Leo Havers

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Leo Havers (born December 10, 1919 in Bern , † December 26, 1989 ) was a German doctor.

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Leo Havers was a son of the linguist Wilhelm Havers and his wife Maria, née Ommers, who came from Lindlar . The maternal grandfather was the Lindlar baker, retailer and innkeeper Karl Ommer (1857-1948), who was a son of the renowned Lindlar innkeeper Christian Ommer (1820-1900). His father followed calls with the family at universities in Bern , Würzburg and Breslau . In 1938 he moved with his parents and siblings to Vienna , where he attended a grammar school. During the holidays he often lived with his grandparents in Lindlar.

Before the start of the Second World War , Havers began studying medicine at the University of Vienna, which he had to interrupt due to a job in Wipperfürth . During this time he lived with his grandfather in Lindlar. After being called up for military service, he fought on the Eastern Front. After the end of the war, he resumed his medical studies and aspired to graduate as a surgeon. In the early 1950s he received offers for grants in surgery in the USA and anesthesia in England. He chose London as his place of study, where he dealt with anesthesia , which at that time was almost not taught in Germany.

In 1956 Havers moved to Bonn and established the independent branch of anesthesia at the university there for many years. After completing his habilitation in 1970 he was appointed full professor. He taught at the medical faculty until his retirement in 1981. He then worked until the end of 1989 as chief physician in the anesthesia department of the St. Johannes Hospital there . Together with Eberhard Krüger , he wrote the operating theory for dentists , which appeared in several editions.

Havers has tended to lead an Anglo-Saxon gentlemanly lifestyle since his stay in London. He placed little value on offices or titles and did not identify himself as a professor or head physician, which occasionally irritated new employees and colleagues when he visited patients.

Havers inherited a house with a mill from his maternal grandfather. At the beginning of the 1980s, he decided to renovate the property in a merchant's summer. As part of the project, he got to know the Lindlar open-air museum , got involved in it and organized a meeting in this property in August 1988, at which a support association of the museum was founded.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Carstensen: A humanist and gentleman served medicine and culture - Prof. Leo Havers - doctor and friend of the homeland, connected with Lindlar. Rheinisch-Bergischer calendar 1992. Heider-Verlag Bergisch Gladbach. Page 212.
  2. ↑ Jan Carstensen: A humanist and gentleman served medicine and culture - Prof. Leo Havers - doctor and friend of the homeland, connected with Lindlar. Rheinisch-Bergischer calendar 1992. Heider-Verlag Bergisch Gladbach. Pages 212–213.
  3. ↑ Jan Carstensen: A humanist and gentleman served medicine and culture - Prof. Leo Havers - doctor and friend of the homeland, connected with Lindlar. Rheinisch-Bergischer calendar 1992. Heider-Verlag Bergisch Gladbach. Page 213.
  4. ↑ Jan Carstensen: A humanist and gentleman served medicine and culture - Prof. Leo Havers - doctor and friend of the homeland, connected with Lindlar. Rheinisch-Bergischer calendar 1992. Heider-Verlag Bergisch Gladbach. Page 213.
  5. ↑ Jan Carstensen: A humanist and gentleman served medicine and culture - Prof. Leo Havers - doctor and friend of the homeland, connected with Lindlar. Rheinisch-Bergischer calendar 1992. Heider-Verlag Bergisch Gladbach. Page 213.
personal data
SURNAME Havers, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1989