Heinrich Klose (surgeon)

Heinrich Klose (1937)

Heinrich Klose (born August 31, 1879 in Ibbenbüren , † November 19, 1968 in Bad Eilsen ) was a German surgeon and university professor. He is one of the founders of the Gdansk Medical Academy.

Life

As the son of a railway official, Klose attended the Evangelisch Stiftische Gymnasium Gütersloh . After graduating from high school, he studied human medicine at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1898 . There he became a member of the Association of German Student Associations . After completing his physics course , he moved to the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg . Bernhard Naunyn and Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen were among his teachers . In 1903 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He received his surgical training in Frankfurt am Main from Ludwig Rehn and Victor Schmieden . During the First World War he served as a medical officer and head of a medical company. In 1916 he completed his habilitation with Ludwig Rehn. On August 1, 1918, he married the banker's daughter Clara Roger (1892–1979) in Frankfurt . She gave him two sons and a daughter.

As the successor to Arthur Barth , he became chief physician of the surgical clinic at the City Hospital of the Free City of Danzig in 1924 . The clinic had 400 beds. In 1929 he headed the 38th meeting of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons in Danzig . In 1938 he operated in Moscow Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin . As a good violinist and enthusiast of the carpentry trade , he flew to Mittenwald in 1938 to be instructed in violin making by Johann Reiter . Visitors to the Klose House included Carl Jacob Burckhardt , Heinrich Sahm , Elly Ney , Edwin Fischer and Bronisław Huberman . The family often stayed at Gut Sartowitz , where they met Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld and Helmut Schön . Klose, who had been a university professor at "his" Medical Academy in Gdansk since 1940 , was proficient in "all of surgery" and was particularly committed to urology . His book on goitre surgery was standard literature. He remained at his post in Gdansk until June 1945. From 1935 to 1945 he was an advisory surgeon in the Wehrmacht .

He went to East Berlin in 1945 and worked for a year at the Hufeland Hospital in Berlin-Buch . In 1946/47 he was chief physician at the Martin Luther Hospital. From 1948 to 1960 he was Medical Director of the Friedrichshain Clinic . He managed to resume and expand the hospital's operations. He devoted himself to educational issues and wrote many medical-philosophical articles. His idealistic professional approach is reflected in his 1955 book Doctor, Nature and Art .

As an appointed member of the Berlin People's Representation, he was elected on February 13, 1953 at the constituent meeting of the People's Representation as a member of the Magistrate of Berlin under Lord Mayor Friedrich Ebert junior . As a long-time member of the magistrate, he played a key role in building up the Berlin health system. In October 1954 he was elected to the Berlin city council, of which he was age president until 1958.

He gave up the directorate in Friedrichshain at the end of his 81st year.

Honors

Klose in Berlin

• Iron Cross 1st class
• Danzig Cross (August 31, 1939, 60th birthday)
• Honored Doctor of the People (1949)
• Member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1951)
• Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin (1953)
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1954)
• Hero of Labor (1959)

Fonts

• with Heinrich Vogt : Clinic and Biology of the Thymus Gland with special consideration of its relationship to the bone and nervous system. Laupp, Tübingen 1910.
• Surgery of the thymus gland (= New German surgery, Vol. 3). Enke, Stuttgart 1912.
• The surgery of Basedow's disease (= New German surgery, Vol. 44). Enke, Stuttgart 1929.
• Doctor, nature and art (= collection of informal treatises from the field of surgery, vol. 6). Marhold, Halle (Saale) 1955.
• (Editor, with others) Special trauma surgery. First aid and early complications (= The Surgery of Trauma, Vol. 2). Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1956.

literature

• Arthur Hübner (Ed.): Surgeons Directory , 4th Edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1958, p. 424.
• Rüdiger Döhler , Thaddäus Zajaczkowski : Spirit and craft - the surgeon Heinrich Klose . Der Chirurg 87 (2016), pp. 614-618, doi: 10.1007 / s00104-016-0201-6 .
• Rüdiger Döhler , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder and Eike Sebastian Debus : Surgery in the North. For the 200th meeting of the Association of North German Surgeons in Hamburg 2017 . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-942825-67-2 , pp. 172-173.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Klose in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: On the scarlet fever in children with a special focus on fever
2. ↑ H. Klose: experiences about isolated kidney gunshot injuries . Medical Clinic 21 (1917), p. 576
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Th. Zajaczkowski: Remembering Heinrich Klose (1879–1968). First Professor of Academic Surgery in Gdansk. In: European Urology . Vol. 21 (2009), no. 5, p. 24 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this notice. ). 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Herbert Mitzka: Prof. Dr. med. habil. Heinrich Klose 1879–1968. Portrait of a German surgeon. Klose, Bensheim-Auerbach 1987.
5. ^ A. Schmidt: The surgical department of the city hospital in Danzig . German journal for surgery 166 (1921), pp. 1-9
6. ↑ Wolfgang Teichmann , Christoph Eggers , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder : 100 Years Association of Northwest German Surgeons . Hamburg 2009
7. ↑ People's representative elected magistrate . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 14, 1953, p. 1.
8. ↑ Age President Professor Dr. Heinrich Klose : In: Neues Deutschland , November 16, 1954, p. 6.
9. ^ H. Klose: life balance. Memories of a surgeon who worked in Gdansk for more than twenty years .