Wolfgang Kübler (doctor, 1934)

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Wolfgang Kübler (born October 20, 1934 in Reutlingen ; † April 29, 2019 ) was a German cardiologist and university professor. His main interest was the causes of insufficient blood flow in the heart muscle and research into the regulatory mechanisms of the heart when there is a lack of oxygen.

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Wolfgang Kübler came from a family of doctors; his father and grandfather were both surgeons. He obtained his general university entrance qualification in 1954 at the humanistic grammar school in Reutlingen , where, during the time of the French occupation , he learned French, Latin, ancient Greek and a little English. He then began his medical studies at the University of Tübingen . Since 1954 he was a member of the AV Virtembergia Tübingen student association. After completing his undergraduate studies, Kübler applied to several English universities to continue his studies. However, all of these required a certificate proving English proficiency, with the exception of the University of Oxford , which was sufficient for a two-page letter of recommendation from a German professor. This was written by his professor of biochemistry at the University of Tübingen and Nobel laureate in chemistry Adolf Butenandt . After returning to Germany, he studied for a semester at the University of Berlin and then returned to Tübingen for his state examination (1959) and his doctoral thesis. In 1960 he did his doctorate with Erich Letterer on a case of Gaucher's disease in an infant.

This was followed by Kübler Adolf Butenandt, who was now in Munich at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry , and joined the experimental medicine research group there. However, the experiments were negative and Kübler saw for himself that he did not want to do any basic research. He moved to the Institute for Experimental Surgery at the University of Cologne under the direction of Hans-Jürgen Bretschneider , where he was particularly active in the field of cardiac surgery. He later moved to the Medical Clinic I in Cologne for his clinical training under the direction of Rudolf Gross . In 1967 he completed his habilitation in experimental medicine and internal medicine in Cologne. Bretschneider, who had switched to the University of Göttingen as a professor of physiology , offered Kübler a position there, which he refused. While Kübler lectured in London at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the National Heart Hospital , he was offered an unpaid position at the National Heart Hospital with Peter Harris and Edgar Sowton, which he accepted; later he received a grant from the German Research Foundation . In 1970 Kübler switched to Franz Loogen's research assistant in the Department of Cardiology at the 1st Medical Clinic at the University of Düsseldorf, where he was appointed Scientific Councilor and Associate Professor in 1972.

In 1974 he was appointed to the chair of cardiology at the University of Heidelberg and was entrusted with the management of the cardiology, angiology and pulmonology department of the medical university clinic, which he held until April 2002. Kübler introduced cardiac catheter examinations in Heidelberg towards the end of the 1970s. There he was also active from 1985 to 2000 as spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 320 “Heart function and its regulation” and from 1982 to 1986 as chairman of the expert commission for cardiovascular diseases of the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology .

Kübler was a member of the German Society for Cardiology - Heart and Circulatory Research and its President in 1992/93, the German Society for Internal Medicine , the International Society for Heart Research and an honorary member of the Polskiego Towarzystwa Kardiologicznego (Polish Society for Cardiology), the Sociedad Peruana de Cardiología (Peruvian Society of Cardiology) and the Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia (Portuguese Society of Cardiology). He was also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians , Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology .

Until 2003 Kübler was editor of the Zeitschrift für Kardiologie and co-editor or editor of the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology , the Heart , the Klinische Wochenschrift , the Basic Research in Cardiology , the Circulation and the European Heart Journal .

In 1981 he received the Paul Morawitz Prize for his outstanding research achievements in the field of cardiology, and in 2001 he was awarded the Carl Ludwig Medal of Honor from the German Cardiac Society for his many years of outstanding scientific work in the field of cardiovascular research . On January 1, 2018, he was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ; The Order of Merit was presented on May 29, 2018 by State Minister for Science, Research and Art Theresia Bauer .

Wolfgang Kübler was born with the lawyer Ilse. Eberl (* 1936) married and had two children.

One of the students of Wolfgang Kübler is the Heidelberg cardiologist Hugo A. Katus .

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  1. ↑ Professor em. Dr. med. Wolfgang Kübler. Obituary notice. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 18, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Cardiac catheter laboratory. In: Heidelberg University Hospital . Retrieved April 3, 2019 (Section 6. Brief History of the Cardiac Catheter).
  3. ^ Paul Morawitz Prize. In: German Cardiac Society - Heart and Circulatory Research eV Accessed on April 3, 2019 .
  4. ^ Carl Ludwig Medal of Honor. In: German Cardiac Society - Heart and Circulatory Research eV Accessed on April 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Announcement of the awards from January 1, 2018. In: Bundespräsidialamt . January 1, 2018, accessed April 3, 2019 .

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SURNAME Kübler, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cardiologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Reutlingen
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2019