Franz Schedel

Franz Schedel (born September 19, 1915 in Passau ; † August 20, 1996 in Kellberg near Passau) was a surgeon at the University Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and long-standing medical director of the Passau Clinic.

Youth / school / studies

His father was an officer in the Bavarian Fire Protection Department. His grandfather owned an ore foundry and was wealthy for the time. He himself grew up in Passau . His father was transferred several times for professional reasons, so that he attended various schools ( Augsburg , Günzburg ). He completed his studies at the University of Munich. He was examined in the pre-physics course in chemistry by the Nobel laureate Prof. Heinrich Otto Wieland , whom he was later even allowed to take care of. During the war he was employed as a junior doctor in various hospitals.

Medical training

After the war, Schedel worked at the partially bombed surgical university clinic in Munich. One of his superiors was Max Lebsche . Lebsche was one of Ferdinand Sauerbruch's most important students and was instrumental in the further development of the so-called Sauerbruch prostheses .

Direct contact with Prof. Sauerbruch, who was already retired at the time, was rather unfortunate for the junior surgery assistant Schedel. On his on-call duty he had not recognized the evening visitor Sauerbruch, thought him a con man and wanted to refer him to the nearby psychiatric hospital. His boss at the time, himself a senior physician from Sauerbruch, was able to prevent worse.

Professional development

Schedel completed his habilitation in 1954 at the University of Munich (subject: blood circulation in a plaster cast) and then moved to the Passau Clinic on September 1, 1955 (until 1980) as chief surgeon and medical director. He founded the nursing school there and initiated the continuous expansion of the clinical facility. From Passau, too, he continued to give lectures in Munich. He was known for his lecture “Surgery for Dentists”.

In 1957 he acquired the health spa in Kellberg and built a clinic there, which later became Professor Schedel Clinic. In 1963 Schedel was made an adjunct professor. He was a member of the main committee of the Bavarian Hospital Society. He received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his achievements . In addition to Kellberg, he was the initiator and founder of another rehabilitation clinic in Lübben for the fields of orthopedics and oncology .

Fonts

Surgical textbook for dentists . Hippokratesverlag, Stuttgart 1961
The blue mirror . Morsak Verlag, 1982
A story that begins on September 19, 1915 . Morsak Verlag, 1992 (autobiography)

personal data
SURNAME	Schedel, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon and clinic director
DATE OF BIRTH	September 19, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Passau
DATE OF DEATH	August 20, 1996
Place of death	Kellberg near Passau