Berlin Surgical Society

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The Berlin Surgical Society is a specialist society in Berlin . As the oldest regional surgical company in Germany , it stood for the international reputation of German surgery in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic .

history

Shine and ruin

The Free Association of Surgeons in Berlin was founded on November 22nd, 1886 in the lecture hall of the Clinic for Surgery at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . Bernhard von Langenbeck left the most modern teaching facility in Europe with 277 places in Ziegelstraße when he retired in 1882 . Georg von Adelmann , emeritus of the University of Tartu and father-in-law of the host Ernst von Bergmann , chaired the founding meeting. Also present were Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben , Maximilian Karl August Bartels , Ernst Julius Gurlt , Eugen Hahn , James Israel , Ernst Küster , Carl Langenbuch , Edmund Rose , Eduard Sonnenburg and Julius Wolff . From 1892 the new Langenbeck house in Ziegelstraße served as a meeting place.

In its first 25 years, the association held 202 meetings. It had around 300 members and was renamed the Berlin Surgical Society in November 1912 . Curt Schimmelbusch , Hans Schlange were among the non-surgical members .

After a five-and-a-half year hiatus due to the First World War , the BCG reunited in October 1919.

An expression of their national importance was the unabridged publication of the meeting minutes in the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift and in the Zentralblatt für Chirurgie until 1939 . In addition, the protocols have been published annually as edited volumes by Georg Thieme Verlag since 1888 .

Re-establishment

Banned by the Allies in May 1945, like all scientific societies, the BCG was re-approved by the Soviet military administration in Germany on March 21, 1947 . Of the 176 members in 1938, the urologist Oskar Rumpel brought 39 to the first post-war meeting on January 27, 1948. Karl Linser , President of the German Central Health Administration , Prof. Alipow from SMAD and Erwin Gohrbandt were present . The Surgical Society of the University of Berlin was chosen as the new name . It brought together surgeons from all four sectors of the city .

The meetings were held alternately in the Charité and in the Moabit hospital . The number of members grew from 78 to 180. In November 1953, without a resolution by the general meeting, it was renamed the Berlin Surgical Society .

division

After the construction of the Berlin Wall , the West Berlin colleagues were no longer allowed to come to East Berlin . The society had to hold separate meetings under the same name. Theodor Matthes opened the first meeting of the East Berlin Society on May 21, 1962. She took on the specialist training of colleagues in East Berlin, in the Potsdam district , in the Cottbus district and in the Frankfurt (Oder) district .

On October 8, 1963, with a two-year delay, the West Berlin surgeons commemorated the 75th anniversary of the company's foundation in the Kongresshalle (Berlin) . The keynote lecture was given by Rudolf Nissen , who the following day gave the same lecture to the surgeon in East Berlin in the surgical lecture hall of the Charité. That was the last bridge for decades. In April 1976 the dissolution of the company was up for debate. Gert Specht , head of the Auguste Viktoria Hospital, turned them away. He was chairman of the company in 1976/77 and secretary from 1978–1989. After Werner Körte and Ferdinand Sauerbruch , Specht was only the third honorary chairman.

For the centenary of the BCG in November 1986, over 300 surgeons from all over the world came to a symposium in the Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus .

reunion

“Immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, efforts began again for joint events, then for the reunification of the two parts of society. As early as January 15, 1990, as a result of the initiatives of the two chairmen at the time, Helmut Wolff in the eastern part and Ulf Stockmann in the western part, and with the participation of members of the presidia of the two German surgical societies, an unforgettable evening event took place in the completely overcrowded lecture hall of the Charité. It was an event, an experience like no other. Of course, retrospectives were held from both parts of society that had been separate from each other, and an excellent scientific report was even added; But the overwhelming thing was that we sat together again, saw each other again or got to know each other again. It was like a release that nobody could have dreamed of a few weeks before. "

- Helmut Wolff

The board members of both parts of the company met several times and agreed the next steps. After a (first) postal vote had produced a representative picture of the members' opinions, complete reunification took place in 1990. In 1991, under the chairmanship of Gert Specht , the association was renamed the Berlin Surgical Society - Association of Surgeons of Berlin and Brandenburg . The previously common monthly conference rhythm was abandoned in favor of a Berlin surgeon meeting in February at the Charité and a summer conference in Brandenburg . A good 1000 surgeons from Berlin and Brandenburg are currently members of the BGC.

The foundation of a Ferdinand Sauerbruch research award endowed with DM 20,000 was  anchored in the statute . The endowment is currently (as of 2013) 15,000 euros. A scholarship enables ten surgeons from Eastern Europe to work as a guest doctor for four weeks at Berlin and Brandenburg clinics.

Chairperson

The 13 founders managed BCG until the First World War.

The chairmen in East Berlin include Theodor Matthes (1962–1965), Hans Joachim Serfling (1965–1967), Hans Gummel (1967–1969) and Helmut Wolff (1981–1984 and 1986–1990).

The chairmen in West Berlin include Emil Bücherl (1971–1976), Rahim Rahmanzadeh (1984/85) and Roland Hetzer (1990).

Honorary Chairwoman

Honorary members

1861-1961

Berlin divided (1962–1989)

East Berlin

West Berlin

After 1990

See also

literature

  • Horst Bertram: 75 years of the Berlin Surgical Society . VEB Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1963.
  • Ernst Taubert: 100 years of the Berlin Surgical Society . In: Zentralblatt für Chirurgie , 111, 1986, pp. 1361 ff.
  • Helmut Wolff : Scientific symposium with international participation on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Berlin Surgical Society and the 150th birthday of Ernst v. Miner . Verlag Gesundheit, Berlin 1992.
  • Bernhard Meyer: November 22, 1886 - Foundation of the Berlin Surgical Society . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 11, 2000, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 70-73 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  • Helmut Wolff : The Berlin Surgical Society through the ages . In: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie - Mitteilungen , 2/2010, pp. 1–7.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ B. Meyer (2000)
  2. ↑ Berliner Ärzteblatt , Volume 103, April 2, 1990, p. 251.
  3. ↑ Communication from Helmut Wolff (December 2012)
  4. ↑ Edgar Ungeheuer : January 15, 1990 - A remarkable date for German surgery - A historical encounter in a historical place - Berlin . In: German Society for Surgery, Communications , April 1993
  5. ^ W. Heim. Munzinger
  6. ↑ Schöne, Georg. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  7. ↑ Hans Lippert . In: Ärzteblatt Sachsen-Anhalt