Hans-Georg Willert

Hans-Georg Willert (born September 24, 1934 in Greiz , Thuringia ; † September 25, 2006 in Göttingen ) was a German orthopedist and university professor.

Life

Willert studied medicine at the University of Leipzig , which made him a Dr. med. PhD . Moved from the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany , he completed his further training from 1960 in surgery , orthopedics and pathology at the Heidelberg University Hospital and Zurich University Hospital . His teachers were Fritz Linder , Kurt Lindemann and Karl Lennert in Heidelberg , and Erwin Uehlinger and Max René Francillon in Zurich . In 1969 he went to Wolfgang Heipertz as a senior physician at the Orthopedic University Clinic Friedrichsheim in Frankfurt am Main. There he completed his habilitation in 1972. Appointed professor , he headed the Department of Bone Pathology. In 1979 he followed the call of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen to the chair of orthopedics. For more than 20 years he was director of the orthopedic university clinic. In 2001 he retired .

His research activities focused on osteology , systemic bone diseases, bone tumors and, above all, biomaterial . Known worldwide made him his publications about tissue reactions to implants and their wear and abrasion . He is considered to be the first to describe the loosening of artificial joints through tissue reactions to particles of polymethyl methacrylate and polyethylene . They initiate osteolysis and thus the so-called implant failure. Inspired by Rüdiger Döhler , he devoted himself to metalless in his last years . With his wife Gisela Wetzel-Willert, he dealt with the importance of psychosomatics in orthopedics. With Ingeborg Lang, he set up the first endoprosthesis register , which (like all later ones) failed due to data collection , data protection , indifference and a lack of cooperation.

Willert's estate is located in the Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen .

Memberships

• International Society for Biomaterials
• International Skeletal Society
• International Hip Society

Honors

• Arthur Steindler Award from the Orthopedic Research Society (Chicago, 2006)

literature

• René Baumgartner : Prof. Dr. med. Hans-Georg Willert on his 70th birthday . Medical-Orthopedic Technology 124 (2004), p. 89.
• Prof. em. Dr. med. Hans-Georg Willert . Osteologie 15 (2006), p. 163.
• Siegfried Götte: Obituary Professor Dr. med. Hans-Georg Willert . Osteologie 15 (2006), pp. 243-244.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Georg Willert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Willert in the US National Library of Medicine
• Willert in WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: Mechanical trauma and growth acceleration of malignant tumors
2. ^ Habilitation thesis: Clinic and Pathology of Dysmelia
3. ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt (1993)
4. ↑ with Ingeborg Lang, in collaboration with the Kaiserin Friedrich Foundation for advanced medical training: Experience with the endoprosthesis register . Journal for Medical Training and Quality Assurance 95 (2001), p. 203; German Endoprosthesis Register e. V. (2003) ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 537 kB). 
5. ↑ Scientific papers in the Göttingen University Library (2007)