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25-732: The Preußische Hauptkadettenanstalt ( transl.  Royal Prussian Main Cadet Institute ) in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin, was the main military academy training officer corps of the Prussian Army from 1882 to 1920. From 1933 till 1945, the building complex housed the SS Division Leibstandarte . This German military article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gro%C3%9F-Lichterfelde The Prussian village Lichtervelde

50-590: A showpiece for East Bloc propaganda during the Cold War . Corpses of Berlin Wall victims were taken here for autopsies. In 1990, with the reunification of Germany , and in the years following, Charité once again became one of the world's leading research and teaching hospitals. The Charité has four different campuses across the city of Berlin with a total of 3,001 beds: In 2001, the Helios Clinics Group acquired

75-583: Is one of the largest cardiac centres in Germany for the treatment of all cardiovascular diseases in patients of all ages The Medical History Museum Berlin has a history dating back to 1899. The museum in its current form opened in 1998 and is famous for its pathological and anatomical collection. In 2003 the Berlin city and state House of Representatives passed an interim law unifying the medical faculties of both Humboldt University and Freie Universität Berlin under

100-512: Is seen as one of the founders of modern medicine. More than half of all German Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine , including Emil von Behring , Robert Koch , and Paul Ehrlich , have worked at the Charité. In 2010–2011 the medical schools of Humboldt University and Freie Universität Berlin were united under the roof of the Charité. The admission rate of the reorganized medical school

125-630: Is the largest in Europe. Charité students can spend up to a year at a foreign medical school with exchange partners such as the Karolinska Institute , University of Copenhagen , Sorbonne University , Jagiellonian University , Sapienza University of Rome , University of Amsterdam , and the University of Zürich . Students are also encouraged to participate in research projects, complete a dissertation, or join Charité affiliated social projects. In 2021,

150-918: The Lichterfelde-Ost railway station and the Hauptkadettenanstalt in 1881. In 1920 Lichterfelde became part of Greater Berlin . Between 1920 and 1933, the former military academy in Lichterfelde was used by the Berlin Police . From 1933 to 1945, the grounds of the military academy were the home of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler . During this same period, the anti-Nazi Kreisau Circle resistance group surrounding Count Peter Yorck von Wartenburg and Helmuth James Graf von Moltke held their secret meetings inside Wartenburg's apartment on Hortensienstraße 50 , Lichterfelde-West, during

175-615: The Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) became the translational research unit of Charité, making the Charité the first university clinic that receives direct and annual financial support by the federal state of Germany. Together with private charity donors like the Johanna Quandt 's private excellence initiative or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , as well as financing by the State of Berlin ,

200-594: The Free University of Berlin . The Charité traces its origins to 1710. The complex is spread over four campuses and comprises around 3,000 beds, 15,500 staff, 8,000 students, and more than 60 operating theaters, and has a turnover of two billion euros annually. The modern history of medicine has been significantly influenced by scientists who worked at the Charité. Rudolf Virchow was the founder of cellular pathology, while Robert Koch developed vaccines for anthrax, cholera, and tuberculosis. For his life's work Koch

225-610: The German Federal Archives , headquartered in Koblenz . Two other kasernes "Roosevelt Barracks" in Gardeschützen-Kaserne (former seat of the Prussian Army 's Guards Rifles Battalion ) and " McNair Barracks ", a former Telefunken manufacturing plant on Goerzallee were nearby. While Lichterfelde-Ost was in parts badly damaged during World War II , Lichterfelde West is still largely intact and today one of

250-696: The Third Reich . Generaloberst Ludwig Beck had his house on Goethestraße 24 in Lichterfelde-Ost. In 1942–1945, Lichterfelde was the location of a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . There were seven known escape attempts, five successful. From 1945 to 1994 the Hauptkadettenanstalt was in use as "Andrews Barracks" by the United States Army 's Berlin Brigade . Today it belongs to

275-511: The Charité as a teaching hospital in 1828. During this time it became home to such notable medical pioneers as Rudolf Virchow , known as "the father of modern pathology " and whose name is given to the eponymous "Virchow's Method" of autopsy; the Swiss psychiatrist and neurologist Otto Binswanger , whose work in vascular dementia led to the discovery of Binswanger's Disease —so coined by his colleague Alois Alzheimer ; Robert Koch , who identified

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300-609: The Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin – Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts (DHZB) have merged their cardiac medical facilities to form the Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC). The DHZC is located at the three clinical campuses of Charité at Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Benjamin Franklin. It comprises a total of eight clinics and institutes with around 2,500 employees and has around 470 beds. It

