Heinz Wagner (doctor)

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Heinz Wagner (born December 7, 1929 in Kronstadt , Transylvania , † November 1, 2001 ) was a German orthopedist and university professor.

Life

When he was 15, Wagner was still deployed on the Eastern Front. After Germans fled and expelled from Central and Eastern Europe in 1945–1950 , he earned his living in school and university as a tractor driver, machine fitter and crane operator. When he at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Medicine studied, he was a substitute teacher in the anatomy where he spent the first years after graduation. In 1954 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He completed his training to become a specialist in orthopedics in the pathology department of the University Hospital Erlangen , in the Orthopedic Clinic in Eisenberg (Thuringia) with Joachim Langhagel , in the University Hospital in Heidelberg with Kurt Lindemann and from 1958 in the University Hospital in Münster with Oskar Hepp . In Münster he began with experimental and histological investigations into the healing of broken bones . He completed his habilitation in 1965.

In 1966 he went to the (already renowned) Orthopedic Clinic Wichernhaus in Altdorf near Nuremberg as a senior physician . As planned, in 1969 he succeeded Franz Theophil Becker as chief physician . He later moved to the Rummelsberg clinic near Schwarzenbruck, which was newly built according to his concept . At that time it was the largest (operative) orthopedic clinic in Germany. Clinically, Wagner devoted himself particularly to congenital hip dislocation . He is considered the doyen of (cementless) primary and revision endoprosthetics on the hip joint . His cap replacement of the femoral head proved to be very complicated - like the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing a good 20 years later.

In 1967 Wagner became a scientific member of the Swiss and in 1970 founding member of the German working group for osteosynthesis issues . The FAU appointed him an associate professor in 1969 .

His senior physician Günther Zeiler followed him at the Rummelsberg Clinic .

Honors

Awards

Honorary memberships

  • Société Française de Chirurgie Orthopédique et Traumatologique
  • Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie (1987 President of the XVII World Congress in Munich)
  • Hellenic Orthopedic Society
  • Argentine Society of Pediatric Orthopedics and Traumatology
  • Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Ecuador
  • Eastern Orthopedic Society
  • International Hip Society

Honorary and visiting professorships

medal

editor

  • Archives for orthopedic and trauma surgery
  • The orthopedist

literature

  • Dietrich Hohmann : Heinz Wagner December 7, 1929– November 1, 2001. Identity given to German orthopedics . Der Orthopäde 31 (2002), pp. 105-106.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Heinz Wagner , in: Urs FA Heim: The phenomenon AO. Foundation and first years of the working group for the study of osteosynthesis . Verlag Hans Huber, Bern 2001, ISBN 3-456-83638-4 , pp. 69-70, 119, 124.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Obituary by Dietrich Hohmann (2002)
  3. ^ Habilitation thesis: Presenile Osteoporosis. Physiology of bone remodeling and measurement of cancellous bone density .
  4. ↑ Christian Kothny (private website) ( Memento from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ The McMinn Center (private website)
  6. ↑ Donaukurier (2006)
  7. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orthopedist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronstadt , Transylvania
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 2001