Albert Krecke

Albert Krecke (born February 28, 1863 in Salzuflen , † July 29, 1932 in Munich ) was a German surgeon.

Life

Albert Krecke was the last of eight siblings to be born on February 28, 1863 in Bad Salzuflen. At the age of 18 he left his hometown to begin studying. Krecke studied, among other places, in Erlangen , where he became Adolf Strümpell's assistant and completed his studies in 1885 with a dissertation on nerve sutures . After working for a long time as a ship's doctor , he settled in Munich in 1890, where he founded a private clinic in 1896 , which was located in Hubertusstraße in Nymphenburg from 1914 . By Thomas Mann , he was there for surgery on his sons Klaus Mann and Golo Mann visited. Krecke was co-editor of the Munich Medical Weekly and founder of the Leipzig Association (today's Hartmannbund ) in southern Bavaria. In 1925 he was chairman of the Association of Bavarian Surgeons .

“There are a few places where you [...] feel what being a doctor is. Incidentally, also what kindness is and helpfulness and genuine Christianity. "

- Kurt Tucholsky on The Doctor and His Sick : Letter to Dr. Hedwig Müller, May 15, 1935

Fonts

Kreckes grave in the forest cemetery (Munich)

Contributions to practical surgery. Annual reports 1910–1926. 6 volumes
Contributions to practical surgery. Report on the years 1927–1930 from the private surgical clinic. Lehmann, Munich 1936.
About the doctor and his sick. JFLehmanns Verlag , Munich 1932
The doctor and his patients. K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, London 1934

literature

Fritz Lange : Albert Krecke † . Munich Medical Weekly 34 (1932).
Wolfgang Locher : The beginnings of the private surgical hospital of Dr. Albert Krecke in Munich, 1890 to 1914 . Univ. Diss., Demeter, Graefelfing 1984.

Web links

Literature by and about Albert Krecke in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Bayerische Ärztezeitung, December 3, 1939 PDF
↑ Jochen Eigler: Thomas Mann - Doctors of the family and medicine in Munich , in: Thomas Sprecher (Ed.): Literature and illness in the fin-de-siecle (1890-1914): Thomas Mann in a European context. The Davos Literature Days 2000 (Thomas Mann Studies, 26). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3465-03163-6 Google-Books-Link
↑ Letters from Silence , Rowohlt, Reinbek 1977

personal data
SURNAME	Krecke, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Salzuflen
DATE OF DEATH	July 29, 1932
Place of death	Munich

[1] Bayerische Ärztezeitung, December 3, 1939 PDF

[2] Jochen Eigler: Thomas Mann - Doctors of the family and medicine in Munich , in: Thomas Sprecher (Ed.): Literature and illness in the fin-de-siecle (1890-1914): Thomas Mann in a European context. The Davos Literature Days 2000 (Thomas Mann Studies, 26). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3465-03163-6 Google-Books-Link

[3] Letters from Silence , Rowohlt, Reinbek 1977