Erwin Gohrbandt
Erwin Gohrbandt (born September 20, 1890 in Schlawe , Pomerania , † January 3, 1965 in West Berlin ) was a German surgeon and university professor .
Life
After graduating from Rega in Treptow in 1910 , Gohrbandt studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for Military Medical Education in Berlin from 1910 to 1914 . In 1910 he became a member of the Corps Franconia . At the beginning of the First World War he was drafted into the service as a field doctor . During his military service, he passed the state examination in January 1915 and received his license to practice medicine in 1917 .
Interwar period
He was then sent to the Charité Institute of Pathology . Between 1920 and 1928 he worked at the Surgical University Clinic of the Charité, from 1924 as senior physician and head of the pediatric surgery department. In 1924 he qualified as a professor for surgery and took up teaching. On June 6, 1928 he was appointed associate professor for surgery at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In the same year he moved to the municipal hospital Am Urban as chief physician of the II surgical department .
In 1931, Gohrbandt and Ludwig Levy-Lenz were among the first surgeons to perform sex reassignment surgery with vaginoplasty on some transsexual patients - an experimental pioneering achievement in his day. The patients Dorchen Richter , a domestic worker at the Institute for Sexology under Magnus Hirschfeld , and the Danish artist Lili Elbe are known by name .
In the time of National Socialism Gohrbandt was a research assistant for surgical questions in the social office of the Reich Youth Leader .
Second World War
From August 1939 Gohrbandt was consulting surgeon of the army and (from 1940) the inspector of the air force medical services (Wehrmacht) .
With effect from October 1, 1940, he moved to the municipal Robert Koch Hospital as head of the surgical department and at the same time became director of the III. Appointed Surgical University Clinic. Gohrbandt was a participant in the conference on medical issues in distress at sea and winter death on October 26th and 27th, 1942. From 1944 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the General Commissioner of the Führer for Sanitary and Health Care Karl Brandt .
post war period
In the post-war period he was Ferdinand Sauerbruch's deputy in the office of the City Council for Healthcare in Berlin as a whole. He was commissioned by the Soviet military administration in Germany and the Berlin magistrate to ensure sanitation and to monitor hygiene regulations. He pushed ahead with the reconstruction of the Moabit Hospital, which had been destroyed in the war, and headed its surgical department until December 31, 1958. At the same time he resumed his lectures at the newly founded Free University of Berlin and published the Zentralblatt für Chirurgie since 1946 . He was retired with effect from December 31, 1958 . Until his death in 1965 he ran an outpatient clinic in Berlin-Tiergarten .
His younger brother Paul Gohrbandt (1896–1975) was also a doctor.
Honorary positions
Gohrbandt acted as vice president of the Berlin regional association of the German Red Cross . He was also a member of the German Olympic Society . 1950/51 he was chairman of the Berlin Surgical Society .
Honors
- Iron Cross 2nd and 1st Class (First World War)
- Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords (February 1, 1945)
- Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1952)
- Honorary professorship at TH Berlin (1956)
- Honorary member of the Berlin Surgical Society (1958)
Works
- 1928: Textbook of Pediatric Surgery , 1928
- 1936: Surgical questions in paediatrics in practice , 1936
editor
- Central sheet for surgery
literature
- Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Munich 1995–1999
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Rolf Winau , Ekkehard Vaubel: Surgeons in Berlin: 100 portraits. Berlin 1983
- Karl Philipp Behrendt: The war surgery from 1939 - 1945 from the point of view of the consulting surgeons of the German army in the Second World War. (PDF; 2.3 MB) Dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau, 2003
- On the work of the surgeon Erwin Gohrbandt (1890-1965) for the Berlin University, the city administration and the Berlin Surgical Society . Zeitschrift für Ärztliche Fortbildung 84 (1990), pp. 1005-1008
Web links
- Literature by and about Erwin Gohrbandt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Erwin Gohrbandt in the Berlin district dictionary from A – Z
- Erwin Gohrbandt on GoogleBooks
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 66 , 461
- ↑ Harald Rimmele: Biography of Dorchen Richter at www.hirschfeld.in-berlin.de , last accessed on February 15, 2018
- ↑ A Trans Timeline - Trans Media Watch . Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 191f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gohrbandt, Erwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schlawe , Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1965 |
| Place of death | West Berlin |