Alfred Nikolaus Witt

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Alfred Nikolaus Witt

Alfred Nikolaus Witt (born February 9, 1914 in Strössendorf , † April 20, 1999 in Gmund am Tegernsee ) was a German orthopedist and university professor .

Life

Witt studied medicine in Munich and was active in the Corps Arminia in 1933 . He passed the state examination in 1938 and was the last PhD student from Erich Lexer to become Dr. med. PhD .

War surgery

In 1939 he began his surgical training in the Lindau district hospital. In 1940 he was drafted into the army (Wehrmacht) and served in the motorized surgeon's squadron of a military hospital in France. In 1941 he was transferred to the Hohenzollern School reserve hospital . With that he came to Max Lange , a great bone surgeon. From 1943 he helped him to set up an orthopedic-surgical department in Bad Tölz . The care hospital for the disabled and civilian population was established there in 1945. In the post-war period at Lange in Bad Tölz, he particularly looked after the disabled .

Munich – Berlin – Munich

In 1950 , Witt completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University . He was appointed senior physician in charge, senior government medical adviser and associate professor . After 1953 the reputation of the Department of Orthopedics of the University of Leipzig had refused, he followed 1954 the call of the Free University of Berlin and became director of the Oskar-Helene-Heim . He turned down the offer of the University of Cologne (1962).

Heidelberg, Munich and West Berlin were the most influential orthopedic chairs in the old Federal Republic (Leipzig in the GDR). In 1968 Witt succeeded his teacher Lange in his native Munich. As director of the State Orthopedic Clinic, he also became director of the Orthopedic University Clinic when the Großhadern Clinic was put into operation . In Berlin and Munich, Witt produced four later professorial chairs, including Michael Jäger and, subsequently, Hans Jürgen Refior .

Witt was found to have had medical errors in two cases and his employer, the Free State of Bavaria, was sentenced to pay compensation for pain and suffering; there were no criminal prosecutions. Firstly, in the case of Jürgen Bischof during an operation led by Witt. On the other hand, in the case of Theo Mauser, who woke up from anesthesia with paraplegia due to a surgical error by Witt . Here, too, Mauser was awarded compensation for pain and suffering. In 1982 Witt retired . He had been married since 1941 and had three sons.

Honors

Grave of Alfred and Ellen Witt in the Gmund Bergfriedhof

Honorary memberships

  • Collège International de Chirurgiens (1957)
  • Ecuadorian Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology (1958)
  • Association of Orthopedists in Austria (1959)
  • Turkish Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology (1967)
  • Berlin Orthopedic Society (1968)
  • German Society for Trauma Medicine (1973)
  • American Fracture Association (1973)
  • German Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology (1974)
  • German Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (1979)
  • Association of Bavarian Surgeons (1980)
  • Hungarian Orthopedic Society (1981)
  • Société Française de Chirurgie Orthopédique et Traumatologique (1983)
  • Czechoslovak Society for Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (1985)
  • Honorary President of the XVII. SICOT World Congress (1987 Munich)

Corresponding memberships

  • Sociedad Española de Cirurgía Ortopédica y Traumatologia (1962)
  • Japanese Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology (1968)
  • International Orthopedic Association (1970)
  • American Orthopedic Association (1973)

Awards

Honorary positions

  • Long-standing member of the Military Medical Advisory Board of the Bundeswehr
  • Member of the International Committee of SICOT
  • President of the German Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology (1960 Berlin; 1978 Munich)
  • President of the German Society for Trauma Medicine (1962 Würzburg)
  • Chairman of the Association of Bavarian Surgeons (1982)
  • Honorary member of the German Society for Surgery (?)

Editorships

Works

  • Treatment of pseudarthroses . Berlin 1952.
  • Tendon injuries and tendon-muscle transplants . Munich 1953.
  • with Horst Cotta and Michael Jäger: Congenital malformations of the hand and their operative treatment , 1966.
  • Fractures and dislocations in the pelvic area . Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1979.
  • Orthopedics in Practice and Clinic , Volume 1 - General Orthopedics: Biomechanics, Genetics, Ecology (1980).
  • Orthopedics in Practice and Clinic , Volume 4 - General Orthopedics: joints, muscles, nerves, vessels .
  • with Hans Rettig and Karl Fr. Schlegel: Orthopedics in practice and clinic. Volume 2. - General Orthopedics, 2nd, revised edition, Stuttgart 1981.
  • with Hans Rettig and Karl Fr. Schlegel: Handbook of Orthopedics: Special Orthopedics. Upper extremity , Vol. VI / 1.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 103/761.
  2. Head physician was Dr. Kamprath, employee of Prof. Dr. Karl Schindler.
  3. ^ Habilitation thesis: The treatment of pseudarthrosis
  4. zeit.de, accessed on September 3, 2014
  5. DOCTORS: Paralyzing silence . In: Der Spiegel . tape 1 , January 6, 1975 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 30, 2017]).
  6. zeit.de , accessed on September 3, 2014