Hans-Werner Rautenburg

Hans-Werner Rautenburg (born July 10, 1924 in Berlin ; † August 26, 2013 ) was a German doctor and university professor.

Life

Rautenburg studied medicine in Berlin and Prague and received his PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin. med. PhD. After initial professional experience at the Institute for Medicine and Biology of the German Academy of Sciences, he came to the University Children's Hospital of the Charité in Berlin. He later followed its director Hartmut Dost to the children's clinic at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , where he set up a department for the examination and treatment of children with heart disease. In 1965 he completed his habilitation in Gießen for pediatrics. The focus of his research was rheumatic carditis, the diagnosis of congenital heart defects and phonocardiographic examinations. In 1968 Rautenburg was appointed Scientific Councilor and Professor. He later became managing director of the Center for Pediatrics. Under his direction, the first infant heart transplant in Germany was carried out in Giessen. At the end of 1989 he retired.

Rautenburg was a board member and honorary member of the German Society for Pediatric Cardiology.

literature

• Obituary in: uniforum. Justus Liebig University Gießen newspaper 4/2013, p. 12