Fritz Erler (doctor)

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Fritz Erler (born September 5, 1899 in Freiberg , † September 10, 1992 in Nuremberg ) was a German medic.

Life and professional history

Erler was born in Freiberg in central Saxony, but due to the origins of his mother, spent a lot of time in her hometown Nuremberg as a child. Stations in his school days were Freiberg, Dresden, Stettin and Munich. Towards the end of the First World War he served briefly as a flight mate with the naval aviation forces in Kiel. In 1920 he began studying medicine in Munich, which he completed in 1927 with a doctorate under the pathologist Max Borst , before he worked as an assistant doctor under Fritz Lange at the Orthopedic University Clinic in Munich- Harlaching from 1929 to 1932 . After his father fell in Serbia in 1917, Erler was forced to set up a general practitioner practice in Eisendorf near Munich in 1926 to relieve the financial burden on his mother's family . In 1932 he moved briefly to the Charité in Berlin, where he acquired specialist certification as an orthopedist and surgeon under Ferdinand Sauerbruch . After working in a trade association accident ward in Munich from 1933 to 1935, he settled in Nuremberg as an orthopedist and surgeon in 1935.

Erler Clinic Nuremberg

At the instigation of the employers' liability insurance association , he first established a clinical accident ward in the Martha-Maria hospital and in 1940 his own accident clinic (36 beds) in Fürther Straße 6, which from 1942 included an orthopedic outstation in Schwaig . During the Second World War he served as an officer in the air raid protection service . In 1951 he founded an orthopedic clinic in Ellingen, before the new construction of the accident clinic (300 beds), which still exists today, began in Kontumazgarten in 1965 , for the preparation of which a non-profit GmbH was founded in 1963 and which was modernized and expanded several times over the years. In 1987 the Dr. Fritz Erler Foundation , which holds all shares in the Dr. Erler GmbH holds. In 1990, Erler designated the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg as his sole heir. Fritz Erler headed the specialist clinic for surgery and orthopedics until a few years before his death in 1992. He is buried in the St. Johannis cemetery .

Dr. Fritz Erler Science Prize

From the so-called Dr. Fritz Erler fund is from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in a cycle of three years in international journals in the field of Operative Medicine of worth 25,000 EUR Dr. Fritz Erler Science Prize announced , since 2005 a Dr. Fritz Erler Junior Prize for young scientists.

Previous winners
  • 1999: Hiroshi Akiyama (Japan)
  • 2002: Peter Joseph Jannetta (USA)
  • 2006: Friedrich Paul Magerl (Austria), Stephan Ensminger (Junior Prize)
  • 2009: Henrik Kehlet (Denmark), Ulrich Kneser (Junior Prize)
  • 2012: Wolfgang Steiner, Kolja Gelse (Junior Prize)

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Award from the Dr. Fritz Erler Fund at the university. In: presse.uni-erlangen.de. October 22, 2002, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Dr. med. Fritz Erler. In: erler-stiftung.de. Retrieved March 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Two new operating theaters are being built in the Erler Clinic. In: marktspiegel.de. Retrieved March 11, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Dr. Fritz Erler Fund. In: med.fau.de. Retrieved March 11, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Dr. Fritz Erler Science Prize for Hiroshi Akiyama. In: abitur-und-studium.de. December 14, 1999, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Dr. Fritz Erler Science Prize for Prof. Dr. Peter Joseph Jannetta. In: presse.uni-erlangen.de. October 22, 2002, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  7. ^ University of Erlangen-Nuremberg: Dr. Fritz Erler Prize for Professor Magerl. In: juraforum.de. January 30, 2006, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Awarded to Dr. Fritz Erler Prize 2009. In: erler-klinik.de. October 13, 2009, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Awarded the Fritz Erler Prize. In: fau.de. October 24, 2012, accessed March 11, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Erler, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1992
Place of death Nuremberg