Eduard Rehn

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Eduard Rehn (born January 20, 1880 in Frankfurt am Main , † May 10, 1972 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

Eduard Rehn was the son of the surgeon and pioneer of cardiac surgery Ludwig Rehn . He studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg and was active in the Corps Hasso-Nassovia in 1898 . The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich doctorate him in 1904 to Dr. med. He began training as a surgeon and in 1914 completed his habilitation in 1914. From 1914 he was an associate professor at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1924 he was appointed director of surgery at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . In 1927 he went to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In the following year he received a call to the chair of surgery and as director of the surgical university clinic in Freiburg, succeeding Erich Lexer . In 1931 the surgery was rebuilt under the ordinariate of Eduard Rehn, next to which he had a private clinic from around 1935, which was destroyed in 1944. Rehn's staff included the surgeon Hans Killian as senior physician and associate professor , who had followed him from Düsseldorf to Freiburg in 1928. In 1940 Rehn was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1949 he was President of the German Society for Surgery . 1952 Emeritus , Rehn was as head doctor at the city hospital of Ettenheim operates.

Eduard Rehn was married to Maria Kümmell, the daughter of the surgeon Hermann Kümmell . With her he had two sons, Klaus Rehn and Jörg Rehn . The Corps Suevia Freiburg awarded him the ribbon on July 22, 1952.

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  1. ^ A b Klaus Vassel: Corps history of Hasso-Nassovia in Marburg 1839–1954. A retelling , Vol. 2. Marburg 1981, p. 276.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About Complications of Hydronephrosis .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Osophagus Surgery - A clinical and experimental study of the surgical approach to thoracic and abdominal esophageal tumors .
  4. ^ Fritz Steger: Old postcard shows the Freiburg private clinic of the surgeon Eduard Rehn. Badische Zeitung, March 18, 2019, accessed on March 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Hans Killian: There is only God behind us. Sub umbra dei. A surgeon remembers. Kindler, Munich 1957; here: Licensed edition as Herder paperback (= Herder library. Volume 279). Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-451-01779-2 , pp. 88 and 251.
  6. ↑ Member entry of Eduard Rehn at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 6, 2016.
  7. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 157/1135
personal data
SURNAME Rehn, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1972
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau