Ekkehard Sagittarius

Ekkehard Schütze (born May 4, 1908 in Berlin , † October 4, 1980 in Schwerin ) was a German surgeon.

Life

Memorial plaque for Ekkehard Schütze at the former district hospital in Schwerin

Schütze studied medicine at the Prussian University of Greifswald . In 1928 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Greifswald . At the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin he was awarded a Dr. med. obtained his doctorate in 1953 , he completed his habilitation at the University of Rostock . As a professor and chief physician of the surgery he directed until 1974, the district hospital of the district Schwerin in Werderstraße 30. By together put it operational departments, he founded the forerunner of today's Helios Kliniken Schwerin .

After 1945 Schütze was involved in social projects and in Mecklenburg's social policy . As a former social democrat from Schwerin , he was expelled from the SED in the early 1950s because he had openly criticized the transformation of the SED into a “new type of party” . However, he was able to continue his work as a doctor, since doctors were absolutely needed.

"The misery around me spoils my joy in my own well-being and makes me responsible to help those who cannot help themselves."

- Ekkehard Sagittarius

On the occasion of his 100th birthday, the Schwerin Clinic honored Schütze as the "forefather of Schwerin health care" with a plaque in the former district hospital, which last served as an orthopedic clinic after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution .

Publications

The three elements of medicine . Schwerin 1961

Honors

Web links

Literature by and about Ekkehard Schütze in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature about Ekkehard Schütze in the state bibliography MV
City magazine Schwerin
Entry on Ekkehard Schütze in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 18/509.
↑ Dissertation: Transient glycosuria in tubal abortion . Berlin, 1934
↑ Habilitation thesis: The femoral neck fracture and its treatment with special consideration of homoioplastic osteosynthesis

personal data
SURNAME	Sagittarius, Ekkehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH	May 4, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	4th October 1980
Place of death	Schwerin

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 18/509.

[2] Dissertation: Transient glycosuria in tubal abortion . Berlin, 1934

[3] Habilitation thesis: The femoral neck fracture and its treatment with special consideration of homoioplastic osteosynthesis