Personal data, Education

Born in Gera/ Thüringen, Germany, November 27, 1910
Children: Frank W. and Gilbert, born 1936 and 1942

Elementary School, Gera, 1915 – 1919
Grammar School (humanistic gymnasium), Gera, 1919 – 1929
Diploma of maturity (Abitur), 1929

University

Medical School, University of Leipzig, 1929 – 1935
Medical School, University of Hamburg, 1930;

Internship, Doctorate (MD), Approbation

Internship: Medical Policlinic, University of Leipzig (Director: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Schoen), 1935; Department of Pathology, University of Leipzig (Director: Prof. Dr. Werner Hueck), 1935
MD: University of Leipzig, 1935
Thesis: „Über Schwankungen der Thrombozytenzahlen bei verschiedenen Eingriffen“ (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Rudolf
Jürgens, Prof. Dr. Rudolf Schoen, Univ.-Poliklinik Leipzig)
Approbation: Leipzig 1936

Haematological studies

Medical Clinic, Kantonspital, University of Zürich, Switzerland (Prof. Dr. Karl Rohr, bone marrow cytology), 1937; Clinica Medica Generale, University of Pavia, Italy (Prof. Dr. Emilio Storti, experimental leukaemias, chicken leukaemia virus), 1938

Scientific assistant

Department of Pathology, University of Leipzig, 1935 – 1936;
Medical Policlinic, University of Leipzig, 1936 – 1939;
Medical Clinic and Policlinic, University of Göttingen (Director: Prof. Dr. med. Rudolf Schoen); 1939 – 1943, 1945 – 1952

Habilitation, Venia legendi (Privatdozent), Professor

Habilitation, Venia legendi: University of Göttingen, 1941
Theme: „Morphologisch-klinische Beobachtungen bei Erkrankungen des lymphatischen Gewebes“
Professor: Göttingen 1947

Military service world war II

Eastern front, Sep. 1943 – June 1945
Military service for highschool teachers and physicians was uncommon at that time. The reason having been drafted could be Tischendorf”s pertinacious refusal to join the NSDAP.

Senior physician, Medical diploma

Oberarzt, geschäftsführender Oberarzt: Medical Clinic and Policlinic, University of Göttingen, 1947—1952
Medical diploma: Internist, Göttingen, 1940

Head, Physician in Chief

Medical Clinic, Nordstadtkrankenhaus Hannover, Germany (450 internal beds) 1952—1968

Congress-Presidency

52nd Congress, Nordwestdeutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin (Northwest German Society of Internal Medicine), Hannover, 1959
8th Congress, Deutsche Hämatologische Gesellschaft (German Haematological Society), Wiesbaden, Germany, 1962

Death

Hannover, 18.05.1968

Obituaries, Laudations

Prof. Dr. Fritz Heckner: „In memoriam Walter Tischendorf“, Blut (Annals of Hematology), 17: 351—52, 1968
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Schoen: „Professor Walter Tischendorf“, Dtsch. Med. Wschr. 93: 1736-1937, 1968
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Harald Stein: „In memoriam Professor Walter Tischendorf 1910—1968“, Med. Welt 61: 3474, 2010
Prof. Dr. Mathias Freund: „Zum 100. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Walter Tischendorf“, Dtsch. Gesellschaft für Hämatologie und Onkologie, Mitglieder-Rundschreiben 4, 2010