Gustav Mandry (surgeon)

Gustav Mandry (born September 5, 1863 in Tübingen , † March 14, 1949 in Stuttgart ) was a German surgeon. He headed the municipal hospital in Heilbronn from 1894 to 1930 and was chairman of the state medical committee of Württemberg from 1909 to 1920.

Life

He was the eldest son of the lawyer Gustav von Mandry and attended grammar school in Tübingen, where he studied medicine as a one-year volunteer from 1882 after military service . In the winter semester 1881/82 he became a member of the student association AV Igel Tübingen . He moved with his family to Berlin while still studying. From 1888 to 1893 he was an assistant doctor in Cologne, Halle, Tübingen and Basel before settling in Heilbronn as a surgeon and gynecologist in 1893 and thus one of the first specialists. After Paul Mayer, Robert Mayer's son , resigned in 1894, he switched to the vacant position as chief physician of the surgical department and head of the Heilbronn hospital, which developed very positively under his leadership. In 1906 he was accepted into the Gräßle Society . From 1909 to 1920 he headed the State Medical Committee, the forerunner of the Medical Association. During the First World War he was temporarily head of a field hospital , for whose successful retreat under shell fire he was awarded the Iron Cross . One of the great dramas of his life was the death of his brother Karl Mandry during his treatment in 1926. In 1930 he retired due to age and moved to Stuttgart, where he was a member of the Monday Society . After the outbreak of the Second World War he worked as a volunteer surgeon in the Wilhelmsspital in Stuttgart. Due to the war, Mandry and his wife then planned to move from Stuttgart to Heilbronn in autumn 1944, where they initially stayed with friends on Bergstrasse, where they survived the air raid of December 4, 1944 . Since there was no move to Heilbronn after the destruction of Heilbronn, the Mandry couple went to the hospital in Kressbronn on Lake Constance , where they saw the end of the war. Then Mandry lived again in Stuttgart. He was the oldest participant in the 51st German Medical Congress in Stuttgart in 1948. In Heilbronn, Mandrystraße was named after him in 1948 .

literature

• Wilhelm Steinhilber : Gustav Mandry and his time. In: Swabia and Franconia. 4 and 5, 1963.
• Walter Hirschmann: Gustav Mandry. In: Maria Magdalena Rückert (Ed.): Württembergische biographies including Hohenzollern personalities. Volume II. On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021530-6 , pp. 185-187.