Hubert Frohmüller

Hubert Georg Wilhelm Frohmüller (born May 13, 1928 in Heidingsfeld ; † October 5, 2018 in Würzburg ) was a German urologist . From 1971 to 1997 he held the chair for urology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and director of the urological clinic and polyclinic at the University of Würzburg .

Life

Frohmüller attended elementary school in Heidingsfeld and then the humanistic old penal in Würzburg. In January 1944 he was drafted into service near Schweinfurt as an air force helper. From October 1945 to March 1946 he completed a so-called pre-semester, whereby he also received a regular Abitur certificate after a previously certified secondary school diploma, and studied medicine in Würzburg from April 1946 to 1952, where he received his doctorate in 1954. med. received his doctorate. During his studies he was an active member of the K.St.V. Walhalla in KV and held various board positions. After an assistantship at the Pathological Institute and the Medical Polyclinic of the University of Würzburg, he worked from 1954 to 1955 as part of an exchange program at St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson , New Jersey, USA. This was followed by a year as a surgical assistant at the St. Antonius Hospital in Kleve and another year with medical representatives in Switzerland. From 1958 to 1963 Frohmüller worked as a Fellow in Urology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. In 1963 he graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Masters of Science (MS) degree in Urology . He then worked as an assistant doctor in the urological department of the Surgical University Clinic in Munich and qualified as a specialist in urology in 1964.

After a year and a half he returned to the Surgical University Clinic in Würzburg , where on January 1, 1965, he took over the management of the urological department of the Surgical University Clinic, which was temporarily headed by R. Castringius and H. Zillmer after Wolfgang Lutzeyer's departure. There he qualified as a lecturer in urology in 1966 and in 1971 accepted a call to the newly created chair of urology. He turned down a call to the chair of urology at the Hannover Medical School . Eight of his assistants completed their habilitation, three of them were appointed to chairs for urology (Fritz Schröder to Rotterdam, Rolf Ackermann to Düsseldorf and Manfred Wirth to Dresden) and nine of his former assistants became chief physicians for urology. In 1997 Frohmüller retired.

He was married to Inge Frohmüller (née Schlegel) and had three children.

Clinical focus

The focus of the clinic run by Frohmüller was initially on transurethral operations , in which the surgical instrument is inserted through the urethra. He thus contributed significantly to the spread of this surgical method in Germany. In 1969 Frohmüller performed the first radical retropubic prostatectomy in Germany on a patient with prostate cancer . With this surgical method, the prostate is removed using an open operation, the incision is made in the lower abdomen. In 1984 he carried out the first kidney transplant in Würzburg. Frohmüller also modified the so-called Thompson resectoscope (“Cold Punch”), an operating theater instrument that is inserted into the bladder through the urethra to remove prostate tissue. With this instrument, which he further developed, the then US President Ronald Reagan was operated on on the prostate in 1987 . Frohmüller also developed the urinary catheter named after him .

Scientific commitment

Frohmüller has published around 300 scientific articles.

He was President of the German Society for Endoscopy (1971–1972), President of the Bavarian Urologist Association (1980–1984), President of the German Society for Urology (1985–1986), President Mayo Alumni German Speaking Chapter (1996–1997) and Chairman - Residency Review Committee of the European Board of Urology (EBU) of the UEMS (Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes) (1989–1995). He was a member of the UEMS Steering Committee, Urology Section (1986–1995).

Frohmüller was an honorary member of the German Society for Urology, the European Society for Urology, the American Urological Association (AUA), the Bavarian Urological Association, the Professional Association of German Urologists as well as the Greek, Austrian, Polish and Swiss Society for Urology and the South Central Section of the American Urological Association.

In 1969 he was the first German urologist to be appointed a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). He was a corresponding member of the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons (AAGUS) (oldest urologist association in the world), the Brazilian College of Surgery, the Ecuadorian Society of Urology, the Italian Society of Urology, the Dutch Society of Urology, the Chilean Society for Urology and the Finnish Urological Club.

