Dieter Wessinghage

Dieter Wessinghage (born August 16, 1933 in Hagen ) is a German orthopedist , surgeon and rheumatologist . He is a professor emeritus and was director of the Regensburg University Orthopedic Clinic in Bad Abbach . His nephew is Thomas Wessinghage .

Life

Dieter Wessinghage spent his childhood in his hometown and had to move to Herborn / Nassau due to the war. He attended the Staatliche Realgymnasium Dillenburg and passed his Abitur at the Leibniz-Gymnasium Dortmund in 1954. He then studied business administration in Münster and then human medicine in Marburg, Würzburg and Munich. In 1961 he passed his medical state examination at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , where he also received his doctorate.

From 1961 to 1963 he was a medical assistant at the Hospital Zum Heiligen Geist in Hagen-Haspe in surgery with Fritz Breuer and Kosta Aleksić and internal medicine with Keitlinghaus. His third station took him to Encker in Groß-Burgwedel, where he received his license to practice medicine in 1963 .

He then worked at the Kirchen / Sieg district hospital, in the Mainz University Surgical Clinic from 1966 with Fritz Kümmerle and in trauma surgery with Carl-Heinrich Schweikert. From 1968 Wessinghage was in charge and responsible for the introduction of rheumatoid surgery, knee joint replacement (full and sled prosthesis) and finger joint replacement according to Swanson. Until 1978 worked in orthopedics (including at the University Hospital Aachen with Anton Hopf ) and in hand surgery (in Gothenburg and Hamburg). Further stations were rheumatology in Wiesbaden and Bad Kreuznach, rheumatism orthopedics and surgery in Vainio, Heinola (Reumasairala SF) and Zurich. In 1972 he was appointed assistant professor at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In the same year Wessinghage completed his habilitation there at the medical faculty in surgery under Kümmerle; this was followed by the appointment of senior physician in trauma surgery. In 1973 he became an associate professor for surgery at the Medical Faculty of the University of Mainz. On October 1, 1973, he was appointed head physician of the newly founded operative, later 1st Orthopedic Clinic in the "BRK Rheuma-Zentrum Bad Abbach", intended as the "Orthopedic University Clinic Regensburg".

From 1974 to 1994 he was Medical Director of the BRK Rheumatism Center in Bad Abbach. In 1984 a second habilitation took place on the initiative of the State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, Mathilde Berghofer-Weichner , by the "Natural Science Faculty III" University of Regensburg in the subject of clinical anatomy at one of the chairs for anatomy, represented by Karl-Heinz Wrobel . In 1996/1997 the "Orthopedic Clinic Bad Abbach" was contractually incorporated into the University of Regensburg as the "Orthopedic University Clinic".

In 1973 he completed his habilitation for the third time at the medical faculty of the University of Regensburg with the granting of the license to teach orthopedics combined with the appointment of university professor, chair holder and clinic director.

Further engagements, activities in the general interest

• 1974 Founding Member of the "International Arthroscopy Association"
• 1982 - 1997 board member of the "Professional Association of Doctors for Orthopedics" (BVO),
• 1983-1995 Member of the Medicines Commission B 2 Rheumatology at the Federal Health Office with constant expert activity
• July 1983 deployment in the earthquake area of ​​central Italy ( earthquake of Irpinia 1980 ) i. A. of the Bavarian Red Cross (BRK), also for the donation of medical devices and instruments to destroyed and rebuilt clinics
• 1984 - 1997 German representative of the "Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes" of specialists in orthopedics and rheumatology in the entire EC area
• 1988 - 1995 Voluntary entry into the medical service of the Bundeswehr (although belonging to the "white age groups") to plan and implement structure-changing measures relating to the care of combatants and non-combatants in military area VI. After short training in several annual vacations, active in the rank of OFA in the planning and installation of parts of the medical service for participation in several analog and digital (short) military exercises
• April 1989 deployment i. A. von BRK and German Foreign Ministry in the earthquake region of Armenia ( Spitak earthquake 1988 ) and a. to record and document amputated children and to set up orthopedic workshops for their care
• 1991 Convocation in the First Gulf War as part of NATO planning to carry out the transport of the wounded and for further care in Nuremberg. Cooperation with the US armed forces, the Army Aviation of the BW, Eifel, and the military areas of the airports Rhein-Main, Nuremberg, Baumholder, Bayer. State Ministry of the Interior as well as the US hospitals in Germany and special clinics or departments in German clinics
• 1993 appointment to the "Humboldt Society for Science, Art and Education".

honors and awards

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon;
• Golden badge of honor for exceptional services to the Bavarian. Red Cross (BRK);
• Hubert Waldmann plaque for extraordinary services to German orthopedics;
• Certificate of thanks from the Medical Faculty for academic work and for achievements in the establishment and development of university teaching in "Orthopedics" at the University of Regensburg, WS 1999/2000;
• Honorary member of the ARO;
• Honorary member of the "Society of Medical Assistant Professions for Rheumatology";
• Appointment as a member of the “Humboldt Society for Science, Art and Education”.

literature

• Herbert Junghanns (Ed.): List of surgeons. 6th edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1980, ISBN 978-3-662-00529-3 , p. 786.
• Annual research reports Uni Regensburg, Naturwiss. Faculty III from 1984 clinical anatomy
• Annual research reports at the University of Regensburg, Faculty of Medicine from 1997 on Clinical Anatomy, Orthopedics
• Opening lecture: Südd. Orth.- Kongr. 1991, B.-B.
• in: Hömberg, E. (Editor): The 1000 best doctors - qualifications and successes, scientific reputation and operations; in the series: Focus Counselor Medicine; Focus Magazin 1993 Munich Book edition: Bertelsmann Book no. 02886 0; P. 129
• Preface Presentation at the opening: BVO Congress 1995, Würzburg
• Words & pictures: Wessinghage, D., Leeb, Isolde: Arthrosis - What to do when the joints wear out? - Medical advisor; Foreword Wort & Bild Baierbrunn 2000
• The German Who's Who 2005, Schmidt-Römhild, Who is who? Lübeck XXII. Edited, 2005
• Who's who in Europe, servi-tech, Brussels 4th ed. Ff.
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2005; KG Saur Verlag – Thomson, Munich; up to and including 21st edition 2007 ff.
• Zacher, J .: Laudation to Dieter Wessinghage, on the occasion of the awarding of the ARO honorary membership at the 19th ARO annual conference in Stromberg / Bad Kreuznach, headed by H. Thabe, 9. – 11. June 2005; ARO-Aktuell 4: ARO conference in Stromberg
• Siemon, G .: Appreciation in the history of the Nibelungia, Landsmannschaft im CC 1879 - 2004; Coord .: Nickel, H .; AHV Nibelungia zu Marburg ad Lahn; P. 136, Marburg 2005
• Foreword Hirzel: Wessinghage, D., Leeb, Isolde: Arthrose; German edition: Hirzel Stuttgart 2009
• Russian edition Moskwa 2009; Artros - Rukowodstvo dir paschientow, perevod s Nemetschkogo pod redaktschiei. Dieter Wessinghage - Isolde Leeb; D-ra. med Nauk LI Alekseewoi
• Gruber, A., Donhauser-Gruber, U. (Ed.): Rheuma, ISBN 978-3-13-143261-2 ; eISBN 978-3-13-170341-5 Thieme Stuttgart New York 2012 Wessinghage, D .: Chap. 5. Introduction and operational procedures pp. 78–80; Wessinghage, D .: Chap. 5.4 Soft tissue operations pp. 85–87