Joachim Hoessler

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Joachim Hößler (* February 1923 in Burgstädt ; † 1987 ) was a German surgeon and medical advisor , who served as the longstanding deputy medical director of the miners' hospital in Stollberg / Erzgeb. and medical director of the medical school in Neukirchen / Erzgeb. gained fame through his professional skills, his loyalty to the people and his original style. Through his work at the end of the Second World War, he made a decisive contribution to the fact that the city of Burgstädt surrendered to the Americans without a fight after initial resistance (approx. 40 dead).

Life

He was born in Burgstädt as the son of a bank employee who became unemployed due to inflation. From 1929 he attended elementary school, from 1933 the higher department of the elementary school in Burgstädt and from 1936 the high school in Waldenburg . He was housed there in the boarding school. It was here that he first came into closer contact with medicine, which from then on would determine his life. In Waldenburg he was appointed prefect of sickness for the local high school. When a military doctor recruited children at school, Hößler accepted this offer because his parents could not pay for such a degree. In 1940 he was drafted and in the following year he was able to start studying medicine in Berlin. He soon moved to Würzburg , where he completed the Physikum and witnessed the bombing raids on the city on the Main in 1944/45. Before the end of the war he was transferred to Chemnitz . From there he returned to his hometown Burgstädt, where a military hospital had been set up in his previous school. There he experienced the end of the war and also worked as an assistant doctor for some time after the war. He was also active in the health committee and in corridor protection. On April 14, 1945, he experienced the American artillery raid on Burgstädt, where he immediately provided first aid as a medic and took care of the numerous wounded (23 residents of Burgstädts, 11 German soldiers and several Americans died) and took care of their transport to the surrounding hospitals and military hospitals . Shortly afterwards he also gave medical help to Americans wounded by the Hitler Youth and then took part in the disarming of the Hitler Youth, which had provoked the American military attack on Burgstädt. Then Hößler made sure that the small group of Wehrmacht members who were still resisting the Americans surrendered without a fight and that the city of Burgstädt could be handed over to the Americans without further losses.

In order to continue and complete his studies, Hößler worked for four months as a guitarist in the dance orchestra of the conductor Ernst Knauth. In November 1945 he continued his studies in Würzburg, in 1947 he passed the state examination and obtained his doctorate on the subject of the development of infectious diseases in humans at the Medical Faculty of the University of Mainz and initially returned to Burgstädt. In 1947 he got a job as an assistant doctor at the Rabenstein Hospital . In 1949 he went to the new miners' hospital in Stollberg / Erzgeb. , which from then on became his place of work.

In 1953 Joachim Hößler was recognized as a specialist in surgery, after which he switched to the women's department for three years, where he became a specialist in gynecological diseases and obstetrics. In 1956 he got a job as a senior physician in surgery and in 1958 he took over the position of chief physician. In 1960 he joined the SED because he recognized that in our republic the party of the working class promotes all people who are hardworking and capable. It is not the parents' wallet that is decisive.

In 1964 he became the deputy medical director of the miners' hospital in Stollberg, where he worked for almost twenty years and was popular with employees and patients alike due to his professional skills and his particularly popular and human nature. Most of the time he had his guitar on hand and thus contributed in a very unconventional way to the fact that so many sick people temporarily forgot the pain through his music. Due to his state of health, Joachim Hößler gave the post of chief physician to younger hands in mid-1983.

For some time, Joachim Hößler also worked as the medical director of the Neukirchen Medical School, where he played a key role in the medical training of nurses and carers from the Karl-Marx-Stadt area .

literature

  • Celebrities from our homeland. A surgeon tells . In: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge , 12, 1967, No. 1, pp. 4–7.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When the US Army came to Burgstädt . In: Freie Presse , issue of April 14, 2015
  2. ↑ Celebrities in our homeland. A surgeon tells . In: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge , 12, 1967, No. 1, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Hössler, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and medical councilor
DATE OF BIRTH February 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgstädt
DATE OF DEATH 1987