Berthold Lohr
Berthold Christian Löhr (born November 20, 1920 in Kiel , † November 14, 1984 in Toronto , Canada ) was a German surgeon and university professor .
Life
As the son of Wilhelm Löhr and his wife Elisabeth, a daughter of Johann von Mikulicz , Löhr attended the (humanistic) grammar school in Magdeburg . After graduating from high school, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the beginning of the Second World War . From 1940 he studied human medicine at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , which made him a Dr. med. PhD .
First in Göttingen with Rudolf Schoen in internal medicine , he went to the Heidelberg surgery to Karl Heinrich Bauer . Surgical pathophysiology and pulmonary and thoracic surgery became his main areas of work. In 1955 he moved to Ernst Derra at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf , where he completed his habilitation in 1956 . As one of the first to deal with the heart-lung machine , he and other colleagues were sent by his boss to John Webster Kirklin at the Mayo Clinic .
In 1963 he followed the call of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel to the Department of Surgery. On October 1, 1963, he became director of the prestigious clinic. Like his grandfather v. Mikulicz in Wroclaw , he divided his clinic into departments. After the independence of neurosurgery and anesthesiology (1971), the departments created for Urology (1972), Heart and Vascular Surgery (1975) and Traumatology (1978). The directors were Heribert Wand , Alexander Bernhard and Dieter Havemann . 19 post-doctoral qualifications and 21 chief physicians emerged from Löhr's clinic . In 1970 he headed the 105th meeting of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons .
After the death of his first wife, he married his head surgery nurse. In his home on post see he grew orchids . Resigned from his full professorship in 1978 for health reasons , he emigrated to Canada with his wife . His son Joachim Löhr followed them.
His successor in Kiel was Horst Hamelmann from the Philipps University of Marburg .
literature
- Dieter Havemann : Obituary for the death of Prof. Dr. med. Berthold Lohr . Schleswig-Holsteinisches Ärzteblatt 1/1985, p. 48
- Rüdiger Döhler , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder and Eike Sebastian Debus : Surgery in the North. For the 200th meeting of the Association of North German Surgeons in Hamburg 2017 . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-942825-67-2 , pp. 210-211.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c D. Havemann (1985)
- ↑ Dissertation: Comparative experiments on the effects of polycaine and novocaine on the sensation of pain in human skin
- ↑ Habilitation thesis: Experimental and clinical studies on the influence of the oxygen content of the breath on the blood distribution in the small circulation
- ↑ G. Ziemer, A. Haverich: Heart surgery . Springer, Berlin - Heidelberg 2010
Georg Heinrich Weber (1783) | Johann Leonhard Fischer (1793–1832) | Christian Gottlieb Deckmann (1833–1837) | Gustav Biedermann Günther (1837–1841) | Bernhard von Langenbeck (1842) | Louis Stromeyer (1848) | Friedrich von Esmarch (1854–1899) | Heinrich Helferich (1899–1907) | Wilhelm Anschütz (1908–1938) | Wilhelm Fischer (1939–1945) | Robert Wanke (1946–1962) | Berthold Löhr (1963–1978) | Horst Hamelmann (1978–1991) | Bernd Kremer (1992–2009) | Thomas Becker (since 2010)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löhr, Berthold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Löhr, Berthold Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1984 |
| Place of death | Toronto , Canada |