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in the saddle which you can thanks to film maker Lars Lehmann who with his work laid the foundation for the technique never lived to see the impact of his research his work has an enduring legacy and changed the face of cardiology forever Later this summer – on 16 September - the world of medicine will be marking the 40th anniversary of the first coronary angioplasty The technique of angiography was first developed in 1927 by the Portuguese physician Egas Moniz at the University of Lisbon for cerebral angiography while American interventional radiologist Charles Dotter pioneered angioplasty and the catheter-delivered stent which were first used to dilate peripheral arteries by inserting sequential catheters with increasing diameters through the narrowing artery Dr Mason Sones performed the first selective coronary angiogram and a few years later Melvin Judkins introduced catheters shaped to reach the coronary arteries to perform selective coronary angiography It was this work that Grüntzig built on to perform the first successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) – or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) – on a human on 16 September 1977 at University Hospital Grüntzig studied medicine at Heidelberg University He rotated through a series of internships in Mannheim before moving to the department of Angiology at the University Hospital of Zurich in 1969 His initial procedure used an expandable balloon based on balloons for use in peripheral arteries created on a kitchen table in his apartment This was used on 38-year-old severe angina patient Adolph Bachman – the same age as Grüntzig He successfully dilated a stenosed short non-branching section of the Left Anterior Descending (LAD) artery and presented the results of the procedure at the American Heart Association meeting two months later to widespread acknowledgement Grüntzig performed coronary angioplasties on further patients in Zurich and taught the technique to other cardiologists such as abrupt vessel closure after balloon angioplasty and restenosis but from the initial percutaneous balloon angioplasty; intracoronary stents were deployed in the mid-1980s various incremental improvements in balloon and stent technology arrived along with newer devices and medicine regimens resulting in the drug eluting stent designed to help reduce in-stent restenosis These also reduced the risk of stent thrombosis One man who recalls those early procedures is Bernhard Meier former Chairman and Professor of Cardiology and current Senior Consultant at the Swiss Cardiovascular Centre at Bern University Hospital He worked with Grüntzig during the early development of the technique and also ‘found’ the first patient to undergo the procedure Meier has been involved in coronary angioplasty as a specialist in interventional cardiology since the first case Grüntzig performed in Zurich 1977 ‘I watched him doing peripheral angioplasty and helped him accumulate the respective data I also suffered with him through more than a year of the desperate search for a patient suitable to become the first-in-man PCI recipient,’ Meier recalled ‘Serendipity led me to find the first patient and assist Dr Grüntzig Finding this patient when he was away and presenting the case to him upon his return was certainly one of my career highlights ‘I’ve been able to take care of this patient up to now 40 years after his historical intervention without ever needing coronary artery bypass surgery.’ Grüntzig left Switzerland for the USA Meier followed and spent three years with him in Atlanta undergoing his cardiology training at Emory University Meier further developed the technique as head of invasive cardiology at University Hospital he became chairman of the Cardiology Department at Bern University Hospital turning it into the most active interventional cardiology centre in Switzerland Meier recalls Grüntzig (11 years his senior) as a role model: ‘He was good looking and full of great ideas with the necessary energy to pursue them even against a headwind from sceptics and envious – and sometime mischievous – colleagues and superiors ‘He also liked and lived simplicity as the basis of successful medicine The balloon catheter to treat coronary artery stenosis is about as simple and as efficacious as it gets consultant cardiologist at Leicester’s Hospitals and Honorary Professor of Interventional Cardiology at the University of Leicester reflects on Andreas Grüntzig’s legacy: ‘Whilst not part of the original cohort who visited Grüntzig at the very beginning my recollections of the procedure go back to an impressionable and formative age for me as a junior doctor at the National Heart Hospital in 1980 when Tony Rickards undertook what I believe to be the first UK balloon angioplasty patient There was clearly a lot of excitement and undoubtedly something going on so I decided I’d make a rare trip to the catheter laboratory It was not possible…there were crowds of people.’ Inspired Professor Gershlick became closely linked to the evolution of interventional cardiology through the ’90s – the decade of invention – and later was the first UK cardiologist to implant a drug eluting stent (DES) and first to implant a bio-absorbable stent.  Awarded the inaugural British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS) Lifetime Achievement Career Award in January recognising his ‘outstanding contribution to the speciality of coronary intervention’ he reflects on the door that Grüntzig opened ‘All of what we do now – radial day case intervention with great outcomes especially in STEMI and even in complex surgical cases – would not be possible without Gruntzig’s far-reaching insights More important is the capturing of great minds and innovators by his original work He was a clinical scientist and his original studies taught us careful clinical studies meticulous honest observations and robust reporting and interpretation of outcomes Most importantly he never oversold the procedure His contribution through example was and remains immense if by chance the first five patients had died - which was clearly a possibility considering the kit and lack of understanding regarding risk – then that would have been a completely different story Maybe his real contribution was that in his hands The former Chairman and Professor of Cardiology at the Swiss Cardiovascular Centre in Bern University Hospital Bernhard Meier is currently Senior Consultant developing the centre into the most active for interventional cardiology in Switzerland A close associate of Dr Andreas Grüntzig Meier has been involved in coronary angioplasty as an interventional cardiology specialist since the first case in 1977 He was involved in the development of structural interventions such as closure of the patent foramen ovale (PFO) and the left atrial appendage (LAA) and in the introduction of transarterial aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in Switzerland Tony Gershlick is a consultant cardiologist at Leicester’s Hospitals and Honorary Professor of Interventional Cardiology at the University of Leicester For more than two decades he has been at the forefront of developments in interventional cardiology in the UK and was the first cardiologist in the UK to implant a drug eluting stent (DES) and a bio-absorbable stent In January 2017 he was awarded the inaugural British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS) Lifetime Achievement Career Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the speciality of coronary intervention A new software to calculate the pressure drop and vFFR value (vessel Fractional Flow Reserve) in the coronary artery non-invasively was presented to interventional cardiovascular experts at EuroPCR… a global leader in manufacturing advanced medical imaging and radiotherapy equipment showcases a range of cutting-edge technologies aligned with sustainable values Photon-counting CT enables accurate diagnosis of coronary artery disease in high-risk patients a potentially significant benefit for people previously ineligible for noninvasive screening This website uses cookies to give our readers the best website experience. Please refer to our privacy policy to find out how we use cookies and how you can edit your preferences 4 October 2022 – Mutares SE & Co KGaA (ISIN: DE000A2NB650) has successfully completed the acquisition of MANN+HUMMEL’s high-performance plastic parts business which strengthens the Automotive & Mobility segment under the new name MoldTecs The acquired segments comprise MANN+HUMMEL’s global business for special high-performance plastic parts The company employs around 1,500 people at its production sites in Bad Harzburg Sonneberg (Germany) and Laval (France) and supplies all major automotive manufacturers worldwide MoldTecs will additionally benefit from synergies with LMS and SFC Solutions Group which together can already offer their customers an extensive product portfolio of injection molded components and elastomeric parts worldwide and will also be complemented by MoldTecs’ technology portfolio in the future Mutares and MANN+HUMMEL have agreed on a production cooperation as part of the transaction which will contribute to total revenues of EUR 500 million You need to load content from reCAPTCHA to submit the form Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers His victory in Noordwijk began a streak of eight consecutive tournaments in which he was undefeated He won matches against Efim Bogoljubov (1939) and Rudolf Spielmann (thrice Alekhine spoke out in favour of a match with the Austrian who had acted as a second during his successful attempt to regain the title from Max Euwe in 1937 but the Estonian too had twice fallen victim to Eliskases in tournament play SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Eliskases NimzoRoy    USA         View complete profile The She-Wolves beat BK Häcken 4-0 to round off their mid-season preparations. VfL Wolfsburg Women recorded a deserved 4-0 friendly win over Swedish league runners-up BK Häcken, with Janina Minge, Lineth Beerensteyn, Justine Kielland and Rebecka Blomqvist getting the goals.  