Günther Schramm (physician)

Günther Schramm (born August 27, 1896 ; † after 1969) was a German doctor.

Act

From 1933 Schramm was chief physician of the orthopedic-surgical clinic of the Oberlinhaus in Nowawes near Potsdam . Almost two years later he took over the medical management of the orthopedic sanatorium "Bethesda" in Stettin - Züllchow . During the Second World War he served as the commander of a minesweeper from 1939 to 1943 . Shortly before the Red Army moved in , he fled Stettin and settled in Hamburg in May 1945.

After the Second World War he was the chief physician of the orthopedic department of the General Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek (now Asklepios Klinik Barmbek ) and the state physician for the physically handicapped for the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Schramm was considered to be one of the best experts on the situation when it came to the inpatient accommodation needs of disabled children and young people in post-war Germany. As early as 1954 he pointed out that after the impending adoption of the Physically Disabled Persons Act ( Act on the Welfare of the Physically Disabled and Persons at Risk of Physical Disability ; February 27, 1957) in the Bundestag, that in his estimation the need would be much higher here because it So far there was no obligation to report physical disabilities. Although he was in government service himself, he preferred a church sponsorship, as he did not assess government institutions with sufficient qualifications. Together with Senator Ernst Weiß , the head of the State Welfare Office Käthe Petersen , the member of parliament Eugen Glombig , Kurt Juster and a few other people, he founded the Association for Physically Disabled Welfare in Hamburg on March 15, 1960 . V. , who opened the newly built Senator Neumann Home for physically handicapped young people in 1962 .

Schramm was a member of the German Society for Surgery and the German Orthopedic Society . In 1969 he took part in the congress of the German Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology .

He was followed by Rupprecht Bernbeck as chief physician and state physician for the physically disabled . One of his two sons is Günther Schramm . He also had daughters.

Fonts (selection)

• About orthopedic footwear. In: Negotiations of the German Orthopedic Society. Enke, 1935, p. 410 ff.
• About the innate formation of the skin. In: Journal for orthopedics and their border areas. Vol. 70, 1940, pp. 189 ff.
• The care of the thigh amputation stump in war surgery. Munich 1941. (Dissertation)
• The inflammatory lordosis. In: Journal for orthopedics and their border areas. Vol. 71, 1941, p. 172 ff.
• The replacement of the M. opponens pollicis by the M. palmaris lg. In: Journal for orthopedics and their border areas. Vol. 78, 1949, pp. 245 ff.

Web links

• Günther Schramm on his 70th birthday, in: Journal for Orthopedics and their Border Areas, Volume 101, 1966.
• Günther Schramm Entry in: Archive for Clinical Surgery, Volume 183, 1935.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schramm, Günther (Dr. med., State Physician for the Physically Disabled, born August 27, 1896) in Archivportal-D
2. ↑ Law on welfare for the physically disabled and persons at risk of physical disabilities of February 27, 1957 ( digital copy )
3. ↑ Bodo Schümann : After the destruction. Dealing with people with disabilities in Hamburg's politics and society. 1945 to 1970. LIT Verlag Münster, 2018, p. 332.
4. ^ Negotiations of the German Society for Surgery. 1937, S. XC.
5. ^ Negotiations of the German Orthopedic Society. Enke, 1938, p. XXIX.
6. ^ Negotiations of the German Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology. Vol. 56, Enke, 1969, p. XLII.
7. ↑ 100 years of Barmbek Hospital. Asklepios Klinik Barmbek, 2013, p. 33. ( PDF )
8. ↑ Günther Schramm: The assistant to the "Commissioner" turns 80 - Many other roles: One who brings a good mood into the living room , onetz.de, February 14, 2009