Georg Axhausen

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Georg Axhausen (born March 24, 1877 in Landsberg an der Warthe , † January 19, 1960 in Berlin ) was a German oral surgeon .

Life

Axhausen studied from 1895 to 1901 at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Akademie for the military medical education medicine. In 1902 he was at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin to Dr. med. PhD. After a stint at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , he worked at the Charité Surgical Clinic from 1908 . In 1928 he took over surgery at the Berlin Dental University Institute, where he founded the maxillofacial clinic, and helped establish maxillofacial surgery as an independent subject. With his work in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery , especially on the cleft palate , he became the leading oral surgeon of his time. In 1939 he left at his own request and at the beginning of the war he was employed as a colonel doctor in a special hospital. He is said to have given health problems as the reason for his resignation in 1939. According to his Kiel colleague (and former student) Heinrich Hammer, he had made himself unpopular with the rulers, whereupon he was denied promotions. In fact, his role in the Third Reich was not free from ambivalences, but by 1938 at the latest he had become increasingly distanced from the rulers of the Nazi state. In May 1938 he expressed his opinion that, with the exception of the double-sided, continuous cleft lip and palate, the other forms of the cleft palate should be assessed as slight malformations in view of the excellent treatment success, which do not meet the conditions required by the law (for the prevention of hereditary offspring) . After Axhausen had been appointed head of the academy for advanced dental training and the compulsory training of German statutory dentists in January 1939 by the Reichszahnärzteführer Stuck, he held his farewell lecture on February 20, 1939. Here he explains that the elaboration of effective methods for palatal and lip plasty has led to such mass access to fissured children that the number of beds had to be increased again and again, but that this circumstance did not run parallel to the hiring of assistants; the requested positions were not filled. The responsibility in addition to the overwhelming operational burden, the nerve-wracking medical service “requires a resilient young nervous system. When the natural weakening of nerve forces occurs, it is time to put the heavy burden on younger shoulders. "

From 1946 he resumed his work at the dental clinic. Relieved due to "political harmlessness", he took over the surgical department and the maxillofacial clinic as managing director. At the age of 73 he retired in 1950. Arranging the succession turned out to be difficult. Heinrich Hammer was talking for a while, but he declined an offer. The university management preferred Michael Arnaudow, to whom it temporarily transferred the management. “He's not even qualified as a professor,” wrote Axhausen to his favorite Wolfgang Rosenthal , “... but he is close to the Russians and thus to the current leadership class.” Finally, Arnaudow also refused and cleared the way for Rosenthal. In 1950 Ewald Harndt followed in the office of managing director , who, however, like H. Kirsten and Axhausen's senior physician Hans Joachim Schmidt, resigned his employment with the university for political reasons (east-west conflict). Axhausen was married to Charlotte geb. Frosch, the daughter of the Koch student Paul Frosch .

Fonts

  • Surgical exercises on the human corpse and on the dog (= Lehmann's medical atlases. Vol. 13). Lehmann, Munich 1919; 2nd edition 1930.
  • The Beginner's Surgery: Lectures on Surgical Propaedeutics. Springer, Berlin 1923, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-99690-0 .
  • Contributions to oral and maxillofacial surgery (= German dentistry. H. 82). Thieme, Leipzig 1932.
  • Technique and results of palatal plastic surgery. Thieme, Leipzig 1936.
  • The treatment of war wounds in the jaw and face area , ed. on behalf of the German Dental Association. Lehmann, Munich 1940; 2nd, improved edition 1941.
  • General surgery in dentistry, oral medicine and maxillofacial medicine (= Lehmann's dental textbooks. Vol. 6). Lehmann, Munich 1940; 4th edition: Hanser, Munich 1949.
  • Technique and results of lip plastic surgery. Thieme, Leipzig 1941.
  • Guide to Dental Surgery: Introduction to Clinical Dentistry for Students of Medicine and Dentistry in 16 Lectures. Hanser, Munich 1950.
  • The forms of spread of the odontogenic pyogenic infection and their treatment (= dentistry in individual illustrations. Part 7). Hanser, Munich 1951.
  • Technique and results of the split sculptures. Hanser, Munich 1952.

Awards

  • 1948: Dr. med. hc from the University of Kiel.
  • 1950: Dr. hc from the University of Buenos Aires.
  • 1952: Honorary member of the German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine.
  • 1957: Federal Cross of Merit, First Class

literature

  • Renate Bauer: The importance of Georg Axhausen for the development of maxillofacial surgery . Inaugural dissertation at Charité Humboldt University, Berlin 1967.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Antiseptics or Aseptics in the Field?
  2. ↑ Dominik Gross: Georg Axhausen - first describer of aseptic necrosis IN Zahnärztliche Mitteilungen 108: No. 5 (March 1, 2018) p. 46 f.
  3. ^ Heinrich Hammer: Georg Axhausen , German Dental Journal 3 (October 1948) 745 f.
  4. ^ Heinrich Hammer: Professor Dr. Georg Axhausen on his 75th birthday , German Dental Journal 7 (March 1952) 297 f.
  5. ^ Theo Spreter von Kreudenstein : Report on the conference of the working group for maxillofacial surgery on May 14th and 15th, 1938 , Zahnärztliche Mitteilungen 29 (1938) p.431 f.
  6. ↑ Prof. Axhausen Head of the Academy for Dental Training and the Compulsory Training of German Statutory Dentists, Zahnärztliche Mitteilungen 30 (1939) p.6; he gave up this position in April 1941: Zahnärztliche Mitteilungen 32 (1941) p.199
  7. ^ Professor Axhausen gave his farewell lecture , Zahnärztliche Mitteilungen 30 (1939) 166 f.
  8. ^ Honorary doctorate from Kiel University for Prof. Axhausen . Dental Rundschau 57:20 (1948) 323
  9. ↑ University News . German dentist Magazine 3 (1948) 503
  10. ↑ University News . German dentist Magazine 4 (1949) 409
  11. ^ Burkard Georg Christopüh Müller: Wolfgang Rosenthal (1882–1971). Life and work with special consideration of the years 1930 to 1960. Inaug.-Diss. Giessen 1992.
  12. ^ F. Blankenstein: 110 Years of the Dental Institute Berlin, 1884-1994. Festschrift . Quintessenz, Berlin 1994
  13. ^ University and daily news , Zahnärztliche Rundschau 59 (December 1950) p.391
  14. ^ University news . Honorary doctorate from the University of Kiel for Prof. Axhausen . Dental Rundschau 57: No 20 (1948) 323
  15. ↑ University News . German dentist Magazine 5 (1950) 1155
  16. ↑ 80th conference for dentistry, oral medicine and maxillofacial medicine from September 11 to 14, 1952 . Dental World 7 (1952) 456
  17. ↑ Personnel . Dental Practice 8: No 16 (August 15, 1957) p.11
personal data
SURNAME Axhausen, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oral surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg on the Warta
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1960
Place of death Berlin