Hans Karl Weitzel

Hans Karl Weitzel , more commonly known as HK Weitzel or under the abbreviation HKW (born October 25, 1936 in Siegburg ), is a German doctor and specialist in gynecology and obstetrics .

Life

Weitzel graduated from high school in Waldbröl and studied from 1959 to 1966 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Philipps-Universität Marburg . In 1966 he married the physician Eva-Marie, nee Steinberg. In the same year he became a medical assistant in Remscheid and completed a part-time sports degree at the German Sport University in Cologne until 1962 .

As a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (DFG) he worked from 1968 to 1970 at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology with Klaus Rother . He then completed his specialist training with Ernst Jürgen Plotz at the University Women's Clinic in Bonn by 1974 and subsequent habilitation in 1975 . In 1976 he became senior physician at the gynecological clinic at the Hannover Medical School . In 1978 he was appointed a C 3 professor there for life. In 1982 he accepted the position as successor to Georg Hörman at the chair of gynecology and obstetrics at the Steglitz University Hospital of the Free University of Berlin (later Benjamin Franklin University Hospital - UKBF or Campus Benjamin Franklin - CBF) and became Vice Dean there in 1986 . The development focus of the clinic at that time was in the area of perinatal medicine .

From 1987 to 1988 he chaired the North German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics (NGGG), from 1989 to 1991 the Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology in Berlin (GGGB), where he played a key role in the merging of East and West German societies.

Awards

• Honorary membership of the North German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics (NGGG)
• Honorary membership of the Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology in Berlin (GGGB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas D. Ebert : Personal details: Hans Karl Weitzel on his 75th birthday ; in Berlin Doctors , Berlin Medical Association 12/2011, 2011, p. 29.