325-638: The artificial conical hill, from which he started many of his flight attempts, is located in Lichterfelde Süd. The following personalities were buried in the Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde among many others: Charit%C3%A9 The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin ( Charité – Berlin University Medicine ) ( pronounced [ʃaʁite] ) is Europe's largest university hospital , affiliated with Humboldt University and

350-523: The eastern parts of Lichterfelde. Its 19th-century commercial area is centered around the Lichterfelde West railway station , which also serves nearby Free University of Berlin in neighboring Dahlem . Most of the commercial and residential buildings in Lichterfelde West are protected landmarks. Lichterfelde Ost, like Lichterfelde West, was also developed as a settlement of mansions, yet many of

375-459: The estates were damaged in World War II. The Lichterfelde Ost railway station serves as a hub for regional rail and commuter rail and is surrounded by a large commercial area. Lichterfelde Süd was developed in the 1960s and 1970s and is large made up of suburban housing estates, being a significant architectural deviation from the older mansion settlements. The Otto Lilienthal Memorial Park with

400-530: The hospitals in Buch with their 1,200 beds. Still, the Charité continues to use the campus for teaching and research and has more than 200 staff members located there. The Charité encompasses more than 100 clinics and scientific institutes, organized in 17 different departments, referred to as Charité Centers (CC): Overall, 12 of those centers focus on patient care, while the rest focuses on research and teaching. On 1 January 2023, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and

425-652: The majority of its original and pre-war structure was damaged or destroyed during the war, it nevertheless was used as a Red Army hospital. The Charité remained in the Soviet Sector of Berlin until the formation of the German Democratic Republic , the GDR (German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR ) in 1949, more commonly called East Germany . Under the Communists , standards were largely maintained, and it became

450-683: The name Groß-Lichterfelde (Greater Lichterfelde). Lichterfelde was chosen as the seat of the Prussian Main Military academy , the Preußische Hauptkadettenanstalt , in 1882, and the district became the home to many famous families from the German nobility due to their connections with the Prussian Army . The world's first commercially successful electrified tram line, the Gross-Lichterfelde tramway , opened between

475-521: The name "Charité", French for "charity". The construction of an anatomical theatre in 1713 marks the beginning of the medical school, then supervised by the collegium medico-chirurgicum of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In the 19th century, after the University of Berlin (today Humboldt University ) was founded in 1810, the dean of the medical college Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland integrated

500-628: The new direct federal investments will become the third financial foundation for research at the Charité. In addition, it is part of the Berlin University Alliance , receiving funding from the German Universities Excellence Initiative in 2019. Many famous physicians and scientists worked or studied at the Charité. Indeed, more than half of the German Nobel Prize winners in medicine and physiology come from

525-725: The prime residential areas of Berlin. The Lichterfelde locality also houses the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum and the Campus Benjamin Franklin , built in 1968 and today part of the Charité university hospital . Lichterfelde West was developed as a settlement of mansions and is one of the wealthiest residential areas of Berlin. It is home to the Berlin Botanical Garden and embassies. The Teltow Canal geographically separates it from

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550-721: The roof of the Charité. Since 2010–2011 all new medical students have been enrolled in the New Revised Medical Curriculum Programme with a length of 6 years. The Charité is together with Heidelberg University Medical School Germany's most competitive medical school (2020). 3.17% of all Charité Medical School students are supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation , one of the highest percentages of all public German universities. The Erasmus Exchange Programme offered to Charité Medical School students includes 72 universities and

575-565: The specific causative agents of tuberculosis , cholera , and anthrax ; and Emil von Behring , widely known as a "saviour of children" for his 1894 discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin at a time when diphtheria was a major cause of child death (among many others). During the Second World War , the Charité endured the Battle of Berlin and Berlin was taken by the Red Army on 2 May 1945. Though

600-447: Was 3.9% for the 2019–2020 academic year. Complying with an order of King Frederick I of Prussia from 14 November 1709, the hospital was established north of the Berlin city walls in 1710 in anticipation of an outbreak of the bubonic plague that had already depopulated East Prussia . After the plague spared the city, it came to be used as a charity hospital for the poor. On 9 January 1727, King Frederick William I of Prussia gave it

625-399: Was founded in the 13th century by Flemish settlers. It witnessed considerable growth in the 19th century when the two "villa colonies" of Lichterfelde-West and Lichterfelde-Ost were founded: elegant settlements for wealthy Berliners consisting completely of villas or mansions . These settlements and the historical villages of |Lichterfelde and Giesensdorf were united in 1880 under

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