Abstract
Although times were difficult in 1947/48 – with war damage, travel restrictions and
the East-West conflict – the German Society for Internal Medicine not only managed
to re-organise itself but also hosted its first scientific congress in that year.
The DGIM members Franz Volhard and Paul Martini, who rather disapproved of the Nazi
regime, played a decisive role in this process. However, a critical discussion of
the NS medical crimes, which occurred just a few years ago, remained the exception.
It is interesting to note that members who were persecuted by the NS regime were nevertheless
willing to attend a congress that obviously provided a forum for the protagonists
of the Nazi era.
This work presents – for the first time – an overview of the specific conditions of
the reconstitution of the German Society for Internal Medicine and enriches our knowledge
about the actions of the medical societies in the years between the fall of the Nazi
regime and the founding of the two German states.
In einer dreiteiligen Reihe widmet sich die DMW der Geschichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft
für Innere Medizin, einer der traditionsreichsten und größten Fachgesellschaften.
Zuletzt wurde die Anpassung der Gesellschaft an das NS-Regime und die oppositionelle
Haltung einzelner ihrer Mitglieder beleuchtet. Im zweiten Teil steht nun die Zeit
nach dem Ende der NS-Zeit im Vordergrund. Ein dritter Teil wird sich mit der Entwicklung
um 1968 befassen.
Schlüsselwörter
Medizingeschichte - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin - Nachkriegszeit - Paul
Martini - Franz Volhard
Key words
history of medicine - german society for internal medicine - postwar era - Paul Martini
- Franz Volhard
