Alfred Gütgemann

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Alfred Gütgemann (born December 14, 1907 in Bonn-Mehlem ; † January 17, 1985 in Bonn ) was professor of surgery and from 1954 to 1977 director of the surgical clinic at Bonn University Hospital .

Life

Gütgemann attended high school in Bonn. After graduating from high school (1927) he studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , which made him a Dr. med. PhD. At the Surgical University Clinic he was a student of Erich von Redwitz , with whom he completed his habilitation in 1941 . In 1942/43 he headed a Wehrmacht hospital in Smolensk for the treatment of bone and joint injuries. Adjunct professor since 1947, he became Redwitz's successor in 1954.

During the time when Gütgemann was director of the Bonn clinic, separate departments for clinical chemistry and surgical research were established. Among other things, this led to the development of our own heart-lung machine . One focus of the clinic was surgery of the esophagus and stomach as well as of the liver, gall bladder and biliary tract. A separate ward was reserved for patients suffering from the effects of liver cirrhosis .

The intensive preoccupation with the diseases of the liver led to Gütgemann's colleague Jong-Soo Lee performing the first liver transplant in Germany on June 19, 1969 . His patient, a 30-year-old man with end-stage liver cell carcinoma , received the healthy organ of a man of the same age who had recently died of a stroke . The transplant recipient lived with the new organ for seven months until he too died of liver failure as a result of hepatitis . A total of seven liver transplants were carried out under Gütgemann before the center of German transplant medicine moved from Bonn to the Hannover Medical School to Rudolf Pichlmayr . In 1977 Gütgemann retired .

During his time as full professor in Bonn, seven new chairs emerged from the clinic: Neurosurgery 1954 ( Peter Röttgen ), Orthopedics 1967 (Helmut Rössler), Clinical Biochemistry 1968 (Heinz Breuer), Urology 1971 ( Winfried Vahlensieck ), Nuclear Medicine 1972 ( Cuno Winkler ), Anesthesiology 1973 (Horst Stoeckel) and cardiovascular surgery 1977 (Paul Gerhard Kirchhoff).

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  1. ↑ Dissertation: Studies on the blood lactic acid level during operations under ether anesthesia, lumbar and local anesthesia .
  2. ↑ Organ transplantation: Daring Decision Dtsch Arztebl 2009; 106 (25): A-1294 / B-1102 / C-1074 Jachertz, Norbert
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SURNAME Gutgemann, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Flour
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1985
Place of death Bonn