Gerhard Hotz

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Gerhard Hotz (born June 8, 1880 in Basel ; † June 4, 1926 there ) was a Swiss surgeon .

Gerhard Hotz-Fanconi (1880–1926) surgeon. Family grave: Hotz-Linder-Fanconi-Linder-Stückelberger. Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel
Family grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery

His father was the high school teacher Rudolf Hotz-Linder. Hotz was an excellent student (Primus), was interested in natural sciences and studied medicine in Basel from 1899 to 1905 (and one semester in Berlin). In his dissertation he dealt with metabolic studies. In 1905 he became an assistant doctor at the surgical clinic in Basel with Eugen Enderlen , who took him with him when he moved to Würzburg in 1907.

In 1909 he completed his habilitation in Würzburg and in 1911 became associate professor. He wanted to continue his surgical training in Chicago, but in 1912 he was offered a position as senior physician at the Evangelical Deaconess House in Freiburg im Breisgau, combined with an extraordinary professorship at the University of Freiburg. He also stayed in Freiburg during the First World War (with the permission of the Swiss Chief Medical Officer) when his hospital was converted into a military hospital . He also gained experience with war injuries such as traumatic encephalomalacia .

When Freiburg was also bombed (the anatomical institute adjacent to his house was burned down by aerial bombs in 1917), he accepted a call to Basel in November 1918 as professor of surgery and director of the surgical clinic, succeeding Fritz de Quervain .

Hotz was on the Medical Commission and the Commission of the Marcel Benoit Foundation , but declined to join the Grand Council of Basel. He worked on Volume 6 of the first edition of the Handbook of Internal Medicine .

Hotz had been operated on for stomach ulcers in 1914 and 1918 and was aware of the constant danger. He finally died in 1926 of a perforation in the stomach that occurred on a business trip to Vienna.

Hotz was married to Orsolina Fanconi and had six children. Gerhard Hotz found his final resting place in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery in Basel.

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SURNAME Hotz, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1926
Place of death Basel