Hans Kraske

Hans Kraske (born February 11, 1893 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † August 10, 1976 there ) was a German surgeon.

Career

Kraske came as the eighth of ten children of the married couple Paul Kraske and Wally Kraske, nee. Kramer to the world. His father was appointed to the Freiburg chair for surgery in the 1880s . He grew up in a large house on Ludwigstrasse. After primary school he went to the humanistic Berthold-Gymnasium Freiburg and then moved to the Friedrich-Gymnasium Freiburg . In 1911 he took up an internship as a model carpenter, fitter, moulder and lathe operator at Escher-Wys in Ravensburg and from October 1912 did his military service as a one-year volunteer with the 76 Field Artillery Regiment in Freiburg. In October 1913 he enrolled at the Technical University of Dresden . When the First World War broke out , he was drafted and wounded early. He served until February 1919, most recently in the Air Force's technical staff. From the spring of 1919 he continued his studies at the TH Munich . On the advice of the Freiburg anatomist Franz Keibel , who teaches on his behalf in Munich , he switched to the medical faculty. He completed the physics course within twelve months . In May 1922 he passed the state examination in Freiburg.

He spent his assistant years at the Anatomical Institute in Freiburg with Eugen Fischer and at the Surgical Clinic with Erich Lexer , the successor to Kraske's father and a pioneer in the field of plastic surgery . When a second assistant doctor, Eduard Rehn , was appointed as Lexer's successor, Kraske turned to surgery and orthopedics . On August 31, 1926, he married Thea Gütermann from Gutach, sister of Erich Gütermann, whom Kraske had met during the war. The marriage had three children.

In 1932 he returned to Munich and worked at the private clinic Dr. Haas . When he had to emigrate in 1933, Kraske was offered his successor on condition that he would join the NSDAP . He refused and went back to Freiburg, where he set up a practice as a general practitioner and an orthopedic workshop on Ludwigstrasse. After their father's death, he and his siblings set up a sanatorium in the neighboring parental home. At the beginning of the Second World War , the sanatorium was confiscated and Hans Kraske was drafted into the Tübingen reserve hospital. From 1941 he was back in Freiburg and continued his work as a general practitioner. When Operation Tiger Fish in February 1944 practice and sanatorium were destroyed.

In the summer of 1945 the family moved to Emmendingen , where Hans Kraske had accepted the position of chief physician at the district hospital. In 1946 he was elected President of the Medical Association and after the merger of the Medical Associations in the French Occupation Zone to form the State Medical Association of South Baden, he was appointed its chairman. After the establishment of the Baden-Württemberg State Medical Association in 1956, Kraske remained President of what is now the District Medical Association of South Baden until 1966. He also taught at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

In 1960 he retired and moved back to Freiburg with his wife Thea, where he moved into a house on Hauptstrasse. There he died of carcinoma .

Honors

• December 1951: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Fonts

• Atrophic and hypertrophic sagging breasts and their operation. Dissertation, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1923

literature

• Who's Who in Germany. 1st edition, Intercontinental Book and Publishing Co. Ltd., R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1956, p. 662 ( excerpt )
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1966. 10th edition, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1966, p. 1277; 13th edition, 1980, ISBN 3-11-007434-6 , ISSN  0341-8049 , p. 4465 (in the Nekrolog)
• Alexandra Gütermann: The Gütermanns, a family story. Volume 2: The Third Generation. Part 1: Tribes Fanny, Carl, Julius. A. Gütermann, Gutach 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-035671-1 , p. 265