Klaus Reichel

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Klaus Reichel

Klaus Reichel (born March 29, 1934 in Nordhausen ; † November 22, 1996 on Phuket in Thailand ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

Reichel comes from an old family of doctors and surgeons in Breslau. His parents were the doctor Hans-Joachim Reichel and his wife Marie. Reichel grew up in Wesenberg (Mecklenburg) , Neustrelitz , Krakow and Braunschweig . He obtained his Abitur at the humanistic Windthorst-Gymnasium Meppen . From 1953 he studied medicine, first at the University of Cologne , where he became a member of the Corps Silesia Breslau in 1954 . After further studies at the University of Vienna and the Georg August University of Göttingen , he passed his state examination on December 12, 1959 at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich with the grade very good . Yet in 1959 he became cum laude for Dr. med. PhD .

After working as a medical assistant with H. Broichmann in Bocholt and K. Thurau at the Institute for Physiology at the University of Göttingen, Reichel became an assistant doctor at the Munich University Surgical Clinic with Rudolf Zenker in 1963 . In 1967 he went to the Hannover Medical School (MHH) with Hans Georg Borst . He completed his habilitation with him in 1970. In 1972 he became senior physician with Rudolf Pichlmayr at the newly founded chair for abdominal and transplant surgery at the MHH. The MHH appointed him professor in 1974 . In 1975 he moved to the Siloah hospital in Hanover as chief physician . He introduced choledochoscopy in 1977, arthroscopy in 1979 and, in 1990, he was the first to introduce minimally invasive surgery in Hanover . Between December 1990 and March 1994, 2356 patients were operated on with this method. For the professional association of German surgeons , operation courses in laparoscopic surgery have been offered since 1985 .

In 1988 Reichel was chairman of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons and from 1992 to 1994 chairman of the Hanover Medical Association. In 1994 he received the plaque of honor from the Lower Saxony Medical Association. During a trip to the 30th World Congress of the International College of Surgeons in Kyoto, he died at the age of 62 of complications from heart disease.

Reichel was married and had two children.

Works

literature

Individual evidence

  1. cf. Literature: Paul Friedrich Reichel , surgical clinic in Breslau
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 154 , 941
  3. Dissertation: On the functional results of urethrocystopexy as incontinence surgery .
  4. Habilitation thesis: Studies on humans and animals on the inhibition of gastric secretion
  5. ^ Hannoversche Ärzte-Verlags-Union - Archive. In: www.haeverlag.de. Retrieved November 10, 2016 .
  6. Niedersächsisches Ärzteblatt 6/1994
  7. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 26, 1996