Conrad Ramstedt

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Conrad Ramstedt (born February 1, 1867 in Hamersleben , † February 7, 1963 in Münster ) was a German physician.

Ramstedt was born as the son of the secret medical council Constantin Ramstedt (1831-1911) and his wife Agnes geb. Lackmann (1841–1936) was born in Hamersleben in what is now Saxony-Anhalt. From 1889 to 1894 he studied medicine in Heidelberg , Berlin and Halle (Saale) . In 1889 he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg . In 1893 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . In 1894 he became an assistant to Max Oberst at the miners' hospital Bergmannstrost in Halle . From 1896 to 1901 Ramstedt completed his specialist training at the surgical university clinic in Halle with Fritz Gustav von Bramann .

In 1901 he came to Münster for the first time as an active medical officer in the Cuirassier Regiment “von Driesen” (Westphalian) No. 4 , which was to become his home until the end of his life. In 1903 he opened a "private clinic for serious cases" there. In 1909 he moved to the Raphaelsklinik , where the Clement Sisters set up a surgical department for him. In 1911 he performed the first operation to narrow the gastric outlet ( pyloric stenosis ) as a result of muscle hypertrophy on a young boy. In 1912, at the conference of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors in Münster , Ramstedt presented his new surgical procedure, which is still used today as the " Ramstedt operation ". In 1914 Conrad Ramstedt was appointed chief staff and regimental doctor.

In 1947 he ended his work as chief physician in the surgical department. At the suggestion of the medical college of the Raphaelsklinik, Ramstedt was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957. Ramstedt died in 1963 at the age of 96.

Conrad Ramstedt was married to Felicitas born in 1920. Bahlmann (1892–1978), a daughter of Karl Bahlmann . He was Karl Lagerfeld's godfather . Lagerfeld said of him: "That was the fanciest man I have ever seen, and the only person who has ever slapped me".

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Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 68 , 576
  2. Insight (s) 2/2003 ( Memento of March 2, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) p. 14 pdf edition of the journal for employees of the hospital carrier company Misericordia
  3. Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin, October 2015, p. 88.