Image gallery of the Faculty of Medicine Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf Red Cross sisters before their deployment at the front, ca. 1914.

Food distribution in the military hospital, ca. 1915

Student nurses, teaching room in dormitory II

Graduating class of student nurses, 1930

Prof. Dr. Arthur Schlossmann, staff members of his clinic. Under his leadership, paediatrics developed into the first scientific and clinical focus. His fight against infant mortality earned him the title "saviour of children". He died in 1932.

Certificate of dismissal for Prof. Dr Albert Eckstein

Certificate on Prof. Dr. Albert Eckstein's dismissal

Images of the destruction of war, hospital ward II, 1942

The glass operating theatre of the new Surgical Clinic (built in 1958) made it possible for students, for example, to observe the surgical procedure.

Picture of the pre-clinical classes 1961/62

Rescue helicopter in front of the new Surgical Clinic, ca. 1962

Surface hypothermia - patient in the ice tub

Surface hypothermia represents the beginning of open heart surgery in Germany. It was introduced by the former director of the Department of Anaesthesiology, Prof. Dr. Martin Zindler.

Prof. Dr. Ernst Derra during a heart operation with a heart-lung machine, which was introduced in 1959.

The sign "Medizinische Akademie" is pasted over with "Universität Düsseldorf".

The sign "Medizinische Akademie" is provisionally pasted over with "Universität Düsseldorf".

Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 30) in Cardiology

First Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 30, 1968 - 1985 ) in cardiology, one of the first CRCs ever.

Establishment of the Medical-Neurological-Radiological Clinic - today commonly known as the MNR Clinic - it was opened in 1985 with 406 beds.

Senate meeting in 1988 with the vote to rename the University of Düsseldorf to Heinrich Heine University; the former Rector Prof. Dr. Gert Kaiser is standing at the blackboard.