Herbert Junghanns (surgeon)

Herbert Junghanns (born November 15, 1902 in Zwickau ; † February 24, 1986 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German surgeon and medical officer. Spinal surgery was one of his main focuses.

Life

During the National Socialist era , Junghanns was a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party , the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the National Socialist German Medical Association . From 1937 he was an advisory surgeon in Military District IX . Since 1941 he was an adjunct professor at the University Hospital Frankfurt am Main . In 1944 he was also a doctor at the Köppern Forest Hospital , an alternative psychiatric hospital run by Aktion Brandt , which continued Operation T4 under the guise of clearing psychiatric institutions for conversion into hospitals .

After the end of the Second World War , Junghanns worked at the Evangelical Hospital in Oldenburg from 1945 to 1962. After he had become president of the German Society for Surgery in 1961, he became chief physician of the professional association accident clinic in Frankfurt am Main in 1962 . In November 1962, upon his appeal, 16 scientific medical societies founded the Working Group of Scientific Medical Societies ( AWMF ). From 1965 he was editor of the book series The Spine in Research and Practice .

See also : List of Advisory Surgeons in the Wehrmacht

Honors

• War Merit Cross with Swords
• President of the German Society for Surgery
• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1971)
• Federal Cross of Merit (1977)
• Plaque of Honor of the City of Frankfurt am Main (1970)
• Ernst von Bergmann badge

Fonts

• The healthy and the sick spine in X-ray and clinic. Georg Thieme Verlag , Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 978-3133978057 .

literature

• 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. 154–155.

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Junghanns in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 292.
2. ↑ Honoring the Society for Spine Research ( Memento from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Junghans [sic], Herbert, p. 211 .