Wilhelm Schoeppe

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Wilhelm Schoeppe (born February 22, 1930 in Regensburg ; † July 30, 2009 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a university lecturer, internist and nephrologist in Frankfurt am Main. He was a founding member of the KfH Board of Trustees for Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation and the German Organ Transplantation Foundation .

Live and act

Schoeppe passed his Abitur in Regensburg and then studied medicine in Munich and Freiburg . In 1957 he received his doctorate, worked on the physiology of heart failure at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen and completed his specialist training as an internist, interrupted by research stays in Göttingen, in Freiburg and from 1960 in Frankfurt am Main with Professor Frey. In 1966 Schoeppe received his habilitation with a thesis on the flow conditions at the nephron, in 1972 he was professor at the University of Frankfurt and head of the department for nephrology at the Center for Internal Medicine. From 1975 to 1981 Schoeppe held the office of Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the university and in 1982 he became Managing Director of the Center for Internal Medicine. From 1986 to 1987 he was president of the Society for Nephrology and organized its annual congress in Frankfurt.

In 1969 Schoeppe was one of the founding members and then medical director of the non-profit foundation KfH ( Board of Trustees for Home Dialysis , later renamed the Board of Trustees for Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation ). With the establishment of over 100 dialysis centers and the training of doctors and nursing staff, this made an early and major contribution to the regular dialysis treatment and kidney transplantation of chronic kidney insufficiency patients in Germany. From 1989 onwards, Schoeppe devoted himself to this concern, particularly in the GDR, which was then still under-supplied with kidney replacement therapy, and then in the new federal states . Here he also took on the task of evaluating university lecturers in his field.

Schoeppe was a founding member of the German Organ Transplantation Foundation , initiated by the KfH, and was a member of its board from 1984 to 1998 . This organization promotes and organizes post-mortem organ donation in Germany.

Schoeppe had a humanistic education and was very interested in the fields of music and art history. Here he was also involved in many traditional Frankfurt associations.

On October 10, 2009, a large number of friends and companions of Wilhelm Schoeppe said goodbye to him in the Kaiserdom in Frankfurt.

Honors

  • Louis Pasteur Medal from the University of Strasbourg (1991)
  • Federal Cross of Merit, First Class

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards. In: internal medicine. Journal for all internal medicine in clinic and practice 19, 1992, issue 3, p. VII
personal data
SURNAME Schoeppe, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and internist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 2009
Place of death Frankfurt am Main