Ludwig Zukschwerdt

Ludwig Zukschwerdt

Ludwig Zukschwerdt (born February 7, 1902 in Stuttgart ; † August 20, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a German surgeon , general practitioner and university professor .

Life

After completing his school career, Zukschwerdt studied medicine . Since 1931 he has qualified as a private lecturer at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , and in 1936 he became an extraordinary professor . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP and the SS . Zukschwerdt became chief physician at Bruchsal Hospital in 1939

During the Second World War in 1941 he was given a chair at the National Socialist University of Strasbourg and became an SS physician. In this role he was a consultant surgeon for Luftflotte 3 and, according to Eugen Haagen, worked in hepatitis research .

After the end of the war he was interned in the United States until 1948 . During his captivity in Le Havre , Zuckschwerdt worked in the central hospital for lung surgery, where he developed a procedure for “derinding” the lungs. After his release from captivity, he worked as a professor z. Wv. Head of the surgical department at the central clinics in Göppingen . From 1954 he was chief physician at the municipal hospital in Bad Oeynhausen . From the beginning of April 1955 to 1968 he was full professor at the University of Hamburg and, as successor to Albert Lezius, director of the surgical clinic at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . In the general progress of surgery, Zukschwerdt initiated specialization in his clinic. Cardiac surgery ( Georg-Wilhelm Rodewald ) began with open heart operations, anesthesiology was set up as a department and received its own chair (Karl Horatz ), as was urology (Herbert Klosterhalfen), which from then on formed its own clinic. He also founded the Department of Blood Clotting Disorders, the first "of its kind in the world". In 1968 the surgical clinic was expanded to include an intensive care unit for cardiovascular surgery. In 1966 he became president of the German Society for Surgery . In 1956, 1960 and 1967 he headed the 78th, 86th and 100th meetings of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons . From 1960 to 1967 Ludwig Zukschwerdt took over the chairmanship of the Hamburg Symposium on Blood Coagulation, succeeding Rudolf Juergens . His senior physician Friedrich Stelzner succeeded him as full professor and director of the surgical clinic in 1968 .

Honors

• Honorary member of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons (1966)
• Honorary member of the German Society for Surgery (1971)
• Elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1972)

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Rüdiger Döhler , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder and Eike Sebastian Debus : Surgery in the North. For the 200th meeting of the Association of North German Surgeons in Hamburg 2017 . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-942825-67-2 , pp. 358–359.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Former Presidents of the Society for Surgery (pdf)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ludwig Zukschwerdt in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 698.
4. ↑ Ursula Weisser (Ed.): 100 Years University Hospital Eppendorf 1889-1989, Attempto Verlag Tübingen 1989, pages 241, 247
5. ↑ Ursula Weisser (Ed.): 100 Years University Hospital Eppendorf 1889-1989, Attempto Verlag Tübingen 1989, page 241
6. ↑ On the history of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons, 125th conference, 12. – 14. June 1980, p. 24.