Fonts (selection)

• ed. with Klaus Bandhauer: Urology in Practice. VCH edition Medizin, Weinheim 1986, ISBN 3-527-15092-7 .
• ed. with Manfred Wirth: Uro-Oncology: Current Status and Future Trends. Wiley-Liss, New York et al. a. 1990, ISBN 0-471-56816-3 .
• with Matthias Theiss and Franz Bracher: Prostate diseases in old age. Scientific Publishing Company, Stuttgart 1995; 2nd, revised and expanded edition 2002, ISBN 3-8047-1831-0 .
• with Georg Hofmockel: Urological emergencies. Pathophysiology, symptoms, diagnosis and therapy. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8047-1769-1 .

honors and awards

• 1953: German university champion in rowing (foursome m. St.)
• 1992: University of Helsinki bronze medal
• 1993: Moses Swick Award, Mount Sinai Medical Center , New York (Frohmüller was the first German scientist to receive this award)
• 1994: Maximilian Nitze Prize of the German Society for Urology for outstanding scientific achievements
• 1995: Maximilian Nitze Medal of the German Society for Urology for services to urology
• 2004: Knight of the Papal New Year's Order
• 2006: Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumni Award
• 2007: Willy Gregoir Medal of the European Association of Urology (EAU) for an essential contribution to the development of urology in Europe
• 2011: Due to his scientific merits and for his decades of commitment to the K.St.V. Walhalla zu Würzburg he was named honorary philistine.

literature

• Endoscopic Urology - Atlas and textbook edited by Rainer Hofmann; 2nd edition, Springer Medizin Verlag, Heidelberg 2009; Chapter I by Jürgen Braun: Endoscopic Resection Instruments and Surgical Techniques, p. 4. (Cold Punch Resectoscope)
• Focus Counselor Medicine - The 1000 Best Doctors ; 1st edition, C. Bertelsmann Verlag GmbH, Munich 1993, p. 74 (urologists)

Web links

• Literature by and about Hubert Frohmüller in the catalog of the German National Library Catalog of the German National Library
• Der Spiegel 1984: Report on a new method of prostate surgery accessed on September 21, 2011
• Focus 1994: Scientific dispute about prostate cancer therapy accessed on September 21, 2011
• Laudation for the 70th birthday in: Der Urologe accessed on September 21, 2011
• Article on the 75th birthday in the magazine of the University of Würzburg: Uni-Intern 16/2003 accessed on September 22, 2011
• Laudation on the 80th birthday in: Mitteilungen der DGU, accessed on September 21, 2011
• Article from Main-Post on the occasion of his 80th birthday, accessed on September 22, 2011
• News about the award as "Distinguished Alumnus" of the Mayo Clinic in the current news of the University Hospital Würzburg accessed on January 5, 2015
• Main-Post article on the occasion of his 85th birthday, accessed on May 15, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice Hubert Frohmüller , FAZ from October 13, 2018
2. ↑ Hubert Frohmüller: Urology experienced 35 years. The development of the subject in personal experience. (Farewell lecture on June 24, 1996) In: Würzburger medizinhistorische Mitteilungen 24, 2005, pp. 570–579, here: p. 570
3. ^ US News and World Report: Best Hospitals Honor Roll. 2019/20 Best Hospitals: # 1 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. Retrieved January 18, 2020 . 
4. ^ Hubert Frohmüller: History of urology at the University of Würzburg. In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6), ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 957–973; here: p. 964 f.
5. ↑ Jürgen Konert: Illustrated history of urology. Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-08771-7 , p. 164. Restricted preview in the Google book search
6. ↑ 1,000 kidney transplants in 30 years. Retrieved November 18, 2014 .  In: mainpost.de
7. ^ Rainer Hofmann: Endoscopic urology . Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-01167-2 , limited preview in Google Book Search
8. ↑ Pioneer of modern urology. Retrieved July 16, 2014 .  In: mainpost.de
9. ↑ ^{a b} DGU list of award winners. Retrieved May 11, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Awarding of papal orders. Retrieved September 9, 2014 .  In: download.kirchenserver.net
11. ↑ Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumni Award. Retrieved January 5, 2015 .  In: alumniassociation.mayo.edu
12. ^ Recipients of the EAU Willy Gregoir Medal. Retrieved May 12, 2015 .