Wolfgang Hinkelbein

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Wolfgang Hinkelbein (born February 15, 1948 in Nuremberg ; † August 8, 2015 ) was a German physician and radiation therapist.

Life

After graduating from high school in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Wolfgang Hinkelbein studied medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1967 . In 1974 he passed the state examination and in 1975 his license to practice medicine. From 1976 to 1978 he worked as a military doctor in the Bundeswehr . In 1977 he was in Freiburg with a thesis on the mechanism of inhibitory effect of cysteamine to Dr. med. PhD. From 1984 to 1995 he was a senior physician at the University Medical Center Freiburg , specializing in the fields of radiology and radiation therapy . In 1989 he qualified as a professor for radiation therapy.

In 1993 he was offered a professorship for radiation therapy at the Free University of Berlin and also became director of the Clinic for Radiation Oncology and Radiation Therapy at the Benjamin Franklin University Hospital (today: Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin CBF) in Berlin-Lichterfelde. In 1997 he was elected deputy medical director and in 2000 he was elected medical director and successor to Ernst-Otto Riecken at the Benjamin Franklin CBF campus and chairman of the hospital board. He was significantly involved in the realignment of the Berlin University Medicine and in particular the development of the Benjamin Franklin University Hospital into the Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin CBF. From 2003 until his retirement in 2012 he was Director of the Clinic for Radiation Oncology and Radiation Therapy as well as the long-term chairman of the Tumor Center.

Hinkelbein was a member of numerous professional societies, some of which he co-founded, including a full member of the Berlin Scientific Society . For many years he was President of the German Society for Radiation Oncology. V. (DEGRO).

He has published more than 150 scientific publications.

Wolfgang Hinkelbein died in 2015 at the age of 67. His grave is in the Dahlem Forest Cemetery in Berlin.

swell

  • Gerhard Lüdtke, Hans Strodel, Hans Jaeger: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, Volumes 1-3 , Saur 1996, Page 1374
  • Norbert Beleke, Karin Di Felice: Who is who ?: The German who's who , Arani 2006, page 559

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Hinkelbein's obituary notice , Der Tagesspiegel , August 16, 2015
  2. ↑ UKBF: Change in the Office of the Medical Director , Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw), accessed on September 14, 2000
  3. ^ Wolfgang Hinkelbein's obituary notice , Der Tagesspiegel , August 16, 2015
  4. ^ Entry by Wolfgang Hinkelbein , Berliner Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft , accessed on September 14, 2015
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 582.
personal data
SURNAME Hinkelbein, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and radiation therapist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2015