Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp

Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp (born June 3, 1895 in Bonndorf in the Black Forest ; † May 2, 1974 in Dottingen ) was a German surgeon and medical officer ( general doctor ).

Life

After the end of the First World War , Bürkle de la Camp studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg and Leipzig . After the state examination and doctorate , he worked at the Freiburg Pathological Institute under Ludwig Aschoff , and later at the local surgical clinic. 1929 habilitation , Bürkle de la Camp in Munich with the habilitation "to pathology and surgery of peptic damage to the gastrointestinal tract." In 1931 he developed an apparatus for easier blood transfusion . In 1933 he was also appointed associate professor for surgery .

A little later he switched to the surgical clinic and polyclinic of the professional association hospital "Bergmannsheil" in Bochum as chief physician . He stayed at the Bochum clinic until 1962. In 1933 or 1935 he became associate professor for trauma surgery at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf .

On May 1, 1937, Bürkle de la Camp joined the NSDAP ( membership number 5,297,899). During the Second World War he served as a doctor general. After the end of the war , statements were made in defense of Karl Gebhardt and Oskar Schröder , both indicted in the Nuremberg medical trial. In 1950 or 1960 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1952 he looked after the seriously ill General Field Marshal Albert Kesselring after his release from prison. In 1954 Bürkle de la Camp became President of the German Society for Surgery (DGCH), and he was also chairman of the German Society for Trauma Surgery (DGU). From 1963 Bürkle de la Camp was represented on the advisory board for the sanitary and health service of the Federal Minister of Defense .

The Association of Northwest German Surgeons elected him an honorary member. In his honor, the German Armed Forces awarded the Heinrich-Bürkle-de-la-Camp Medal for services to medicine , and the square in front of the Bergmannsheil Clinic in Bochum is also named after him.

Heinz Bürkle married Oda de la Camp in 1920. He took her name. His wife Oda was the daughter of the radiologist and internist Oskar de la Camp .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: without the page title of the dead link )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 83.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Short biography with Klaus Dörner (Ed.): The Nürnberger Ärzteprocess 1946/47. Verbal transcripts, prosecution and defense material, sources on the environment. Indexing volume , Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-32028-0 , p. 85
4. ↑ the statements in English translation at the Nuremberg Trials Project ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
5. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: without page title )
6. ↑ On the history of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons, 125th conference, 12. – 14. June 1980 , p. 24.
7. ^ Bundeswehr Medical Service ( Memento from April 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Hildegard von Marchtaler : German gender book . Hamburg gender book (12th vol.). tape 171 . Starke, Limburg 1975, p. 146 .