Affiliation with Scientific Institutions

The discovery and the successful research on the kallikrein-kinin system and related subjects are closely linked to the scientific institutions headed by Emil Karl Frey and Eugen Werle. This line of research has been pursued by the successor organization of E. Werle’s Chair of Clinical Chemistry, the Division of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry of the LMU Munich, which also managed the E. K. FREY – E. WERLE Foundation of the Henning L. Voigt Family until 2012.

 

Surgical Department of the LMU in the 1920ies

1918 – 1928

E. K. FREY (surgeon): Co-worker of F. Sauerbruch, Chair of the Surgical Department of the University of Munich (LMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-University)

1928 – 1931

E. WERLE: Ph. D. thesis at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the LMU Munich (Chair: Nobel laureate R. Willstätter) and co-worker there of H. Kraut (docent) and of

E.K. FREY at the Charité in Berlin (1927-1931)

1931 – 1943

E. K. FREY: Chair of the Surgical Department of the Medical Academy Düsseldorf

E. WERLE: Head of the Scientific Laboratory at the Surgical Department, LMU Munich

1943 – 1958

E. K. FREY: Chair of the Surgical Department of the LMU Munich

E. WERLE: Head of the Scientific Laboratory (Clinical Chemistry), LMU Munich

1966 – 1973

E. WERLE: 1st Chair of Clinical Chemistry in Germany at the LMU Munich and

Head of the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, LMU Munich

1973 – 2001

H. FRITZ: Head of the Division of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry at the Surgical Department of the LMU Munich

1988

Establishment of the E. K. FREY – E. WERLE Foundation of the Henning L. Voigt Family during the International Symposium on the Occasion of the 100th Birthday Anniversary of E.K. Frey: "The Kallikrein-Kinin System in Health and Disease" organized by L. Schweiberer (Department of Surgery at LMU), G. Dietze, and H. Fritz (see above) in Munich, Germany.

The first Governor of the Foundation (1988-2002) was Klaus Peter, Dean of the Medical Faculty of the LMU Munich. He was followed 2003 -2014 by Hans Fritz (see above) who headed the Board of Trustees before (1988-2002).

2001 – 2012

M. JOCHUM: Head of the Division of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry at the Surgical Department of the LMU Munich


2012 (March) - 2014 (June)

H. FRITZ, Prof. emer. Medical Faculty LMU


2014 (July) - present

C. WEBER: Head of the Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention (IPEK) and the Chair in Vascular Medicine at LMU Munich