Wilhelm Vaillant

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Wilhelm Karl Theodor Vaillant (born April 22, 1909 in Chemnitz , † January 28, 1993 in Munich ) was a German electrical engineer , entrepreneur , doctor and philanthropist .

Career and work

Vaillant's father was the manager of a state railroad power station, his mother a housewife. At the Dresden Annenschule he made his Abitur in the natural science branch of the Realgymnasium. From 1928 to 1934 he studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Dresden . It graduated with a degree in engineering . During his studies he worked in the student self-administration, where he was in charge of the department for cultural issues and organized visits to the theater and dance evenings. He financed his studies as a theater set pusher and as a waiter in a train station restaurant. After completing his studies, he went to the preparatory service for a higher civil engineering management career. His professional goal was to become a civil engineering technician for the Reichsbahn . He passed the train driver exam in May 1936. In autumn 1937, he became a Reichsbahn construction assessor. In the same year he married his wife Erika. During the Second World War , Vaillant was head of the lighting technology department of the electrotechnical testing office of the Reichsbahn in Munich. There he led a working group that developed techniques for blackout measures . 1942 he was at the Technical University of Karlsruhe in Rudolf Weigel (1899-1955) concerning the extent of darkening measures the field ultra red radiation to Dr.-Ing. PhD .

After the war, he and the lawyer Hanns Ritter set up a light bulb factory in Munich . In 1949 both founded RIVA-Copier-Werke GmbH, a film copier. The name RIVA is made up of the first letters of the last names of the two company founders. The company initially benefited from the cinema boom of the post-war period. Vaillant recognized the trend of emerging television in good time. He made several trips to the United States to learn about the latest developments in television technology. He quickly belonged to the pioneers of television technology in Germany. In Unterföhring near Munich, he built the RIVA television studios with the latest technology. He cooperated with the Bavarian radio and the ZDF . His studios also produced for the Free Television Society . His wife died in 1960. A year later, at the age of 52, he enrolled in the winter semester of 1961/62 to study medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1962, Vaillant was one of four candidates for the office of first ZDF director. Since Vaillant cultivated personal friendships with top politicians of the CSU , the SPD refused to vote. In 1962 he sold the RIVA television studios to Bayerischer Rundfunk for DM 18.5 million . He rented some of the television studios back in order to rent them to the ZDF regional studio in Bavaria. At the same time, he built new studios that made "assembly line productions" possible for him. In 1967 he sold these studios to ZDF for 27 million DM. His net income was 5 million DM. Now he had the time to devote himself seriously to studying medicine. In 1969 he finished his medical studies at the age of 60. He passed his state examination on his 60th birthday. In April 1970, he was at George Mason on the subject of his dissertation tests for the early detection of mammary carcinoma by thermography for Dr. med. PhD. In September of the same year he received his license to practice medicine . In 1972 he was appointed honorary professor for biomedical engineering. His field of work was diagnostic procedures for the early detection of breast cancer. He taught and researched at LMU until 1976. Vaillant was a pioneer in modern breast diagnostics. In 1973 he opened an institute for preventive medicine on Ismaninger Strasse in Munich . In the first year he invested almost 4 million DM in this institute, which is run as a GmbH. It was affiliated to the medical faculty of the Technical University of Munich as an “Institute at the Technical University”.

Vaillant, who had no descendants, founded the Wilhelm Vaillant Foundation, named after him, in 1981 to promote medical research as well as the establishment and expansion of preventive medical care facilities. He financed the Wilhelm Vaillant unit for early diagnosis of breast diseases at LMU's I. Women's Clinic . He donated this unit, which was then equipped with the most modern breast diagnostic equipment, to the Free State of Bavaria in 1985. On December 11, 1974, he was a guest on the talk show The Later the Evening .

The Wilhelm Vaillant Foundation awards the renowned Wilhelm Vaillant Prize every two years for the promotion of medical research.

Awards

Wilhelm Vaillant was a bearer of the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Great Federal Cross of Merit .

Publications (selection)

literature

  • Hans Dilley: List of papers: the papers of Prof. Dr. Ing.Dr. med. Wilhelm Vaillant (1909–1993) in the Bavarian State Library. Ana 578 Verlag Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 1997.
  • Memorial to Prof. Dr. Ing .; Dr. med. Wilhelm Vaillant In: Prospects in Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancer: Proceedings of the Joint International Symposium on Prospects in Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancer. 10-11 November 1993, Munich, p. 966.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Died. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Volume 90, Issue 11, March 19, 1993, pp. A-818.
  2. ↑ C. Baumgart: Open to challenges - Wilhelm Vaillant founded a foundation to promote cancer research. In: Insight Issue 1, 2002, pp. 10-11.
  3. ↑ a b Wilhelm Vaillant ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2007 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. Website of the Wilhelm Vaillant Foundation , accessed on April 25, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wilhelmvaillantstiftung.de
  4. ↑ a b Heck-Meck . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1962, pp. 33-34 ( online ).
  5. ^ Georg Roeber: Handbook of the film industry media areas. Verlag Documentation, 1973, ISBN 978-3-7940-3272-3 , p. 352 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ^ A b c d Hermann Boessenecker: Preventive medicine : cash registers rehearse the uprising. In: zeit.de . March 1, 1974, Retrieved April 25, 2015 .
  7. ^ Vaillant unit (inner city) LMU website, accessed on April 26, 2015
  8. ↑ "The daughters of colleagues come secretly" - Wilhelm Vaillant's fight against the doctors' bureaucracy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1974, pp. 170 ( online ).
  9. ↑ Philipp Kressirer: What makes people age? - Prize winner researches stem cell aging and genome stability. Hospital of the University of Munich, press release from November 23, 2011 from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on April 25, 2015.
  10. ^ Wilhelm Vaillant imdb.com

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personal data
SURNAME Vaillant, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vaillant, Wilhelm Karl Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, entrepreneur, medic and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1993
Place of death Munich