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Haidhausen (Munich)
Haidhausen is a suburb in Munich, Germany. It is now part of the borough —or stadtbezirk— number 5 Au-Haidhausen.-Location:Haidhausen is located above the suburb Au...
of Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, Germany
Germany
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. It was founded in 1834, with 36 beds, as the Haidhauser Armen- und Krankenanstalt (Haidhausen Institution for the Poor and Sick) in a former coffee house, and was later run by Catholic nuns. Today it is considered one of Bavaria's finest medical institutions.
In Britain, the hospital is best known for being the place where the 21 people who survived the impact of the Munich Air Disaster
Munich air disaster
The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes",...
(6 February 1958) were treated. (The BBC concluded that 23 had survived the crash although that later became the death toll.) Five people involved in the crash of British European Airways Flight 609 were just given injections for shock, but the 18 others were hospitalised for at least a few days with significant injuries. Two of them, Manchester United
Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...
player Duncan Edwards
Duncan Edwards
Duncan Edwards was an English footballer who played for Manchester United and the England national team. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young United team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid 1950s, and one of eight players who died as a result of the Munich air disaster.Born in Dudley,...
and aeroplane co-pilot Ken Rayment, died at the hospital as a result of their injuries. The other 16 injured people survived and most made a complete recovery from their injuries. The chief surgeon
Surgeon
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who saved the lives of many of the injured, Dr. Georg Maurer, was awarded a CBE
Order of the British Empire
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for his efforts. He went on to have a very successful career at the hospital; in 1967 he helped make the hospital part of the Technical University of Munich
Technical University of Munich
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and later became the medical director of the Faculty of Medicine there.
Since 2003, the clinic has been an independent public institution (in German: Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts).