Wilhelm Rimpau (physician)

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Herbert Georg Wilhelm Rimpau (born January 28, 1943 in Halberstadt ) is a German doctor .

Life

Wilhelm Rimpau was named after the well-known seed breeder Wilhelm Rimpau , whose descendant he is. The parental estate Langenstein was confiscated and the Rimpau family expelled from the village in January 1946. She fled for three years to a village in southern Lower Saxony , where Wilhelm Rimpau attended elementary school. Then he stayed in a boarding school.

Rimpau studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1973 at the University of Heidelberg with the dissertation Investigation of the topography of disseminated intravascular coagulation with ACTH application . From 1973 to 1978 Rimpau worked at the Free University of Berlin . There he learned from " Dieter Janz (...) not only epileptology, but also the medical discussion, anthropology, care, self-reflection." Then Rimpau was senior physician at the Berlin hospital Am Urban until 1983 . In 1983 he was appointed head physician at the Herdecke community hospital and as a lecturer at the newly founded private University of Witten / Herdecke , where he took over the provisional management of the "Neurology" chair in 1991 and the provisional management of the "Didactics of clinical medicine" chair in 1994. Because of his services to the establishment of the medical faculty in Witten / Herdecke, Rimpau was appointed honorary professor there in 2000 .

Wilhelm Rimpau was chief physician in neurology at the Park Clinic in Berlin-Weißensee from 1997 to 2008 . The main focus of his clinical work remained in particular epileptology and psychosomatics. Until 2011, Rimpau worked at the Queen Elisabeth Herzberge Evangelical Hospital in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

Rimpau worked on the edition of Viktor von Weizsäcker's collected writings (1986–2005). In addition to his professional activity as a doctor, he researches, among other things, the history of seed breeding and his family and their possessions in Langenstein, etc., the local concentration camp and Jewish life in Halberstadt and the doctor Albrecht Daniel Thaer (1752–1828).

In 2017 he donated around 500 books to the Halberstadt City Library. His family's Langenstein estate archive is managed in the Saxony-Anhalt state archive .

Rimpau lives in Berlin .

Works (selection)

  • Neurology lessons at the Medical Faculty of the University of Witten-Herdecke 1983–1993. 1993 (Habilitation thesis, University of Witten / Herdecke, 1994).
  • Viktor von Weizsäcker : Why do you get sick? A reader. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008 (edited by Wilhelm Rimpau).
  • The doctor Albrecht Daniel Thaer (1752–1828). Man belongs to medicine as to agriculture. Funding Society Albrecht Daniel Thaer eV Möglin, Reichenow-Möglin 2016.
  • From 'rational agriculture' by Albrecht Thaers to plant breeding by Wilhelm Rimpaus (1810–1877). In: Meeting reports of the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin Volume 54 (2018)

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2009. Volume 3, KG Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-093219-5 , p. 3376.
  • Wilhelm Rimpau: Wilhelm Rimpau. In: Ideas. The journal of the German Epilepsy Association, No. 117 (2011), p. 32.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2009. Volume 3, KG Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-093219-5 , p. 3376.
  2. ^ A b Wilhelm Rimpau: Wilhelm Rimpau. In: Ideas. The journal of the German Epilepsy Association, No. 117 (2011), p.  32.
  3. ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt, 2000, p. A 2484.
  4. ^ Jewish life in Halberstadt and the difficult commemoration of the Zwieberge concentration camp
  5. ↑ Wilhelm Rimpau donates 500 books to Halberstadt "Halberstadt has a history that is essentially shaped by the events that are the subject of these books"
  6. ↑ Gutsarchiv Langenstein in the German Digital Library (DDB)
personal data
SURNAME Rimpau, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rimpau, Herbert Georg Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt