Hermann Dietz (neurosurgeon)

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Hermann Dietz (born February 15, 1925 in Kaiserslautern ; † April 18, 2016 ) was a German neurosurgeon .

Dietz, whose parents had a pub in Pirmasens, was drafted into Zweibrücken after graduating from high school and was a soldier from 1943 to 1945. He studied psychology in Mainz from 1946 to 1950 (with a diploma) and then medicine with his doctorate in 1953 (leukocyte regulation and vegetative system). He then completed specialist training as a surgeon in Mainz and, from 1955, in neurosurgery with Kurt Schürmann . In 1962 he became a senior physician and in 1966 he completed his habilitation (Die Frontobasale cranial brain injury).

From 1970 to 1993 he was a full professor and director of the neurosurgical clinic at the Hannover Medical School, which had just been founded at the time. 1981 to 1989 he was Medical Director of the MHH.

In 1998 he received the Wilhelm Tönnis Medal . From 1982 to 1984 he was chairman of the German Society for Neurosurgery, its vice-president from 1980 to 1982 and secretary from 1974 to 1980.

In 1979 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Teresina in Brazil.

He had been married to Elfrun Dietz since 1958 and had a daughter.

Fonts

  • Frontobasal cranial brain injury: clinical picture and problems of surgical treatment, Springer 1970 (foreword by Schürmann)
  • Editor: Clinical Neurosurgery, 2 volumes, Thieme 1982
  • with Reinhold A. Frowein, Kea Franz: Neurosurgery in Germany 1945 to 1970, in: Neurosurgery in Germany: Past and Present, Ed. on behalf of the German Society for Neurosurgery, Blackwell 2001
  • with R. Frowein, DE Rosenow, HE Vitzthum, Neurosurgery in Germany 1932 to 1945, in: Neurosurgery in Germany: Past and Present, Ed. on behalf of the German Society for Neurosurgery, Blackwell 2001

literature

  • Mario Brock , Obituary in J. of Neurological Surgery, Volume 77, 2016, pp. 379-380

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituaries in the HAZ, April 23, 2016
  2. ^ Career data Kürschner, Scholars Calendar 2009


personal data
SURNAME Dietz, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurosurgeon
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2016