Johannes Gustav Dietrich

Background

Johannes was born on July 29, 1925, in Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

Education

After completing his Abitur during WW II Dietrich was conscripted as a soldier to take part in the war at the eastern front, where he was severely wounded. Being a war veteran he began to study philosophy, theology, natural sciences and medicine in Munich, Bamberg and Erlangen. He graduated in Medicine on April 1st, 1952 in Erlangen.

Career

Shortly after WW2 Dietrich worked in the hygiene institute of the University of Magdeburg. From the 1950ies to the early 1960ies he worked at the gynaecological department of the University of Würzburg. He changed to Bad Aibling to become head of the gynaecological and obstetrics department of the Bad Aibling municipal hospital, where he also established a spa department. As a lecturer of the University of Munich, he organised a series of courses in balneogynaecology.

Works

• article

  • Indikationen und Kontraindikationen für Moor 1981

• Book Section

  • Die Moortherapie

    (Together with J. Kleinschmidt)

    2003

  • Endokrinologische Veränderungen nach Moortherapie

    1995

  • Die Peloidbehandlung gynäkologischer Erkrankungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung thermophysikalischer Regelmechanismen

    1967

  • Die Beeinflussung gestörter endokriner Reglermechanismen durch die Moorbreiüberwärmungstherapie

    1987

• dissertation

  • Kritischer Beitrag zur Klinik und Therapie der übertragenen Schwangerschaft 1925

Membership

Advising scientific member of the Department of Gynaecology of the German Society of Balneology. Member of the governing council and scientific collaborator of the Department Gynaecology of the German Society of Balneology. German Society of Gynaecology. Bavarian Society of Gynaecology. Verband Deutscher Badeärzte. German Society for Military Medicine.

Connections

Johannes Dietrich was married to the pediatrician Irmingard Dietrich-Meggendorfer. The couple had three children.

Spouse:

Irmingard Dietrich-Meggendorfer

child:

Bernhard Friedrich Hermann Dietrich

child:

Barbara Elisabeth Dietrich

child:

Johannes Dietrich

father in law :

Friedrich Meggendorfer

References

• "Moorprofessor" mit reichem Wissen
  2010
• DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek