Franz Niedner (surgeon)

Franz Niedner (born September 17, 1905 in Frankfurt am Main , † June 16, 1974 in France ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

Niedner attended the Kreuzschule in Dresden. After graduating from high school, he began to study medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Graz . He became active in the Corps Makaria Munich and the Corps Joannea . As an inactive , he moved to the University of Rostock , the University of Hamburg , the University of Leipzig and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . From 1939 to 1945 he served as a medical officer , most recently as a division doctor (Oberfeldarzt) of the 6th Mountain Division (Wehrmacht) . He completed his habilitation in Vienna in 1943 and taught there as a private lecturer . Niedner was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 152.211) and the SS (membership number 2.549), where he was promoted to SS-Standartenführer at the end of January 1945 . In 1951, after the war, he obtained his qualification at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . There he became a private lecturer and in 1956 an adjunct professor . In 1955 he became chief physician and director of the surgical clinic of the municipal hospitals in Ulm . After founding the University of Ulm , he became full professor of general, abdominal and thoracic surgery and head of the first department of the department of surgery.

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 .
Deutsche Corpszeitung 75 (1974), p. 197f.

personal data
SURNAME	Niedner, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	17th September 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	June 16, 1974
Place of death	France