Jacob Huefner

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Jacob Hüfner with his wife, wedding photo around 1910, detail from the wedding party

Jacob Hüfner (* 1875 in Rippberg ; † February 9, 1968 in Bartenstein , Württemberg ) was a German orthopedic technician.

Life

Blank from Hüfner's workshop

Jacob Hüfner was a trained watchmaker and precision mechanic, and also head of the Royal Bavarian Orthopedic Workshops . When Ferdinand Sauerbruch , he worked as an orthopedic technician operates. At the end of the First World War, he developed a mechanism for arm amputee soldiers that transferred muscle movements to the thumb and forefinger and constructed a mechanical replacement hand, the so-called hip hand. It could be actively opened and closed. This was later developed into the Sauerbruch arm by the surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch .

From 1933 until his death in 1968, Hüfner lived and worked as a watchmaker in Bartenstein . In 1945 he saved the city from destruction. During the Allied shelling, he climbed the tower of the Hofkirche and hoisted the white flag to hand it over to the American troops.

Honors

See also

literature

  • Anne Reimann, Claus Reimann: Bartenstein as it used to be, by craftsmen, councilors and lackeys. Niederstetten 2009.
  • Marion Maria Ruisinger (Ed.): The hatmaker's hand. German Medical History Museum , No. 40, Ingolstadt 2014.
  • 750 years of Schrozberg. Published by the Historical Association for Württembergisch Franconia, Volume 15. Schwäbisch Hall 1999.
  • Bartenstein, Ettenhausen, E. Langenbucher, Bartenstein 1976

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Friedrich Karpa: The history of the arm prosthesis with special consideration of the performance of Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875-1951) PDF (dissertation)
  2. ↑ Jacob Hüfner in Baden-Baden: Lock for artificial hands patent specification No. 362286
  3. ↑ Former significant personalities of Bartenstein on ort-barenstein.de
  4. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Huefner, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hüfner, Jakob (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German watchmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Rippberg
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1968
Place of death Bartenstein