page_title: Hans Reese
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: Hans Reese / Early years
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse 1914
context_page_description: Hans Heinrich Reese was a German amateur footballer, physician, and neurologist who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was also on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.
context_section_description: Reese was born in Bordesholm, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in September 1891. He was educated at the University of Kiel, entering that institution in 1911 after finishing his secondary ("gymnasium") education. As a teenager and young adult, Hans became involved in sports and especially football. With Holstein Kiel he won the German football championship 1912. He played for Germany in the 1912 Olympic games, and retained an enthusiasm for sports throughout the rest of his life.
  Reese earned the M.D. degree in 1916. Immediately thereafter, he was conscripted as a junior officer in the German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) Medical Corps, serving as a military surgeon during World War I from 1916 through 1918. He was a combatant in the Battle of Jutland, and was awarded the Iron Cross and the Hanseatic Cross. 
  After returning to civilian life, Dr. Reese pursued postgraduate training at the University of Hamburg. He was a house-officer in internal medicine, pathology, and neuropsychiatry. Upon completion of his residency, Reese decided to commit the remainder of his career to the practice of neurology.
caption: Iron Cross of 1914
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