[The Dermatology department of the Munich-Schabing Municipal Hospital in changing times].
In July 1914 the Department of Dermatology of the newly built municipal hospital of Munich started to work. The department head, Professor Wilhelm Heuck, established social organizations that were ahead of his time. Nevertheless, in 1931 he had to fight the threatened closure of this department that came about as a result of the increasing amount of outpatient treatment in private practice. Two dermatologists of his school became famous: Vonkennel and Kimmig. His successor, Professor August Poehlmann, managed the difficult circumstances during World War II. The hospital had been confiscated by the occupying forces and the dermatological patients were spread over the city in different hospitals. In 1950 Poehlmann was successful in transferring all patients into the Biederstein hospital. In 1955 Curt Böhm moved the dermatological department back to the hospital of Schwabing. The present head, Professor Hans-Jürgen Bandmann, has nicely refined the triad of patient treatment, teaching and research.
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Die Dermatologische Abteilung des Städtischen Krankenhauses München-Schwabing im Wandel der Zeiten.