Jörg Rehn

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Jörg Rehn (born March 15, 1918 in Hamburg ; † September 8, 2002 in Denzlingen ) was a German surgeon . He is considered a pioneer in trauma surgery and was a university lecturer in Freiburg and Bochum .

Life

Rehn's father Eduard Rehn and both grandfathers, Ludwig Rehn and Hermann Kümmell , were important surgeons . While studying medicine, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , but was able to do his doctorate in 1944 . The dissertation dealt with non-healing ( pseudarthroses ) of broken bones. Released from captivity , he began his training in Freiburg im Breisgau and with Franz Büchner ( pathology ) and Ludwig Heilmeyer ( internal medicine ) in Munich . He was trained as a surgeon by his father and Hermann Krauss since 1948 . In 1950 his son Götz Rehn was born.

In 1956 he completed his habilitation on burns .

Since the treatment of accident injuries had not yet been systematically researched and broken bones often did not heal well, Rehn was sent to Brussels to join a student of Robert Danis in an assistant exchange. The first treatment regimes were introduced there. At the request of Danis, Rehn presented this Brussels concept in 1952 at the German Congress of Surgeons. Unlike many well-known colleagues, Krauss encouraged his student Rehn to continue the “hard work”. In the meantime , Rehn has become an associate professor and was involved in the Swiss working group for osteosynthesis issues founded in 1958 .

On September 1, 1962, he succeeded Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp as director of the professional association accident hospital Bergmannsheil in Bochum. There he systematically expanded surgical trauma surgery and made the house the German reference clinic. In 1977 Bergmannsheil was integrated into the new university hospital of the Ruhr University Bochum . Rehn became a full professor . In 1983 he retired . In 1984 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

On Rehn's 70th birthday , a surgical symposium was held in Constance , together with Ernst Kern's 65th and Siegfried Weller's 60th birthday.

science

Rehn devoted himself particularly to the pathophysiology of trauma , thromboembolism syndrome and burn research.

From 1974 to 1991 he was editor of the magazine Der Unfallchirurg .

Publications (selection)

  • Accidental injuries in children. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1974.
  • The old man in surgery. Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1979.
  • Medical malpractice and liability claims in trauma surgery. Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1980.
  • Experienced surgery. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1997, ISBN 3-609-51420-5 (autobiography and foray through 100 years of contemporary and surgical history).

literature

  • Gert Muhr: On the 80th birthday of Professor Dr. Jörg Rehn. In: The trauma surgeon. 101, 1998, p. 222.
  • Günther Hierholzer: Obituary for Prof. Dr. Jörg Rehn. In: DGU - Mitteilungen und Nachrichten. 48, 2003, p. 21.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Steger: Old postcard shows the Freiburg private clinic of the surgeon Eduard Rehn. Badische Zeitung, March 18, 2019, accessed on March 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ernst Kern: Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 335.
personal data
SURNAME Rehn, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2002
Place of death Denzlingen