Heinz Rockstroh

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Heinz Rockstroh (born October 15, 1920 in Aue in the Ore Mountains , † March 10, 1987 in Bad Homburg in front of the height) was a German urologist and university professor. He became famous for having performed the first kidney transplant in what was then the GDR in 1966 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1939, he studied medicine from 1940 to 1945 at the Military Medical Academy in Berlin with guest semesters in Leipzig , Strasbourg , Breslau , Hamburg and Tübingen . In 1944 he married Gerda Vesper, from this marriage there are three sons. He passed the state examination in Hamburg in 1945, followed by a doctorate in Tübingen.

In the post-war period he worked as an assistant doctor from 1946 and from 1951, after completing his surgical specialist examination, as a senior physician at the Aue District Hospital. In 1957 he moved to the surgical clinic at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, headed by Franz Mörl , as a senior physician . As early as 1958 he became a specialist in urology, in 1959 he began to set up the kidney center in Halle / Saale and introduced the treatment of acute kidney failure with the " artificial kidney ". Rockstroh completed his habilitation in 1962 on the subject of “The fate of the single kidney” and in 1963 became a lecturer in the field of surgery / urology.

After studying in London and Leeds, he and his team successfully transplanted the first kidney in the GDR on April 25, 1966. It was a living donation from a mother to her son. The recipient of the organ survived the procedure for 14 days. Back then, there were no drugs that could prevent rejection.

In 1967 he was appointed professor with teaching assignment, in 1969 as full professor with chair and in 1968 he was elected chairman of the newly founded "Society for Urology of the GDR".

The 1970 “10. Conference of the Urologists of the GDR ”was significant for the history of urology insofar as it was held for the first time together with the“ Society for Nephrology ”. This close specialist cooperation then radiated to the professorships for urology, which were gradually established in the following years, with the associated urological departments and clinics, which had been established at 9 medical faculties at universities and medical academies. In addition, independent urological departments were gradually set up in all 15 district hospitals. This also firmly established the specialist field in research, student training and general urological care.

From 1979 he was director of the clinic and polyclinic for urology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. In 1982 he was forcibly retired after violent arguments with SED officials . 1985 moved to his sons in the Federal Republic of Germany . In 1987 he died in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe.

His work received a late recognition at the celebration of the 2000th kidney transplant at the Martin Luther University Halle under the direction of Paolo Fornara, Director of the University Clinic and Polyclinic for Urology and the Kidney Transplant Center.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniela Kainz: Kidney transplant - son survived the operation for only 14 days. mz-web.de (Mitteldeutsche Zeitung), May 7, 2004 (accessed May 12, 2018)
  2. ^ University Hospital Halle (Saale): Special anniversary: ​​Hallesche transplanteurs transplant 2000. Kidney. Retrieved on May 8, 2018 (German).

literature

  • Halling, Thorsten, Moll, Friedrich, Fangerau, Heiner (eds.): Urology 1945–1990. Development and networking of medicine in both German states. Springer, 2015. ISBN 978-3-662-48178-3

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personal data
SURNAME Rock straw, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German urologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Aue (Saxony)
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1987
Place of death bad Homburg