Hugo Rost
Hugo Rost (full name: Paul Hugo Rost ; born August 20, 1904 in Kiel , † September 15, 1965 in Meschede ) was a German X-ray and orthopedic technician and medical technology inventor.
Life
Hugo Rost began in 1920 initially trained as a metalsmith and made after three years training period his professional qualification. Hugo Rost came to medical technology through his work in the field of prosthetics . From 1923 he was a journeyman at Pohl in Kiel and learned electrical engineering as a part-time job . He made his master craftsman's certificate in electrical engineering on March 23, 1934. During the war, he worked as an X-ray technician at the Pohl company in Kiel and was therefore released from military service. In May 1946 he founded the company Hugo Rost & Co X-ray technology in Kiel.
He dealt with the development and manufacture of X-ray equipment. Among other things, he was a member of the X-ray Society . In the working group with Lothar Diethelm, the implementation of the so-called C-arm for targeted X-ray diagnostics in trauma surgery was carried out together. With the help of Rost, an X-ray fluoroscopy device with image intensifier was constructed in 1954 by the then CHF Müller AG, Hamburg, for the operating theater as an aid to stable osteosynthesis .
He also developed the so-called urologist's table, a special X-ray device and the Babix cover, a special recording in which infants and toddlers can be fixed under X-ray machines and x-rayed.
Hugo Rost died on September 15, 1965 in Meschede on the way back from the urology congress in Cologne.
company
After Hugo Rost's death, his company was divided. Production was continued under the name of Rost Röntgengerätebau and sold to Siemens in 1969. Initially, production continued at the Kiel location, and a short time later this branch moved to Erlangen . The company Hugo rust and Co. remained in private hands and was in a 1991 GmbH converted. Hugo Rost has been manufacturing X-ray systems and computer tomographs for industrial use since 2009 , which are marketed together with SHAKE GmbH under the name SHR.
literature
- Gerhard Kütterer: life data of deserving personalities in the first decades of radiology . 2015, ISBN 978-3-7392-9619-7 , pp. 482 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed May 17, 2021]).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rust, Hugo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rost, Paul Hugo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German X-ray technician and medical technician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1965 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Meschede |