Fritz Demmer

Fritz Demmer (born April 6, 1884 in Vienna , † June 17, 1967 in Wilhelmsburg (Lower Austria) ) was an Austrian surgeon.

Life

Demmer studied at the University of Vienna and became a member of the Corps Symposion, which also included the (nine years older) surgeon Paul Clairmont . From 1909 he was the primary physician at the polyclinic and assistant at the university clinic in Vienna. During the First World War he created mobile field surgery. He was regimental doctor and head of the 1st mobile surgeon group at the university clinic under Julius Hochenegg . He simplified hand disinfection. He completed his habilitation and in 1932 became a professor at the University of Vienna. A little later he was entrusted with the management of the I. Surgical Department at the General Polyclinic. Until 1935 he was the primary physician in the hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder in Vienna . He then served as the chief surgeon of the residential hospital in Tirana . Later he was the chief physician of the polyclinic in Vienna. He also worked as a court expert.

Memberships

Honors

Franz Joseph Order , Knight's Cross
Military Merit Medal (Austria) on war tie with swords (twice)
Medal of honor for services to the Red Cross , honor cross 1st class

Order of Merit Pro Merito Melitensi , Knight's Cross

Cross of Merit of the Austrian Red Cross

Decoration of honor of the German Red Cross

War Merit Cross, Class II (1941)

Works

Experiences of a group of surgeons in the Austro-Russian campaign 1914/1915 . Perles, Vienna 1915

Web links

Literature by and about Fritz Demmer in the catalog of the German National Library
Fritz Demmer in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1971, 137/32
↑ Clin. Wschr. 1935
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Karl Philipp Behrendt: The war surgery from 1939-1945 from the point of view of the advisory surgeons of the German army in the Second World War . Med. Diss. Univ. Freiburg 2003 [1]

personal data
SURNAME	Demmer, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	June 17, 1967
Place of death	Wilhelmsburg (Lower Austria)

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1971, 137/32

[2] Clin. Wschr. 1935

[KPB-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Karl Philipp Behrendt: The war surgery from 1939-1945 from the point of view of the advisory surgeons of the German army in the Second World War . Med. Diss. Univ. Freiburg 2003 [1]