Gernot Feifel

Gernot Feifel (born September 4, 1935 in Rottweil ; † March 7, 2019 in Homburg ) was a C4 professor for general surgery , abdominal and vascular surgery at the Saarland University Hospital in Homburg.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1955 in Wangen im Allgäu , he began studying in Munich and Freiburg in 1955 . In 1971 he completed his habilitation at the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he then worked as a private lecturer . He was appointed associate professor in 1978 and C3 professor in 1980. On June 15, 1982, he accepted the call to the Saarland University Hospital , where he was director of the Department of General Surgery, Abdominal and Vascular Surgery at the Surgical University Clinic until his retirement in 2001. With Ulrich Hildebrandt he introduced endosonography of the rectum in Germany . In 1990/91 he was medical director of the university hospital. From 1992 to 1998 he was a member of the scientific commission of the Science Council . In 1992 he was one of the founders of the Saarland Surgeons Association. In 2006, his initiative “Teach the Teacher” received the State Prize for University Teachers from the Saarland Minister for Economics and Science . Feifel was married to Ulla Feifel, née Bachl, with whom he had three sons and a daughter. One son is the actor Martin Feifel , and one daughter-in-law is the opera singer Nathalie Stadler-Feifel .

An Atlas of Rectal Endosonography (With John Beynon, Ulrich Hildebrandt and Neil J.McC Mortensen), Springer-Verlag, London 1991, ISBN 978-0-387-19690-9 .
Endosonography in gastroenterology, gynecology and urology (With John Beynon) Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 1990, ISBN 978-3-642-74254-5 .
Special studies on the function of heart-lung machines at low temperatures, Freiburg 1962

personal data
SURNAME	Feifel, Gernot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 4, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rottweil
DATE OF DEATH	March 7, 2019
Place of death	Homburg