Ernst-Rulo Welcker

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Ernst-Rulo Welcker (born December 11, 1904 in Heringen / Helme , Sangerhausen district (province of Saxony) , † April 30, 1971 in Cottbus ) was a German surgeon.

Life

Welcker was a descendant of the anatomist Hermann Welcker . He attended high school in Wittenberg . After graduating from high school, like his ancestors, he studied medicine at the Hessian Ludwig University . In 1923 he became active in the Corps Teutonia Giessen . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrichs University in Halle . In 1929 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. After two years in Halle's surgery with Friedrich Voelcker , from 1931 he worked with Ludwig Aschoff in Freiburg's pathology department. In 1933 he returned to surgery. At the (just renamed) Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald , he worked under Friedrich Pels Leusden , Georg Ernst Konjetzny and Karl Reschke . He completed his habilitation under Reschke in 1938. In 1939 he was appointed lecturer of the new order. When the attack on Poland began , he was employed as an assistant doctor in the Air Force (Wehrmacht) . In the western campaign , he led a motorized air force paramedic. Placed uk in 1940 , he specialized in orthopedics, which had not been represented in Greifswald until then . When Reschke died in 1941 at the age of 55, Welcker temporarily represented the chair for surgery. At the beginning of 1945 he was appointed associate professor . Before the end of the war he was seconded to Stettin; until September 1945 he headed a surgical department there, probably in the Stettin City Hospital . In the Soviet occupation zone he was again Deputy Clinic Director in Greifswald from October 1, 1945. He was dismissed as a lecturer in March 1946, but remained a senior physician. He quit in July 1946 to take up a position as chief physician in the destroyed Cottbus hospital. In 1948 he founded the Medical Society for East Brandenburg. Until 1963 he was its chairman. In 1950 he was elected to the Brandenburg State Parliament (1946–1952) . In the German Democratic Republic he was appointed Medical Director of the Cottbus District Hospital "thanks to his excellent organizational skills and his commitment to the health system based on the Soviet model" . In December 1970 he resigned as chief physician. A few months later he died of pneumonia at the age of 66 .

Memberships

Honors

  • Honorary Chairman of the Medical Society for East Brandenburg
  • Gold badge of honor of the German Boxing Association of the GDR (1965)

literature

  • Josef Horntrich: You could learn from him what it means to be a doctor . Brandenburgisches Ärzteblatt 12/2004, p. 404 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 167/680.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About scar strictures of the esophagus .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Experimental production of heterotopic bone formations .
  4. ^ History of the Medical Society of East Brandenburg
  5. ^ Arthur Huebner: Surgeons directory
  6. ↑ H. Eberle (2015)
personal data
SURNAME Welcker, Ernst-Rulo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Pegs / helmets
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1971
Place of death cottbus