Georg-Wilhelm Rodewald

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Georg Rodewald

Georg-Wilhelm Rodewald (born March 13, 1921 in Kiel , † June 27, 1991 in Hamburg ) was a German heart surgeon .

Life

Georg Rodewald started school in Kiel in 1927 as the son of the Kiel doctor Berthold Rodewald . In 1928 the family moved to Waldenburg in Lower Silesia . From 1931 he attended the humanistic grammar school there. Back in Kiel with his parents in 1933, he switched to the Kiel School of Academics , where he passed his Abitur in 1939.

Wehrmacht and studies

After four months in the Reich Labor Service , he was drafted into the army (Wehrmacht) to attack Poland . He was wounded in March 1944 and treated in hospitals . While still on convalescence leave, he was able to start studying medicine at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel in the summer semester of 1944 . As of November 1944, he was able to use the war again, but returned to the troops. In May / June 1945 he was a US prisoner of war. Then he began a one-year apprenticeship in the construction business of his father-in-law. In the winter semester 1945/46 he was able to resume studies. From 1948 he was a student assistant with Erich Opitz (physiologist) . After he had passed the state examination in June 1950 with "very good" and also with "very good" for Dr. med. After receiving his doctorate, he stayed as a medical assistant in Kiel Physiology for two years. 1951/52 he was an assistant in a Munich medical practice for internal medicine.

Hamburg

Supported by the German Research Foundation , he began his clinical career on October 1, 1952 at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . With the support of Albert Lezius , he advanced the development of cardiac surgery . In November 1958 he became a specialist in surgery. Four weeks later he completed his habilitation. In 1958/59 he was with Clarence Crafoord and Åke Senning at Karolinska University Hospital. In 1959, the heart-lung machine was used in eight patients. Since 1962 senior physician, in 1965 he was appointed associate professor and first department director of the "Operative Cardiology Department". In 1966 it was renamed the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery. In January 1969 he received a full professorship in cardiovascular surgery and experimental cardiology. From 1970 to 1982 he was managing director of the surgical clinic at the UKE. He was one of the founders of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery and became its first president on January 9, 1971. In 1977 he headed the 120th meeting of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons (NWCH). In October 1978 he traveled to China with a delegation from the Max Planck Society . From 1980 to 1988 he was the first secretary (= president) of the NWCH. On March 31, 1987 he was retired . His student Peter Kalmár followed him in office.

Cross-disciplinary research

Rodewald had an unusually broad view of the implications of his (not yet established) subject. Together with the Kiel psychiatrist Hubert Speidel , he initiated the “project on the analysis of conditioning factors of postoperative psychopathological and neurological abnormalities in cardiac operations with extracorporeal circulation within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center 115”.

Honors

  • Dr. Martini Prize (1960)
  • Honorary member of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery
  • Honorary member of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons (1988)
  • Paul Morawitz Prize of the German Society for Cardiology (1989)
  • Symposia in the UKE for the 65th and 70th birthday

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ingelene Rodewald: Prof. Dr. med. Georg-Wilhelm Rodewald. Letters 1944 to 1970 . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2017.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: On the question of the enteral regeneration of Enterobius vermicularis with special consideration of the oxygen partial pressure in the intestinal wall for egg development .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: On the behavior of ventilation, circulation and gas exchange in lung patients before and during preoperative pulmonary artery blockage .
  4. ↑ DÄB 1991
  5. ^ A b Rüdiger Döhler, Heinz-Jürgen Schröder and Eike Sebastian Debus: Surgery in the north. For the 200th meeting of the Association of North German Surgeons in Hamburg 2017 . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2017, pp. 280–281.
  6. ^ Rodewald G: A cardiac surgeon's impressions of China . Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 27: 137-144 (1979)
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Teichmann, Christoph Eggers, Heinz-Jürgen Schröder (eds.): 100 Years Association of Northwest German Surgeons . Hamburg 2009, p. 331
  8. ↑ H. Speidel, G. Rodewald: Psychic and neurological dysfunction after open-heart surgery. First international symposium, Hamburg 1978 . Thieme, Stuttgart 1980.
  9. ↑ Hubert Speidel on his collaboration with Rodewald, in: Ingelene Rodewald (2017), pp. 119–120.
  10. ^ Paul Morawitz Prize
personal data
SURNAME Rodewald, Georg-Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon, pioneer of cardiac surgery in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1991
Place of death Hamburg