Gert Dieckmann

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Gert Dieckmann (born December 19, 1925 in Bochum ; † 2007 ) was a German neurosurgeon .

Life

Gert Dieckmann studied medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1954 he was in Freiburg with a dissertation on the histological detection of glycogen in nerve cells of the central nervous system doctorate and was then Assistant Professor at Traugott Riechert (1905-1983). In 1958 he followed Rolf Hassler (1914–1984), former head of the Max Planck Institute for Neurology in Freiburg, to the neuroanatomical department of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main. Both worked closely with Friedrich Loew in Homburg . 1969 qualified as a professorhe settled in Homburg and shortly thereafter received a call to the chair for stereotactic neurosurgery at the Saarland University Hospital in Homburg. Until 1980 he was head of the stereotaxic department in Homburg, the first such department at a hospital.

In 1980 he moved to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and took over the chair for psychosurgery . In addition, from 1980 to 1991 he was director of the department for functional and stereotactic neurosurgery at Göttingen University Hospital.

Gert Dieckmann worked intensively on stereotactic neurosurgery , in particular Parkinson's disease and other mental illnesses. He was considered an important physician in the field of stereotactic brain surgery.

He was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Ripuaria Freiburg im Breisgau in the CV .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Constanze Hasselmann: Friedrich Loew: Vita of a German neurosurgeon. Dissertation. University of Lübeck, 2005, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 841-20061215570
  2. ↑ Hansotto Reiber: From Lichtenberg's "Ghost" to the emergence of quality. (PDF; 553 kB) Lichtenberg Yearbook 2008, accessed on October 6, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Dieckmann, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurosurgeon
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH 2007