The She-Wolves now have one more week to fine-tune their preparations and switch back to competitive mode ahead of hosting a relegation-threatened FC Carl Zeiss Jena side at the AOK Stadion on Monday 3 February at 18:00 CET I saw a lot of the things that we’ve been working on in training over the last few weeks Now we have to carry this over into league competition and do more of the same next week VfL Wolfsburg: Frohms (46‘ Borbe) – Wilms (60‘ Sellner) Nemeth (60‘ Jonsdottir) – Huth (70‘ Hagel) Kielland (70‘ Peddemors) – Beerensteyn (60‘ Endemann) BK Häcken: Falk – Kitagawa (65‘ Akgün) Luik Bergström (65‘ Selerud) – Schröder (Nyström) Attendance: 675 at AOK Stadion (Wolfsburg) Can Nazi barbarianism resurface in our modern world as one of its key promoters started out as a Nazi technocrat Associating “Nazism” and “management” in the same study is a perilous undertaking as both these terms are so inflammatory at times to the detriment of the quality of the analysis This is the feat Johann Chapoutot’s short book accomplishes with his subtle handling of the compossibility of a 20th century that saw the emergence of managerial ideology and the still lively question of the conditions under which Nazi barbarism can exist in our modernity his new book seeks to provide a new reading of the history of Nazism in other forms that include the ideology of management allows Chapoutot to pursue his analysis beyond 1945 to include the period after the Second World War Höhn was recruited by the SD (Sicherheitsdienst He went on to become Reinhard Heydrich’s senior assistant From 1941 to 1943 he was director of the review Reich the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Wehrmacht where he asserted himself as a specialist of the administrative organisation required for the future Greater Space (Grossraum) that focused on issues of “people management” (Menschenführung) His tireless intellectual work led him to a senior civil service position and in 1944 he reached the level of General (oberfürher) The interest of this book is that we rediscover the same character as the founder of one of the most prestigious business schools in West Germany which he established in 1956 in Bad Harzburg he trained a large section of the country’s economic elite in new management methods the methods were adapted to local culture—in this case German and presented in numerous bestsellers like Höhn’s Menschenführung im Handel (with Gisela Böhme 1962) or his Das tägliche Brot des Managements published in 1978 and translated into several languages The subject of the book is the continuum of the principle of modernity: between the destiny of the German academic elite of the inter-war period Three key movements emerge over the eight chapters of the book: the thinking of the IIIrd Reich administration with the issue of people management (Menschenführung) and then the post-war conversion to the translation of management sciences The historiography of the IIIrd Reich has long shown that the Nazi approach during the war was based on a “polycracy” reinforced by a profusion of metastatic institutions (Ingrao among which competition escalated and intensified Chapoutot recalls that the State was subjected to competition with parallel institutions Reinhard Höhn had already published this vision in 1934 in an article titled: “Die Wandlung im staatsrechttlichen” “The Transformation of Constitutional Thought” the concept of the State was born with the Renaissance the time of the individual and the legacy of the Princes this idea was no longer valid in the modern period with the new era that he called that of the “community” where power gave way to “the exercise of command” (Führung) This decentering of the focus of politics — with a shift from the State as an end to Power as a means—was born out of the Darwinist conception of the Nazi ideology The latter was critical of the artificial institution of the State that allows all individuals outside the “body of the people” (Volkskörper) to survive: viewing laws The “Reich’s vast vital space’ does not mean the State (in its Renaissance form) but “reign and kingdom” (the medieval form of regnum) the State would only have