Gerhardt Katsch

German physician (1887-1961) · Germany · On the map · Doctors · Died at 73

Gerhardt Katsch was a German internist. Between 1928 and 1957 he served as Professor of Internal medicine at the University of Greifswald.

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This bust of the diabetologist Gerhardt Katsch (1887-1961) by Irmfried Garbe is a permanent feature of Lecture Hall 2 at the Greifswald University Clinic. Those unable or unwilling to access the lecture hall can find identical castings out of doors in the park surrounding the former "Schloss" at Karlsburg or in front of Katsch's former holiday home at Hochweiler (Sonthofen) in the mountains south of Kempten and west of Garmisch

Awards

Hervorragender Wissenschaftler des Volkes1957

National Prize of East Germany

About this person

It was on the initiative of Katsch that in 1930 a residential facility providing clinical and socio-medical care for Diabetic patients was established at Garz on the Island of Rügen. It was the first institution of its kind in Germany. Gerhardt Katsch is widely regarded -⁠ alongside Oskar Minkowski and Karl Stolte -⁠ as one of the three principal pioneers of modern diabetes management in Germany.

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Germany