Kindler's parents were the ENT doctor Fritz Kindler and his wife Frieda, geb. Brewer. From 1913 he studied preclinical studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Philipps University of Marburg . On 15 July 1917 he was in the Corps Hasso Nassovia recipiert . Since he took part in the First World War from September 1914 to May 1919 , he was only able to attend the Physikum in April 1919 .

education

For clinical studies, he moved from Marburg to the new Medical Academy in Düsseldorf , where he passed the medical state examination in October 1920 after an interim semester. In 1920/21 he was a medical intern at the municipal hospitals, which became the university clinic of the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf. On January 27, 1921, he was from the University of Cologne to Dr. med. PhD. Approved as a doctor on May 1, 1921 , he found the first assistant doctor position at the Evangelical Hospital in Düsseldorf . From 1923 he completed his specialist training in ear, nose and throat medicine with Johannes Zange (1880–1969) at the LKH University Hospital Graz . He received his Austrian license to practice medicine in 1925 and qualified as a professor in 1928 in oto-rhino-laryngology.

Solingen

From 1930 to 1944 he was chief physician at the Solingen Municipal Hospital . In 1931 he married Ruth Fischer (1910–1944). The 1935 call of the Sun Yat-sen University (Guangdong) to the military medical academy, he refused. On December 30, 1936, he was re- qualified at the University of Cologne. In 1938 she appointed him a non-civil servant associate professor and in 1939 an associate professor . From August 1939 to May 1945 he served in the Wehrmacht . In Innsbruck he was a regular associate professor and director of the ENT clinic at the German Alpine University from April 1, 1944. On June 30, 1945 he was expelled from Austria as a Reich German. In the post-war period in Germany he was a resident ENT doctor in Solingen from 1946–1948 . He turned down the appointment of Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald , which he had received in 1948 .

Berlin

The Free University of Berlin appointed him on July 1, 1949 as full professor and chief physician at the City Hospital Westend . Widowed for five years, he married Fritzi Emich (1907–2002) in the same year. She was the daughter of Friedrich Emich , chemistry professor at TH Graz. He carried out the renovation and expansion of the clinic. A small outpatient clinic, an expanded surgery department and some laboratories were created. One student at the time was Hans-Jürgen Nickol , who was the boss in Altona from 1969–1988.

Heidelberg

On June 24, 1954, he followed the call of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg to its chair for ear, nose and throat medicine. He achieved a modernization of the old clinic building with a new lecture hall, new library, new laboratories and an expansion of the operating room. An outpatient clinic for people with voice and language disorders was also set up. The clinic ultimately had 130 beds. Kindler's publications mainly deal with clinical topics (liquor diagnostics, nosebleeds, early diagnosis of malignancies). 1958/59 he was dean of the medical faculty. On March 31, 1963 emeritus , he represented his chair from April 1, 1963 to July 31, 1965. In his retirement, he was for his lifetime achievements and the decades-long efforts to international contacts with the Great Federal Cross of Merit. He died childless at the age of 81. After the cremation , the urn was buried in Graz.

Honors

Works

  • with Brigitte Krebs and Georg Homm: The History of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Berlin . Thieme, Stuttgart 1956.
  • Rhino-laryngology . Vienna 1958.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1966
  • Ulrich Legler, Obituary, Ruperto Carola 29th vol., H. 60 (Dec. 1977), p. 113 f.
  • M. Portmann, Obituary, Revue de Laryngologie, Otologie, Rhinologie 98, 11-12 (1977), p. 638 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Vassel: Corpsgeschichte der Hasso-Nassovia zu Marburg 1839–1954 , Part II, No. 939. Marburg 1981, p. 305.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 99/939.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: The Surgical Treatment of Liver Cirrhosis (Talma's Operation) .
  4. ↑ The nosebleed. Old and new on the diagnosis, pathogenesis and treatment of essential and symptomatic nosebleeds . S. Karger, Berlin 1929.
  5. ↑ Academic training centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Germany
  6. ^ History of the German ENT clinics
  7. ↑ Hamburg professor catalog
  8. ↑ History of the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic in Heidelberg
  9. ^ Honorary members of the German ENT Society
personal data
SURNAME Kindler, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ENT doctor, university professor in Berlin and Heidelberg
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Gersdorf , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1976
Place of death Heidelberg