Hermann Krauss (physician)

This article deals with the surgeon Hermann Krauss. For the local history researcher see Hermann Krauss .

Krauss' grave in the Freiburg main cemetery

Hermann Eitel Wilhelm Krauss (born March 20, 1899 in Calw ; † June 27, 1971 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German surgeon.

Life

Hermann Krauss studied human medicine and in 1934 became a private lecturer at the University of Berlin , was an assistant doctor and senior physician under Ferdinand Sauerbruch at the Charité and was appointed adjunct professor for surgery in Berlin in 1939 . He also managed the Am Urban hospital in Berlin. During the Second World War he was an advisory surgeon for the Army Sanitary Inspection.

On behalf of Sauerbruch, he looked after the sick Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in the last phase of his life at Gut Neudeck as an “ambulance”.

After the end of the war he was interned as an SS member in Garmisch for three years from 1945 and after his release he was director of the large surgical department of the district hospital in Göppingen from 1948 (he had decided against the appointment at the same time for the ordinariate in Tübingen ). Like his teacher Sauerbruch, Krauss was also active in the field of thoracic surgery and had already carried out the first mitral stenosis blasts . In 1952 he accepted an appointment as full professor and director of the surgical university clinic in Freiburg . One of his surgical students was Ernst Kern , who had already introduced himself to him in 1951, was Krauss's assistant and senior physician from 1954 to 1966, and had completed his habilitation in 1959. The speech on Krauss's 60th birthday was given by his first senior physician Fritz Kümmerle . On this birthday, the internist Ludwig Heilmeyer, who was a friend of Krauss, dedicated the textbook on internal medicine that was first published in 1955 to him .

From 1964 Krauss was President of the German Society for Surgery . He held his farewell lecture in July 1969. After his retirement, Krauss, whose life was surgery, died soon after in 1971.

Honors

• 1969: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . , P. 336f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Krauss in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hermann Krauss , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 20/1965 of May 10, 1965, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Kipnis: Krauss, Hermann (1899-1971), surgeon .
2. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff : That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 388.
3. ↑ Hans Rudolf Berndorff : A life for surgery. Obituary for Ferdinand Sauerbruch. In: Ferdinand Sauerbruch: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition Bertelsmann, Munich 1956, pp. 456–478, here: p. 460.
4. ↑ Ernst Kern: Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , pp. 77 f., 109 and 312.
5. ↑ Ernst Kern: Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. 2000, pp. 78 and 320.