Emil Karl Frey

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Emil Karl Frey (born July 27, 1888 in Kaufbeuren ; † August 6, 1977 in Gmund am Tegernsee ) was a German surgeon and university professor in Düsseldorf and Munich.

Life

As the son of a banker, Frey attended the humanistic Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich (Abitur 1907). He studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . After the state examination and doctorate in the spring of 1913, he initially devoted himself to pathology and internal medicine . As a medical officer (medical officer) in the First World War , he proposed a closed treatment of skull-injured soldiers, which soon found general recognition.

Frey began his surgical training after the war at the Surgical University Clinic in Munich. Under Ferdinand Sauerbruch , it was the world's leading clinic for thoracic surgery . It also became Frey's specialty, to which he devoted numerous scientific publications. In 1924 he completed his habilitation at Sauerbruch and became a private lecturer in surgery. As a newly appointed associate professor , he went to the Charité in 1927 with Sauerbruch , where he discovered the body's own active ingredient kallikrein (the "heart hormone" padutin ).

In 1930 he accepted the call as full professor and successor to Hans von Haberer at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . He soon performed bilateral lung operations there, in 1938 the world's first closure of a ductus arteriosus Botalli and for the first time the correction of scoliosis by removing a wedge vertebra . From 1939 to 1943 he was rector of the academy. Frey, since 1939 a member of the Nazi party , was in World War II as Oberfeldarzt Advisory surgeon of the Wehrmacht . From August 1942 he was a member of the Scientific Senate for Army Medical Services. In 1944 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the authorized representative for health care Karl Brandt . Frey's student Max Madlener was his representative and successor in Düsseldorf. He also helped him as a medical officer in the Wehrmacht. Further students of Frey were Karl Vossschulte (Gießen) and Otto Wustmann (Königsberg, Worms). In 1943 Frey became director of the Munich University Surgical Clinic and professor there. After the bombing , the clinic was largely relocated to Tegernsee and was completely destroyed in December 1944. Frey devoted the last few years of his term of office to their reconstruction. In 1959 he retired .

Frey's biochemical research was the starting point for modern peptidase research . So held Adolf Butenandt the eulogy on Frey when he in 1975 in the Order le Mérite Pour was taken.

portrait

  • 1948 cast bronze plaque, oval-shaped, 127: 114 mm. Medalist: Heinrich Moshage . Back in nine lines: TO HIS DEAR TEACHER PROF. DEDICATED GRATITUDE TO DR. EK FREY ON THE 60th BIRTHDAY OF HIS PUPIL KH 27.VIII.1948

Publications

  • The Surgery of the Heart (1939)
  • with Heinrich Kraut and Eugen Werle: Kallikrein (Padutin) . Stuttgart 1950
  • Surgery, Research, and Life . Graefelfing 1974

Honors

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB -ID 12448436 , 1906/07
  2. ↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 158.
  3. ^ A b c Hans Rudolf Berndorff : A life for surgery. Obituary for Ferdinand Sauerbruch. In: Ferdinand Sauerbruch: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition Bertelsmann, Munich 1956, p. 459.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 164 f.
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Emil Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaufbeuren
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1977
Place of death Gmund am Tegernsee