Hans von Seemen

Hans von Seemen (born February 15, 1898 in Colmar , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , † July 13, 1972 in Munich ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

As the son of a doctor of chemistry, Hans von Seemen passed his Abitur in Zurich in 1916. He studied medicine at the University of Zurich and the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . After passing the state examination in 1924, he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. First he was assistant to Otto Naegeli at the Medical University Clinic in Zurich . From 1925 he was in the Freiburg surgery with Erich Lexer . With him he went in 1928 as a senior physician at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1930 he qualified as a professor for surgery . After four years as a private lecturer , he was appointed associate professor in 1934. From 1939 he was a full professor and head of the surgical clinic at the University of Graz . In 1944/45 he was on the chair at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald . As a medical officer, he was a consulting surgeon at Military District Command 2 in Greifswald. He was a candidate for the National Socialist German Medical Association and a doctor of excommunication for the Hitler Youth in the highland camp . He was not a member of the NSDAP. In 1947 he took over the construction of the municipal surgical hospital in Munich-North. Two years later it was put into operation under his direction. In 1960 he moved as chief physician of the renovated and modernized surgical department at the Schwabing Clinic . He stayed there until he left active service on March 1, 1963.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans von Seemen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Surgery and tissue protection , part 1: About regeneration, surgical technique, surgical incisions .
2. ^ Karl Philipp Behrendt: The war surgery from 1939-1945 from the point of view of the consulting surgeon of the German army in the Second World War. (PDF; 2.3 MB) Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2013, accessed on July 5, 2019 (inaugural dissertation).