Georg Magnus

Georg Magnus (born July 28, 1883 in Berlin , † December 22, 1942 in Munich ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

Magnus' father was Hugo Magnus, respected for his Ovid research . The ancestors were Protestant pastors in Niederlausitz . Georg Magnus studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel , the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Universität Greifswald . After serving in the Imperial Navy , he traveled to North and South America as a ship's doctor . After a short assistantship in Görlitz and Dresden , he came to Marburg to Paul Leopold Friedrich , who had a lasting influence on Magnus through his experimental work on the early excision of infected wounds . After that, Magnus went to his friend Fritz King , in which he was in 1913 for surgery habilitated .

After the First World War he became an associate professor in Marburg. In 1920 he went with Nicolai Guleke to the University of Jena , where he worked until 1924 as an associate professor and senior physician in the surgical clinic. In September 1916, Emil von Behring had complications after an insignificant operation . In 1925 Magnus went to Bochum as chief physician at the Bergmannsheil hospital . The work on this first European accident hospital determined his future life. Soon Magnus was regarded as an authority on the entire field of trauma surgery and appraisal . He also taught as an honorary professor at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf .

When he was appointed to the Charité for the retired August Bier on November 17, 1933 - probably at the express request of Adolf Hitler - he brought his senior physician Paul Rostock , assistants Hanskarl von Hasselbach and Karl Brandt with him from Bochum . In 1935 Magnus became President of the German Society for Surgery . In autumn 1936 he followed Erich Lexer as a professor in Munich. Considered a trauma surgeon in the treatment of spinal injuries, he and Karl Brandt were sent to Paris in November 1938 to see the shot Ernst Eduard vom Rath . From 1936 to 1942 he was an advisory surgeon in the Wehrmacht . From 1937 to 1941 he was a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society . In 1939 he headed the last pre-war conference of the Bavarian Surgeons Association . In 1942 he was accepted as a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Magnus wrote more than 150 scientific papers.

He was married to Frances Magnus . A daughter was born on March 28, 1917.

with Fritz König: Handbook of the entire trauma medicine , 4 volumes. Stuttgart 1932-1934.

Benno Romeis : Obituary . In: Meeting reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Mathematical and Natural Science Class (1944), p. 347.

^ Heinz Zeiss, Richard Bieling: Behring. Shape and work . 2nd Edition. Schultz, Berlin 1941, p. 546 (Magnus describes his memories of Emil von Behring here).

personal data
SURNAME	Magnus, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 28, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	December 22, 1942
Place of death	Munich