Hans-Wilhelm Buchholz

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Hans-Wilhelm Buchholz (around 1970)

Hans-Wilhelm Buchholz (born December 4, 1910 in Glogau , † March 24, 2002 in Hamburg ) was a German surgeon . In 1975 he founded the ENDO-Klinik Hamburg , a special clinic for joint replacement .

Life

Buchholz studied medicine at the University of Jena , the Albertus University of Königsberg , the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster , the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin and the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf , where he passed the state examination.

He continued his education in internal medicine and radiology and was a military doctor in the Wehrmacht for six years . In 1946 he came to the Heidberg Hospital in Hamburg as an assistant doctor in the surgery department . In 1952 he was appointed chief physician of the 2nd surgical department of the St. Georg General Hospital . Buchholz promoted the use of central anesthesia close to the spinal cord and opened the first department for anesthesiology in Hamburg in this hospital . Buchholz had a major influence on the structure of trauma surgery in Hamburg; he introduced the AO procedure (Working Group on Osteosynthesis) in Hamburg. His pioneering work in this area led him to the problems of treating medial femoral neck fractures to joint endoprosthetics. In the early 1960s, after contacting John Charnley , Buchholz developed the first total hip joint replacement in Germany. Very soon he recognized the need for a knee joint endoprosthesis, which was developed under his direction by his senior physician Eckart Engelbrecht. Other artificial joints followed, such as the artificial shoulder joint, the artificial elbow joint and the upper ankle joint. Buchholz recognized the great importance of artificial joint replacement in medicine very early on, especially after the essential material problems of the socket and the prosthesis shaft as well as the bone cement had been solved.

At the end of the 1960s, he added antibiotics to the bone cement , thereby reducing the risk of infection during endoprosthesis surgery. The treatment of prosthesis infections with special antibiotics in the bone cement, which Buchholz was the first to describe, was of outstanding importance. He is therefore considered the pioneer of joint replacement surgery in Germany.

Gravestone “Professor Dr. Hans Wilhelm Buchholz ”, Ohlsdorf cemetery

In 1971 the Hamburg Senate awarded him the title of professor. In 1975 he received an honorary medical doctorate from the University of Hamburg . For many years Buchholz chaired the meetings of the Hamburg Society for Trauma Medicine. In 1976 he was chairman of the 118th meeting of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons in Hamburg.

In 1975 Buchholz retired and in the same year founded the ENDO clinic in Hamburg. It consisted of an acute clinic in Hamburg-Altona and a rehabilitation department in Wintermoor on the northwestern edge of the Lüneburg Heath . The septic endoprostheses were operated on there. Buchholz headed the ENDO-Klinik for almost 20 years and was chairman of the non-profit organization Endoklinik for just as long .

More than 100 scientific publications and a much larger number of lectures reflect the great commitment and creativity of Hans-Wilhelm Buchholz. His knee endoprosthesis did not prove itself.

Hans-Wilhelm Buchholz was buried in Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery in grid square Bg 63 (at the Seehof entrance ).

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