On 13 February 2016 Dr. med. Dagmar Radke passed away after a serious illness.
We mourn our colleague, friend, companion, teacher and adviser.
With her we have lost a physician and colleague who encouraged us, constantly gave us courage, aroused our curiosity and whose enthusiasm for homeopathy infected us all.
Dagmar Radke, a specialist in anaesthesia, came to the practice of Dr. med. Dietrich Berndt through the severe bronchial asthma of her eldest son; she became his pupil and successor in the practice. Besides Dietrich Berndt, Matthias Dorcsi was the person who influenced her most. Her role models were the great homeopathic clinicians of the last century: Stiegele, Voegeli and Stauffer.
As an anaesthetist and homeopath she always thought both clinically and homeopathically. This resulted in a very successful homeopathic therapy that was readily applicable in everyday practice. She cared deeply about the thorough homeopathic training of young doctors.
Thus, in 1985 – also out of gratitude to her teacher Dietrich Berndt – she founded the Dietrich-Berndt-Institute, which offered four seminars annually. Over the last decades several hundred doctors were introduced here to the fundamentals of homeopathy – among other things through live presentations. In addition, she held a teaching post for the elective subject Homeopathy at the Martin Luther University in Halle.
Dagmar Radke not only taught successfully but also practised successfully. She accompanied, comforted and healed her patients often over decades. Her empathetic and lovable manner meant that patients, even when they moved far away, repeatedly returned to Göttingen for homeopathic treatment.
Her experience, her suggestions, her advice and her readiness to help will be greatly missed. She was and remains a role model to us all.
On behalf of the Göttingen Society of Homeopathic Physicians
Dr. med. Karl Kreikenbaum
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Dagmar Radke was, among other things, co-author of the very popular book Homeopathic Remedies for Influenza by Douglas Borland.
All works by Dagmar Radke.
