Anton Hopf

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Anton Hopf (born November 7, 1910 in Tauberbischofsheim ; † December 29, 1994 in Aachen ) was a German specialist in orthopedics as well as full professor and medical director at the Aachen University Hospital .

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After high school studied Hopf medicine at the universities of Würzburg and Munich , where he in 1936 with a thesis on "arch fractures of the atlas and axis" doctorate . A year later he received his license to practice medicine and, after joining the NSDAP , became Erich Waizenegger's assistant at the municipal hospital in Saulgau in 1938 . In 1939 Hopf was drafted into the Wehrmacht and did his military service as a troop doctor in the army until the end of the war. In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released two years later. Hopf then completed his specialist training as an orthopedic surgeon at Heidelberg University Hospital , where he qualified as a professor in 1957 and took a position as an adjunct professor in 1961.

In 1960, Hopf moved to the Aachen City Hospitals and took over the management of the orthopedic clinic as the successor to Friedrich Pauwels . After the transfer of the municipal hospitals to the new Aachen University Clinic, Hopf was appointed full professor of orthopedics and medical director on May 14, 1966. In 1975 he founded the Institute for Physiotherapy at the University Hospital and retired on October 1, 1977. He then worked as a freelance orthopedist at the Marienhöhe District Hospital until 1981 and died on December 29, 1994.

Anton Hopf was a member of the German Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery (DGOOC) and was elected President in 1973.

literature

  • Richard Kühl: Leading Aachen clinicians and their role in the Third Reich , study by the Aachen Competence Center for the History of Science, Volume 11, Ed .: Dominik Groß, Diss. RWTH Aachen 2010, pp. 163/164; ISBN 978-3-86219-014-0 pdf

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ President of the DGOOC ( Memento of March 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Hopf, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orthopedist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Tauberbischofsheim
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1994
Place of death Aachen