Georg Heberer

Georg Heberer, 1990

Georg Heberer (born June 9, 1920 in Dietzenbach ; † March 21, 1999 in Arosa ) was a German surgeon and university professor in Cologne and Munich . He was a pioneer in vascular and coronary surgery and made significant contributions to the standardization of lung surgery.

Life

Heberer attended secondary school in Offenbach am Main . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine from 1940 to 1945 at the Philipps University of Marburg , the Ludwigs University of Gießen , the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . He received his license to practice medicine and obtained his doctorate in Tübingen in 1945. He began his surgical training in 1948 with Rudolf Zenker at the Mannheim City Hospital . In 1951, Heberer joined Zenker at the Marburg University Clinic as senior physician. In 1953 he completed his habilitation. With him was senior physician, among others, Gerd Hegemann . In 1958 Heberer became a professor in Marburg.

Cologne

In 1959 he followed the call of the University of Cologne . He was director of the II. Surgical University Clinic in Cologne-Merheim . As an important contribution to clinical research, he set up the first German department for experimental surgery in Cologne . From 1963 to 1973 he was director of the I. Surgical University Clinic in Cologne-Lindenthal . In 1967/68 he was dean of the medical faculty. He made anesthesiology and urology independent . The Cologne students said goodbye to him in 1973 with a torchlight procession .

See also : Cologne City Clinics

Munich

In 1973 he succeeded his teacher Zenker as director of the surgical clinic in Munich's Nussbaumstrasse. In 1978 he moved to the Großhadern Clinic as professor of surgery and director of the surgical university clinic . In 1989 he retired . He was also honored with a torchlight procession. In recognition of his services, the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich annually awards the Georg Heberer Award from the Portland (Oregon) -based Chiles Foundation .

See also : Clinic of the University of Munich

retirement

He loved Graubünden and was often in Arosa in the last 25 years of his life. There he died unexpectedly while he was asleep at the age of 79, after skiing that morning. He was buried in the closest circle in the high mountain cemetery near the Bergkirchli . His colleague, the surgery professor Ernst Kern , who, like Heberer, worked for decades as editor of the journal Der Chirurg and with whom he had toured Bhutan in October 1998, spoke at the grave . At the academic memorial service in Munich on July 2, 1999, Friedrich-Wilhelm Schildberg , Klaus Peter , Albrecht Encke , Robert E. Hermann (Cleveland), Yoshio Mishima (Tokyo), Toshihiko Ban (Kyoto) and Hans-Jürgen Peiper spoke .

editor

For over 25 years he was editor of the magazine Der Chirurg . It became the world's second largest scientific publication for surgery.

Honors

• Elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1972)
• President of the German Society for Surgery (1980)
• Bavarian Order of Merit
• Honorary doctorate from the Georg-August University of Göttingen (1988)
• Honorary member
  • Austrian Society for Surgery
  • Bavarian Surgeons Association
  • Upper Austrian Medical Association Linz
  • Surgical Society of Columbia
  • American Surgical Association
  • American College of Surgeons
  • Spanish Surgeons Association
  • Association of Northwest German Surgeons
  • Association of Lower Rhine Westphalian Surgeons
  • Académie nationale de chirurgie, Paris
• Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• Max Lebsche Medal of the Bavarian Surgeons Association
• President of the German Society for Disaster Medicine (1983/84)
• Vice-President of the Societé Internationale de Chirurgie

literature

• In memoriam Georg Heberer 1920–1999 . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-922777-37-6 .

Web links

• Heberer, Georg. Hessian biography. (As of January 23, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Documents in the General Secretariat of the German Society for Surgery.
2. ↑ Dissertation: Pneumopericardium .
3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The anatomy of the bronchovascular lung segments and their surgical significance .
4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Peiper : The Zenker School . In: “Würzburger medical history reports” 11 (1993), pp. 371–387, here: pp. 378–387
5. ^ Georg Heberer Award. Retrieved October 15, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 83.
7. ↑ Ernst Kern: Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. 2000, p. 83.
8. ^ Member entry by Georg Heberer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 24, 2016.
9. ↑ Former Presidents. In: www.dgch.de. Retrieved October 16, 2016 .