Hermann Gocht

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Hermann Gocht (born February 3, 1869 in Koethen (Anhalt) ; † May 18, 1938 in Schkopau ) was a German orthopedist and university professor.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1888, Hermann Gocht studied medicine at the universities of Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , the Friedrichs University in Halle , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen . Since 1889 he was a member of the Corps Borussia Halle , later an honorary member . In 1912 he also became a member of the Corps Guestfalia Greifswald .

The state examination (1894) was followed by seven years of advanced training at the Surgical University Clinic in Halle under Friedrich Gustav von Bramann , at the Hygiene Institute at the University of Greifswald under Friedrich Loeffler , at the Pathological Institute at the University of Greifswald under Paul Grawitz (1850-1932), in the hospital's surgery department Hamburg-Eppendorf under Hermann Kümmell and finally at the Würzburg Orthopedic Private Clinic by Albert Hoffa . There he became a senior physician. With August Blencke , Alfred Schanz and Gustav Drehmann he established the independence and validity of German orthopedics.

In 1901 he founded his own clinic in Halle (Saale) , which became a center for German cripple welfare . Inspired by Heinrich Hoeftman and Schanz, the German Orthopedic Society came into being in the same year . Already at the 2nd Congress (1903) Gocht reported on his rich experiences. As chairman of the 11th Congress, he pointed out that "despite the powerful countercurrent, the chair for orthopedics in Berlin was retained and new chairs had been established in Breslau ( Ludloff ) and Zurich ( Schulthess )."

Professor since 1910 , Gocht was appointed professor at the Charité in 1915 . He founded the Orthopedic Department of the Charité, supported from 1915 to 1924 by his Swiss assistant, later senior physician and deputy Dr. Hans Debrunner. In 1934 he was appointed director of the Oskar-Helene-Heim founded by Konrad Biesalski .

As editor of the archive for orthopedic and trauma surgery , Gocht and Fritz König were committed to the interplay of orthopedics / mechanotherapy and traumatology . The two competing subjects were only merged a hundred years later through the new training regulations. “But those who had been able to defend themselves as a young student also survived the fights victoriously even in mature manhood and until the end of his academic career.” (Wittek). With his appointment as full professor (1927) and with his election as dean (1932–1935), Gochts achievement and integrity were recognized.

In 1936 Gocht had to give his farewell lecture, in 1937 he made all offices available due to illness. Naturally interested in the new X-ray diagnostics, he was a co-founder of the German X- ray Society in 1905 . Due to a lack of radiation protection measures in the first years of his scientific work, Hermann Gocht suffered severe skin damage on his hands. They eventually led to radiation cancer, from which he died in 1938.

social commitment

On Gochts initiative, the Krüppel-Heil- and Bildungsverein Halle-Merseburg and the Krüppel-Fürsorge-Verein were founded in the province of Saxony in 1909 and the Krüppel-Heil- und Bildungs-Anstalt in Halle in 1910 .

Honors

  • Chairman of the German Association for Cripple Welfare (1933)
  • Honorary member of the German Orthopedic Society (1937)
  • Honorary member of the Orthopedic Societies of England, Italy and Sweden
  • Honorary member of the Vienna Radiological Society

Works

  • X-ray examination textbook for medical use (1898)
  • Instructions for the manufacture of orthopedic bandages (1901)
  • Artificial Limbs (1907)
  • Amputations and disarticulations, artificial limbs (1907)
  • Orthopedic technology (1917)
  • Artificial Limbs (1920)
  • with Hans Debrunner: Orthopedic Therapy (Leipzig 1925)
  • New edition of Hoffa's textbook
  • Handbook for the X-ray world literature , 15 volumes (1911–1934)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 96/412; 52/316
personal data
SURNAME Gocht, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radiologist, orthopedist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Koethen (Anhalt)
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1938
Place of death Schkopau