Gert Specht

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Gert Specht (born July 7, 1925 in Kiel ; † December 3, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German surgeon .

Life

Specht attended the Fridericianum Gymnasium in Erlangen after his father Fritz Specht joined the Erlangen chair for ear, nose and throat medicine in 1934. In the spring of 1943 Gert Specht was drafted into the army (Wehrmacht) . Seriously wounded, he was taken prisoner of war in Russia in April 1945 . From 1948 to 1954 he studied at the University of Kiel . Immediately after the state examination, he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. Since the compulsory assistants in Kiel received no wages, he went to Hamburg, where the young colleagues had started to be given a small grant. For nine months he was with Arthur Jores in the 2nd Medical Clinic in the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . There he met the student nurse Marianne Masekowsky. In 1955 he married her. As prescribed for compulsory assistants in Schleswig-Holstein, he worked for three months in a rural practice. After he had been at the Hamburg harbor hospital in 1955/56 , he went to the district hospital in Otterndorf in June 1956 . Surgery and gynecology were carried out there under the direction of Erich Staudt . Specht twice brought newborn babies with malformations to Fritz Rehbein in Bremen. There he was able to watch their operative care.

Hamburg and Lübeck

Encouraged by this, he went to the Altona Children's Hospital in 1958 , which at the time had 400 beds. Specht was soon the first assistant responsible for the 90 surgical beds under Horst Knuth . He spent the full annual vacation with Fritz Rehbein in Bremen. He spent the compulsory year in internal medicine in 1959/60 with Klaus Hoffmann at the Hamburg hospital in Wintermoor . For the many tuberculosis sufferers , the house had become a lung clinic with 600 beds (100 for children) after the war. Friedrich Lichtenauer from AK Harburg came to Wintermoor once or twice a week to operate on children with lung disease. Woodpecker helped him. He gave up plans to work as a country doctor and accepted Lichtenauer's invitation to Harburg. On September 1, 1960, he began serving at the prestigious Harburg Clinic for eleven years. He operated in general surgery, trauma surgery and urology. Specialist in surgery since 1962, after three years he was allowed to perform the first lung operation and was soon allowed to operate on Wintermoor. In 1964 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. At the end of 1968 he was asked by the Lübeck Medical Academy to help Helmut Remé set up thoracic surgery . At the same time, he should be at the side of advanced assistant doctors with major abdominal surgery and take over the functional treatment of the humerus fractures (Poelchen, Specht). For this he was given leave of absence from Harburg for two years. However, after Lichtenauer had a fatal accident in October 1969, Specht had to temporarily run the Harburg clinic and limit its activities in Lübeck. The cooperation with Lichtenauer's successor Volker Bay was very good in 1970/71 . In 1970 Specht completed his habilitation in Lübeck.

Berlin

As the successor to Richard Maatz , he became head of the Auguste Viktoria Hospital in Berlin-Schöneberg in October 1971 . He had to drive to Lübeck one day a week for another year: After the early visit to Berlin with British Airways from Tempelhof to Hamburg, with the rental car to Lübeck, after two to three hours back to Berlin for an X-ray meeting. During his time as Medical Director (1972–1976) the house received a new operating wing. This suited Specht with his inclination towards architecture and hospital construction. In 1976 he ensured the continued existence of the Berlin Surgical Society . Appointed associate professor in 1978 , Specht often attended the surgeons' conferences in East Berlin - out of consideration for his colleagues incognito. In 1981 he headed the 127th meeting of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons in West Berlin . From 1982 to 1984 he was a member of the executive committee of the German Society for Accident Medicine . From 1986 to 1989 he was a member of the Presidium of the German Society for Surgery . 1986/87 and 1990–1992 he was again chairman of the Berlin Surgical Society. As a result of the merger, it had more than 1,000 members. After Werner Körte and Ferdinand Sauerbruch , Specht was only the third honorary chairman of the oldest surgeons' association in Germany. In November 1989, at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall , Specht retired.

Private

The couple had two daughters and two sons, one of whom was killed while surfing in the Mediterranean.

Significantly impaired by a stroke , Specht last lived with his wife in a Zehlendorf retirement home.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of Gert Specht , FAZ from December 22, 2018
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Comparative Studies on the Effect of Antihistamines and Other Substances on Head's Zones A contribution to the pathophysiology of transferred pain .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The extended mediastinoscopy, a surgical-biopsy method for the exploration of the mediastinal space, presented in 1650 own investigations .
  4. ↑ Berliner Ärzteblatt , Volume 103, April 2, 1990, p. 251.
  5. ↑ For the East Berlin colleagues, Specht was the "head of the MAD", the medical shielding service.
personal data
SURNAME Woodpecker, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 2018
Place of death Berlin