the right to exist if it no longer hampered the laws of Nature (p While the exaltation of “Germanic freedom” draws from an ancient legacy that dates back to the “freedom of the forests” described by Tacitus in Germania and to the 18th century thinkers (Boulainvilliers as in the 20th century the State and bureaucracy would be out-dated a leader is the leader-companion (Führer-Genosse) responsible for ensuring the application of the will of the community there exists a productive community (Betriebsgemeinschaft) that must no longer be organized by the theoretical corpus of the administration (Verwaltung) but by the alchemy of a new idea debated at the beginning of the 20th century: people management “People management” (Menschenführung) is the same as management, but not limited to it. Other works [3] have widely studied the intense debate around this idea and Chapoutot stops at emphasising Nazi ideology’s investment in this notion the Nazi view of the world is a constant battle against nature The aim of people management is to select and train these compatriots (Volksgenossen) to make them as efficient as possible biological and medical engineering were the cement of the sciences mobilised to bring this productive being into existence This Nazi management focuses on the idea of race and blood while the worker draws his satisfaction from belonging to a community that dictates who has the right to live and to exist “lives unworthy of life” and “asocial” beings were to be selected for elimination using the tools of biological Work is the leaven of the Germanic community: work camps seek to re-educate this group — the sick A new science—menschenführung–must help gratify motivate and create this vast productive German community the national socialist vision of work does not stop at purifying the world of the “incompetent” it also punctuates work in a form released from the Marxist capital/work opposition with an immense corporatist organisation based on “strength through joy” (Kraft Durche Freude) that replaces trade unions were the promises of the Nazi mass economy The discreet Höhn took advantage of the amnesty law of 1949 to convert thanks to the former SD network and sought after legal skills he became the director of the Société allemande d’économie politique an employer think tank dedicated to spreading managerial practices he founded a school in Bad Harzburg (Lower Saxony) for the West German industrial elites along the lines of the Harvard Business School Although within the space of a few years he shifted from a Nazi career to praise for industrial management apparently Höhn did not renounce any aspect of his ideas and theories more generally called “management by objectives” only suggests an autonomy of means and not of ends Reinhard Höhn writes: “Superiors never take decisions in their collaborators’ fields They never do more than their management duty This is how he elucidates modern management maintaining the contradiction of “freedom to obey”: decision making is supposed to be “delegated” to the lower ranks the organisation of “collaboration” and objectivising each individual’s “responsibility” Höhn remains faithful to his critique of the State and the bureaucracy This covert new public management considers that the administration should change its “management” and “organisational” system to become nothing more than a “partner” in the market economy The 1970s were to be more difficult for Reinhard Höhn: in 1972 the weekly Die Zeit sounded the death knell for the German translation of (so-called “delegation of responsibility”) management methods to promote American “management by objectives” slogans at the time when the Bad Harzburg Institute was shut down due to revelations of its links to former Nazis (p.121) Johann Chapoutot draws a parallel with the figure of Maurice Papon (President of Sud Avion/Aérospatiale) He wonders about these elites who support “reactionary modernity”: an “archaic” goal pursued using the most modern means of people management Finally the work only presents a single biography and the reader can legitimately wonder to what extent the argument can be generalized all these works obscure the “managerial moment” as such Johann Chapoutot’s work recalls the key role managerial discourse plays in the 20th century As it is a discourse on means and not ends it has long been a poor relation of the social sciences and historical research This book emphasises the major importance of the managerial moment in the explanation of Nazism and – Pour une recension plus critique de l’ouvrage par T. Le Texier, voir Reductio ad hitlerum [1] In his work “Modernity and the Holocaust” (1991) Zygmunt Bauman had suggested rereading the genocide industries barbarian process in comparison to modernity indeed ‘modern’ relationship of means to ends Johann Chapoutot belongs to a new generation of historians of Nazism who substantiate this view in “Believe and Destroy (2013) Christian Ingrao describes this generation of a new academic elite as does Götz Aly’s (2005) work that describes the actors and projects involved in this ‘rational’ enterprise promoted by the new Empire of the IIIrd Reich in Western Europe Several other works focus on the technocrats of extermination as a “business” [2] All of the quotes taken from the book were translated by the translator of the present text [3] Particularly the book by Mommsen (1990) on the contribution of the social sciences [4] And more specifically General Electric’s “decentralisation” model (Cordiner [5] Luc Boltanski (1982) provides a detailed presentation [6] Johann Chapoutot lingers on the idea of “Menschenführung” but never mentions an institution like the DINTA (Deutsches Institut für Arbeitsschulung) under the Nazi regime a version of a certain Taylorism under the vulgate of the IIIrd Reich (Nolan specifically dedicated to the engineer Aleksei Gastev the figures of Stakhanovism and managerial discourse [7] Particularly with his newspaper: the “Dearborn Independent” as well as his book that compiles his anti-Semitic insults: “The International Jew: the foremost problem Henry Ford had a huge influence on the first Nazis in Germany He is the only American Hitler mentions in his Mein Kampf and his involvement with Nazism earned him the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle the highest distinction under the IIIrd Reich [8] Without seeking to be exclusive we can mention Kurt Lewin and his “Democratic Leader” (1939) Peter Drucker and his concept the “End of Economic Man” (1939) or Abraham Maslow and his “Hierarchy of Needs” (1943) [9] On the involvement of companies (Plumpe 2012); on the recycling of managerial elites post 1945 (Berghahn [10] The Nazism theorized by Reinhard Höhn is necessarily out of step with factual history just as “managerial discourse” has always been out of step with company practices (Chopin [11] See specifically Yves Cohen’s (2013) work that emphasises modernity and the connection to the managerial moment of ideas supported by the Nazis Published: Invalid Date THIS is the crazy German race where horses swim through a lake as their jockeys try desperately to hang on before reaching dry land The amazing cross-country spectacle takes place in Hamburg each year It is believed that the snappily-titled Alpine Motorenol-Seejagdrennen is totally unique to Germany Betfair: Bet £10 Get £40 (£20 now, £20 during Cheltenham week) - CLAIM HERE Paddy Power: £20 Risk Free Bet- CLAIM HERE Betfair: Min stake £10, min odds 2.0 (Evs). 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It leads to a funny moment where the commentator yells 'das ist Box Office' in relation to one of the horses who unseated his rider. Bizarrely, that horse was the former JP McManus-owned runner that AP McCoy retired on in 2015. While chases such as the Grand National in this country can have up to 40 runners, this German race has far fewer. In 2016 there were 13 entrants - one of the biggest fields ever for the race - and all of them negotiated the lake successfully The race takes place during the city's Deutsches Derby festival but at both of those the horses can gallop through the water This is the only one where the lake is so deep the runners have to Commercial content notice: Taking one of the bookmaker offers featured in this article may result in a payment to The Sun Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/ This Page Has Washed AwayLooks like this page has disappeared with the tide — perhaps it’s buried in the sand at Vazon or drifting off Petit Port The fourth concert in this year's Bir Miftuh Music Festival organised by Din l-Art Helwa will be held in the mediaeval chapel of Santa Marija ta' Bir Miftuh on Friday at 8 p.m The concert is sponsored by the German Embassy Fassmann started violin lessons at the Dessau School of Music at a very young age She plays in the Dessau School of Music with the Old Music Ensemble and is a regular member of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Saxony-Anhalt Meyer is another very promising young musician She participated in the Bad Harzburg Festival of Music and the Leos Janacek Festival and this year has been on a tour with the Federal Youth Orchestra The duo has been playing together since 2001 with great success The evening's programme consists of works by Georg Philipp Telemann Tickets at Lm7.50 per person may be obtained from Din l-Art Helwa at 133 Proceeds will be in aid of the upkeep and maintenance of the chapel of Bir Miftuh and towards Din l-Art Helwa restoration projects please register for free or log in to your account.