German Society for Surgery

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German Society for Surgery
(DGCh)
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purpose Medical Society for Surgery
Chair: Thomas Schmitz-Rixen (July 1, 2019)
Establishment date: 1872
Seat : Berlin
Website: http://www.dgch.de/

German Society for Surgery (DGCh) is the scientific specialist society of surgeons; The seat is in Berlin.

history

Founder of the German Society for Surgery (1872)

The German Society for Surgery was founded in 1872 in the Berlin Hôtel de Rome , on Unter den Linden . The initiative for this came from surgeons Bernhard von Langenbeck, Gustav Simon and Richard von Volkmann in March of the same year.

The actual founding assembly elected the following board:

In the Committee were Theodor Billroth , Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben , Wilhelm Baum and Gustav Simon selected. Even then it was clear that the society would hold a congress of three to four days a year. The first meeting took place from April 10th to 13th, 1872 in the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . This first congress of the DGCh addressed, among other things, the “Comparison of broken bones in the lower extremities in times of war and times of peace”. The “new doctrine of wound poisoning” was later based on the knowledge gained there. Von Langenbeck remained - although he allegedly initially rejected the merger - as president of the company for 13 years, thereby helping the company to achieve great success. Ismail Gentz's picture of the founder from 1894 in the Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus is still reminiscent of the founding in 1872. A few years later, the congress increasingly moved to the lecture hall of the I. Royal Surgical University Clinic in Ziegelstrasse. Finally, the "old Langenbeck House" on the Spree , built with the participation of the German imperial family and inaugurated in 1893, offered a place for congresses and an extensive library until 1915.

The new building of the I. Royal Surgical University Clinic Berlin should develop into a "Mecca" for surgery with a worldwide reputation. Ernst von Bergmann worked there as director for many years ; also as long-time president of the company. Likewise were here August Bier and George Magnus worked. After 1907, Ferdinand Sauerbruch contributed to the worldwide reputation of the II. Surgical University Clinic in the old Charité . After the old Langenbeck-Haus had become too small for the DGCh, it decided together with the Berlin Medical Society (BMG) in 1915 to build the Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, its current headquarters. The First World War delayed the inauguration until in 1920, which finally took place together with the 44th German Surgeon Congress. Until the Second World War , the DGCh and BMG building served as a conference venue. After that it was the seat of the Soviet military administration in Germany . Expropriated by the GDR in 1953 , the Volkskammer elected Wilhelm Pieck as the first president of the GDR that same year . After decades of eventful history up to the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR in 1989 and subsequent long-term negotiations, the Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus returned to the hands of its two founding companies in 2002.

In parallel to the scientific developments, a decisive structural change took place within society: The increasing specialization was reflected in changes in the further training regulations - initially through sub-areas, then through focus areas and their own areas. Today the surgical specialties are united as associated members under the umbrella of the German Society for Surgery.

In 2011 the DGCh published the book German Society for Surgery 1933–1945 . Medical historians portray and analyze the positions of the DGCh presidents during the dictatorship. The authors deal particularly with the speeches of the presidents and their personal minutes. The biographies, scientific findings and political activities presented are based on unabridged sources and documentation. A second volume will deal with the fate of the members who were excluded from the DGCh at the time.

The DGCh is one of the oldest medical societies in the world. In 2012 it had around 6,600 members. With the members associated through the individual professional associations, it now represents around 17,500 surgeons.

The German Society for Surgery is a member of the Working Group of Scientific Medical Societies (AWMF).

Seat of the company

The DGCh is based in Berlin. She maintains her office in Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus at Luisenstrasse 58/59 in Berlin-Mitte. Today, the House of Surgery is, among other things, the seat of all scientific-surgical specialist societies and the professional association of German surgeons .

Study Center (SDGC)

The Heidelberg-based study center of the German Society for Surgery (SDGC) plans and coordinates randomized controlled studies that compare surgical procedures and surgical techniques. In addition to clinical relevance and originality, the criteria for selection are also the financial feasibility and feasibility of a proposed project. In order to provide information about ongoing clinical studies, the SDGC has a booth at the annual surgeon congress. The projects supported by the SDGC are also presented in the monthly magazine “Der Chirurg”.

Awards and grants

The DGCh awards various prizes and grants. In doing so, it is fulfilling its task, among other things, of promoting young surgeons but also of recognizing outstanding achievements in surgery. It awards the following prizes:

  • Von Langenbeck Prize
  • Rudolf Zenker Prize (donated by B. Braun Melsungen AG as an anniversary prize)
  • Karl Heinrich Bauer Prize (tumor research)
  • Felicién Steichen Prize (first awarded 2001)
  • Perioperative Medicine Prize (awarded since 2008)
  • Erich Lexer Prize
  • Wolfgang Müller Osten Prize
  • Video film award
  • Edgar Monster Prize
  • Poster price

Regional associations

activities

Conferences, working groups and sections offer members of the DGCh the opportunity to get to know the scientific and practical developments in special fields of surgery. They also allow those involved to develop themselves further and, insofar as there are corresponding requirements, to qualify for these areas of work in an objectively verifiable manner. The working groups and sections report annually on their activities in the members' magazine “Mitteilungen der DGCh”.

Surgical Research Section

The Surgical Research Section of the German Society for Surgery is an association of scientists who are active in the field of surgical research or who are involved in scientific exchange in this field. Special goals of the section are:

  • Promotion of surgical research, in particular through the exchange of experience, events and work conferences and advice to members in the German-speaking area.
  • Maintaining cooperation with specialist disciplines.
  • Advising the Presidium of the German Society for Surgery on the important practical and scientific issues of surgical research.
  • Advising the President of the German Society for Surgery in the selection of topics and speakers for the Society's annual congress, especially for the Surgical Forum.

Working groups

The surgical working groups (CA ...) are dedicated to a specific area of ​​responsibility.

  • Acute pain (CAAS)
  • Outpatient surgery (CAAO)
  • Developing Countries (CAEL)
  • Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (CAIN)
  • Hospital structure (CAK)
  • Teaching (CAL)
  • Media (CAM)
  • Quality and Safety (CAQS)
  • Perioperative Medicine (CAPM)
  • Minimally invasive, computer- and telematics-assisted surgery (CATC)

Annual congress (German surgeon congress)

The DGCh organizes the German Surgeon Congress every year . Its topics are set across priorities and areas. The respective President designs and leads this in agreement with the Presidium. The first surgeon congress took place in Berlin in 1872, Berlin remained the congress venue until 1940. The first congress of the German Society for Surgery after 1945 took place in 1949 under the chairmanship of Eduard Rehn in Frankfurt am Main in the Circus Althoff building at the zoological garden. The motto of the greeting from Professor Buer from the Institut International de Medicine de Paris was “ European Union ”. After the Second World War, the DGCh met in Munich for over 40 years (for example in the Deutsches Museum or in the Riem Congress Center ). Today the Easter congress changes annually between Berlin and Munich.

Publication organs

  • The Mitteilungen (Thieme) appear four times a year and are also available online. Once a year, the work and resolutions of the sections and working groups are announced here. The “Young Surgeons” section is aimed at the next generation.
  • The surgeon
  • Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery
  • Surgical Forum (Springer)

literature

Web links

Commons : German Society for Surgery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Norbert Jachertz: Medicine in the Nazi Era: Adaptation, a duty of honor in: Deutsches Ärzteblatt, 2011 (about a research project of the Society on History in the Nazi Era )
  2. ^ Prize winners of the DGCh
  3. Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 198.
  4. Reading sample Vol. I (Kaden Verlag)
  5. Reading sample Vol. II (Kaden Verlag)