Max Biebl

Max Biebl (born August 22, 1893 in Etsdorf ; † August 8, 1968 in Magdeburg ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

As the son of a primary school teacher, Biebl attended the humanistic Erasmus grammar school in Amberg . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen from 1913 . When the First World War broke out , he was drafted into the Bavarian Army and served as a medical deputy sergeant (1916), field junior doctor and troop medical officer (1917) and field medical officer (1918) in the 11th Infantry Division , the so-called flying division. Returning home with high honors, he continued his studies at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich .

After the state examination, he was assistant to Ernst von Romberg in the internal medicine of the Schwabing Clinic in 1920/21 . 1921 Dr. med. After receiving his doctorate , he went to surgery at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel under Wilhelm Anschütz in 1922/23 and in 1924/25 to the pathology department at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen under Eduard Kaufmann . In 1926 he returned to surgery to Arthur Läwen at the Philipps University of Marburg . At the instigation of Ludwig Aschoff , he spent four weeks of private science in Moscow , Leningrad and Helsingfors in 1928 . In 1929 he followed Läwen to the Albertus University in Königsberg , where he completed his habilitation . With a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation , he was with Frank Charles Mann at the Mayo Clinic in 1929/30 . In 1934 he became senior physician and associate professor in Königsberg .

In October 1937 he took over the management of the surgical clinic at the Magdeburg-Altstadt Hospital as the successor to Wilhelm Löhr . As 25 years earlier, he was drafted into the army on August 26, 1939 . From the beginning of the Second World War until 1941 he served in a field hospital . From 1941 he was an advisory surgeon in the 16th Army on Lake Ilmen and in Moravia . He became senior staff doctor in 1942 and was last senior field doctor .

Released from American captivity in August 1945 and returned to Magdeburg, he was initially an assistant, and from 1947 head of his clinic again. From 1954 to 1961 he was also a professor with full teaching position at the Medical Academy of Magdeburg . He devoted himself particularly to goiter and stomach surgery . In 1962 he retired . He was not only considered a surgical, but also an artistic talent.

Since 1934 Biebl was married to Käthe, née Klauss, with whom he had two children.

Biebl began his National Socialist career in 1933 as an SA storm leader . He joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party in 1935. Then he became a member of the National Socialist German Medical Association and National Socialist Teachers' Association . Later he also acquired membership of the National Socialist Old Men’s Association . Biebl had been a member of the German Society for Surgery since 1927, but only from 1953 onwards. In 1955 he went to the Société Internationale de Chirurgie in Brussels . From 1951 the surgeon was also a member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

Karl Philipp Behrendt: The war surgery from 1939–1945 from the point of view of the consulting surgeons of the German army in the Second World War. Dissertation University of Freiburg 2003. Online version (PDF; 2.3 MB)
W. Mokros: Our surgical legacy - the surgical schools in Magdeburg. In: Zentralblatt für Chirurgie. 126, p. 413, doi : 10.1055 / s-2001-14760 .

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Behrendt dissertation (PDF; 2.3 MB)
↑ Habilitation thesis: An experimental connective tissue study on the reticuloendothelium of the liver.
↑ ^a ^b University of Magdeburg
↑ Magdeburg cemeteries and burial places (PDF; 4.9 MB)
↑ for a soft tissue bullet in the left upper arm in the Battle of Verdun