Wolfgang Menger
Wolfgang Menger (born July 19, 1919 in Steglitz ; † September 11, 2006 in Norderney ) was a doctor, author, medical director of the Seehospiz children's hospital and the asthma and allergy center "Insel-Internat Kinderheil" on the East Frisian island of Norderney. He lived and worked mostly there.
Life
After studying medicine in Berlin , Gdansk , Vienna and the state examination in Berlin in 1944, he received his doctorate in Gdansk in 1944. Menger then worked as an assistant doctor in Bremen and at the University Children's Clinic in Mainz.
He received his license to practice medicine in Bremen in 1946. Until his recognition as a specialist in paediatrics in 1951, he worked as an assistant doctor in the children's clinic in Bremen. Menger then worked as a research assistant at the University Children's Hospital in Mainz until 1957 . In the same year, on May 1st, he took up the position of chief physician at the Seehospiz children's hospital on Norderney. After his habilitation (“Frequency and type of meteorotropic phenomena in childhood”) in 1957, he taught as a private lecturer and from 1964 as a professor at the Johann Gutenberg University in Mainz. His dissertation dealt with the importance of weather on the human organism. Since then Menger has been systematically researching the effects of weather and climate on the healthy and the sick at the Balneological Institute of the University of Munich and the German Baths Association. Until October 1, 1983 he was chief physician and medical director of the Seehospiz children's hospital "Kaiserin Friedrich", founded in 1882 by Friedrich Wilhelm Beneke , in the North Sea spa in Norderney, and doctor of the rehabilitation facility for asthma and allergic boys and girls in the island boarding school "Kinderheil". During this time he was the chairman of the research community for marine medicine founded on Norderney .
His areas of work were climate therapy , physical therapy , asthma and neurodermatitis .
Menger was a member of the German Baths Association, board member and honorary member of the German Society for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and later honorary chairman of the Research Foundation for Marine Medicine.
On September 19, 2006 he was buried in the Norderneyer Inselfriedhof. Shortly beforehand, in the summer of 2006, the sculptor Johann Brunner from Surberg in Upper Bavaria was able to make a clay portrait of Prof. Menger. The bronze bust was erected in 2007 in honor of Menger in the foyer of the thalassotherapy center bade: haus Norderney . The founder was the radiologist Bernd Steinhardt from Montabaur , who studied with Menger and was able to persuade him to take part in the portrait sessions. The inscription on the stele reads Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Menger - 1919-2006 .
Awards / honors
- Crown cross in gold of the Diakonisches Werk (1979)
- Winner of the Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1983)
- Medal of Honor of the City of Norderney (2006)
Publications (selection)
- Wolfgang Menger: Our child is allergic. A comprehensive guide for parents with allergic children . Ed .: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Allergiekrankes Kind. Ravensburger Buchverlag, Otto Maier GmbH, 1989, ISBN 3-473-42715-2 .
- Wolfgang Menger: Climate therapy on the North and Baltic Seas . Gustav Fischer, Jena 1997, ISBN 3-437-31120-4 .
Individual references and references
- ↑ Healing powers of nature . From the work of two doctors working on Norderney. In: Norderney spa courier . Self-published, Norderney 1964, p. 6 .
- ↑ Dedicated his life to marine medicine . In: Norderney Christmas spa courier . Self-published, Norderney 1979, p. 12-16 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menger, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Steglitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 2006 |
| Place of death | Norderney |