Friedrich Loeffler (medic, 1885)

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Friedrich Karl Georg Loeffler (born September 13, 1885 in Berlin ; † May 28, 1967 in East Berlin ) was a German orthopedist and university professor.

Life

Grave site in the Evangelical Cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichshagen

Friedrich Loeffler came from a family of well-known doctors. He was born the son of the hygienist and bacteriologist Friedrich Loeffler . His grandfather was the military doctor Friedrich Loeffler . His maternal great-grandfather was the secret medical councilor Dr. Laengner, a godfather of Otto von Bismarck .

Loeffler grew up mainly in Greifswald , where his father was appointed professor for hygiene and the history of medicine in 1888. After graduating from the humanistic grammar school in Greifswald, he studied medicine at the universities of Greifswald and Würzburg. In 1906, like his father, he became a member of the Corps Moenania Würzburg . In 1911 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. In 1911 and 1912 he went on several long trips abroad as a ship's doctor. From 1912 to 1914 he worked as an assistant doctor at Hermann Gocht's private orthopedic clinic in Halle . In 1914 he became a research assistant at the surgical university clinic in Halle under Victor Schmieden and later under Friedrich Voelcker . At the First World War he took from the outbreak of war as a naval senior assistant physician in the third U-Boat Torpedo Boat Division and the Marine hospital Hamburg until November 1, 1916 in part. From 1916 to 1922 he was commissioned to set up an orthopedic department at the surgical university clinic in Halle. In 1919 he completed his habilitation there for orthopedic and trauma surgery.

From 1921 to 1922 he ran a private clinic in Merseburg. In 1923 he was appointed associate professor for orthopedic and trauma surgery at the University of Halle and became chief physician of the orthopedic sanatorium for the administrative district of Merseburg and the private clinic for orthopedic and trauma surgery in Halle. From 1932 to 1945 he acted as a transit doctor for the Central German Employer's Liability Insurance Association. In 1936 he joined the NSDAP.

After the end of the Second World War, he was dismissed by the University of Halle in 1945 and again hired as a professor with a teaching position for orthopedics in 1950. From 1951 to 1957 he was a professor with a chair for orthopedics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and director of the orthopedic clinic at the Charité . In addition, from 1953 to 1955 he held the professorship with the chair for orthopedics at the University of Leipzig and was acting director of the local orthopedic clinic. In 1953 Loeffler was the founding chairman of the Society for Orthopedics of the GDR. In 1958 he took over the management of the surgical department of the Kaulsdorf Hospital , which he gave up in 1961 at the age of 76. He was buried in the Christophorus cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichshagen .

Several new surgical methods can be traced back to Loeffler. A surgical method for the treatment of habitual shoulder dislocation deserves special mention.

Awards

Fonts

  • The trajectories of the spondylitic subsidence , 1919
  • What do parents need to know about orthopedic care and education for their children? , 1920
  • Der Verband - textbook on surgical and orthopedic dressing treatment , 1922 (together with Fritz Härtel)
  • Surgery of the spine and pelvis In: Textbook of surgery
  • General orthopedics for doctors and students , 1964
  • Orthopedic surgical theory , 2nd edition, 1979 (together with Peter Friedrich Matzen and Eberhard W. Knöfler)

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 141 , 662
personal data
SURNAME Loeffler, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loeffler, Friedrich Karl Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orthopedist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1967
Place of death East Berlin