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Edgar Ungeheuer (born January 6, 1920 in Rimbach ; † October 16, 1992 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German surgeon .

Life

Edgar Ungeheuer was born on January 6, 1920 in Rimbach in the Odenwald . As the son of a country doctor, he grew up in Weinheim. There he graduated from the Realgymnasium on Bergstrasse. In 1938, after graduating from high school, he was drafted into the armed forces, but released a little later to study. He studied in Halle, Strasbourg and Heidelberg, among others. In 1944 he finished his studies with a state examination and doctorate in Heidelberg. He then took up the surgical training in the surgical clinic in Heidelberg with Karl Heinrich Bauer and in 1947 moved to the surgical university clinic in Frankfurt am Main. In 1953 he was qualified to teach surgery. In 1958 he became an adjunct professor and in 1963 medical director of the Surgical Clinic Northwest in Frankfurt am Main.

Among other things, he became known for his open heart operations with the heart-lung machine , as one of the first German doctors. His main aim was to catch up with the innovations in American surgery. Also worth mentioning are his services in trauma, vascular and abdominal surgery. He published his surgical experiences in large numbers and received numerous awards as a result.

In October 1970, at the instigation of Ungeheuer, the Northwest Clinic released the assistant doctor Hans Mausbach after he had criticized the authoritarian structures at West German clinics in a television broadcast. In 1984 Edgar Ungeheuer was the conference president of the Rescue and Disaster Avoidance Section of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care Medicine .

On October 16, 1992, Ungeheuer died of cancer in Frankfurt at the age of 72. Posthumously he was honored by the German medical profession with the Paracelsus Medal in 1994.

In 1964 he was accepted into the Teutonic Order , and in 1965 he was invested as Commander in the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

Awards and honors

1964 Soviet Vishnevsky Medal
1969 Ernst von Bergmann badge
1980 plaque of honor from the city of Frankfurt am Main
1981 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
1990 Large Federal Cross of Merit
1994 Paracelsus Medal (posthumous)

The German Society for Surgery awards the Edgar Ungeheuer Prize for media of particular scientific and didactic value.

literature

Nordwest Chirurgie Frankfurt am Main: History of the surgical clinic

Web links

Literature by and about Edgar Ungeheuer in the catalog of the German National Library
Died: Edgar Ungeheuer. Obituary. In: Der Spiegel. 44, 1992.
Laudation for the award of the Paracelsus Medal to E. Ungeheuer (PDF)

Individual evidence

↑ Demigod in white. In: Der Spiegel. 43, 1970.
^ WF Dick: German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine (DIVI). In: Jürgen Schüttler (Ed.): 50 Years of the German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine: Tradition and Innovation. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2003, ISBN 3-540-00057-7 , pp. 260–264, here: p. 261.

personal data
SURNAME	Monsters, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH	January 6, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rimbach (Odenwald)
DATE OF DEATH	October 16, 1992
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Demigod in white. In: Der Spiegel. 43, 1970.

[2] WF Dick: German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine (DIVI). In: Jürgen Schüttler (Ed.): 50 Years of the German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine: Tradition and Innovation. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2003, ISBN 3-540-00057-7 , pp. 260–264, here: p. 261.