Carl Ritter (medic)

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Carl Ritter

Carl Georg Ritter (born April 15, 1871 in Kiel , † March 26, 1965 in Hameln ) was a German surgeon .

Life

Carl Ritter was the son of the Kiel ophthalmologist Adolph Ritter , who died in 1873 at the age of 42. Carl Ritter attended the Kiel School of Academics from Easter 1877 to Michaelis 1890 . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen . In the winter semester 1890/91 he became active in the fraternity of the Bubenreuthers . After the Physikum in the 4th semester, he served for six months with the Infantry Regiment "Duke of Holstein" (Holsteinisches) No. 85 in Kiel. After five clinical semesters at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , he passed the state examination on June 25, 1895 and the rigorosum exam on July 6, 1895 . Since August 1, 1895, he has been a volunteer assistant in the Kiel pathology department, and from October 1, 1895, he again served with the 85s. With a doctoral thesis in pathology, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD.

Habilitated in surgery with Heinrich Helferich at the Royal University of Greifswald in 1899 , from 1904 he was the chief physician of the polyclinic. He was appointed professor in 1906 and in 1909 he was elected director of the Surgical Clinic in Poznan City Hospital. When his colleague Max Jaffé , director of the Jewish Hospital in Poznan, died, Ritter gave the commemorative speech. After participating in the whole of World War I, he was expelled from Poznan by the Poles in 1919. For 17 years he was head of the Evangelical Hospital in Düsseldorf. The Medical Society Düsseldorf and the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Surgeons Association elected him as chairman. In 1939 he retired.

After the beginning of the war he worked as a doctor in Hameln again until the 1950s. In 1945 he asked several ordinaries if they wanted to chair the first post-war conference of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons . Confused about their past or the location, everyone waved it off. With the consent of the British military government , Ritter himself organized the conference in Büren (Westphalia) in 1946 .

Descendants

Two sons and one grandson are also Bubenreuther. The younger son Rudolf Ritter (1905–1931) died as an assistant doctor at the Pathological Institute of the University of Freiburg. The older, the PhD philologist Hans Adolf Heinrich Ritter (1902-1994), founded and managed the educational children's home in Schaumburg / Weserbergland. As a writer, he mainly published writings for young people and literary studies. For his research on the subject of the Nibelungen , he received the Federal Cross of Merit in 1987 and the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1989

Honors

  • Honorary member of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ritter's CV before his doctorate
  2. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity . Erlangen 1936, p. 270, No. 1999
  3. ↑ Dissertation: The finer changes in the airways in Krup and Difterie
  4. ↑ forum.ahnenforschung.net
  5. ↑ Report from the daily press, probably "Westfalen-Zeitung", Stadtarchiv Büren, Stadtchronik Büren 1946, p. 209.
  6. ↑ An incentive for a new work - Cross of Merit for Nibelungen researcher Dr. Heinz Ritter , Schaumburger Zeitung, February 23, 1987
  7. ↑ Order of Merit for Dr. Ritter - Awarded a history book author. In: Schaumburger Zeitung, April 14, 1989.
  8. ↑ Julius Andreae, Fritz Griessbach: The fraternity of the Bubenreuther 1817-1967 . Erlangen 1967, p. 127, No. 1998 (1999)
  9. ↑ On the history of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons, 125th conference, 12. – 14. June 1980, p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Ritter, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritter, Carl Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1965
Place of death Hamelin