Hans Doerfler

Hans Doerfler (born April 15, 1863 in Markt Berolzheim ; † May 9, 1942 in Weißenburg in Bavaria ) was a German internist, surgeon and gynecologist. He is considered a pioneer of surgery in Bavaria , was a secret medical council and from 1884 chief physician at the Weißenburg hospital. Like his father and brother Theodor Doerfler , he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity during his studies in Erlangen in the winter semester of 1880/81 . He was declared an honorary citizen of Weißenburg in 1928. The Horst Wessel song referred to the Privy and chief physician at Easter 1933 as a "damn song". Until 1933 he was a board member of the business committee of the German Medical Association and in 1934 first chairman of the German Association for Medical Missions. The village villa was named after him. As a regular contributor, he wrote articles for the Munich medical weekly . One of his descendants is Walter Doerfler , a geneticist and virologist .

Publications (selection)

For the practice. Tried and tested from the fields of internal, surgical and gynecological medicine. JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1934.

Individual evidence

↑ Life dates are on the bust created by Karl Hemmeter in the Weißenburger Kreisklinikum

↑ 500 years of history of the Weissenburg Clinic

↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 240.

↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 202.

^ Doerflervilla - Weißenburg in the 19th century.

↑ Hermann Kerschensteiner on For Practice. In: Reichsärztekammer (Hrsg.): Guidelines for termination of pregnancy and sterility for health reasons. Edited by Hans Stadler. J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1936, p. 186.

personal data
SURNAME	Doerfler, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH	April 15, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berolzheim market
DATE OF DEATH	May 9, 1942
Place of death	Weißenburg in Bavaria

[1] Life dates are on the bust created by Karl Hemmeter in the Weißenburger Kreisklinikum

[2] 500 years of history of the Weissenburg Clinic

[3] Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 240.

[4] Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 202.

[5] Doerflervilla - Weißenburg in the 19th century.

[6] Hermann Kerschensteiner on For Practice. In: Reichsärztekammer (Hrsg.): Guidelines for termination of pregnancy and sterility for health reasons. Edited by Hans Stadler. J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1936, p. 186.