Max Brandes

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Max Brandes (born September 27, 1881 in Soest ; † May 25, 1976 ) was a German surgeon and orthopedist . He founded the orthopedic clinics in Kiel and Dortmund .

Life

After graduating from the Detmold Gymnasium Leopoldinum , Brandes studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . During his studies he became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity in 1901 . After he had passed the state examination in 1906, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In Braunschweig he turned to pathology . The surgical training he went through in Kiel at Wilhelm Anschütz , in which he as a senior physician in 1912 habilitated . In the Second Balkan War he was in charge of a hospital . During the First World War , he ran a large hospital for brain injured people in Mannheim. The Christian Albrechts University in Kiel appointed him an extraordinary professor in 1917 .

On behalf of Anschütz, he set up the orthopedic department of Kiel surgery. In 1920 he became a state cripple doctor for the province of Schleswig-Holstein . In 1921 he went to the Dortmund Municipal Clinics to set up the orthopedic clinic. He became senior physician in 1925 and chief physician in 1928 at the clinic, which eventually had 120 beds. From 1945 he was medical director of the Dortmund hospitals. Kurt Lindemann and Günter Imhäuser are among his students . He was on the appointment lists for the orthopedic chairs in Frankfurt am Main, Munich and Münster. In Münster in 1938 he was in first place ahead of Carl Mau and Peter Pitzen . On July 31, 1952, at the age of 70, he retired at his own request. He devoted himself to classical literature and promoted young musicians and authors. Called “the glass bead player” by his friends, he wrote (private) treatises on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Adolf Friedrich von Schack . He spent the winters in Munich and the summers in Körbecke . He died at the age of 94 and was buried in his hometown cemetery.

Honors

literature

  • G. Imhäuser: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Max Brandes † May 25, 1976 . Zeitschrift für Orthopädie 114 (1976), pp. 871-873. Digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 233.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About Gliomas of the Brain of Adolescents .
  3. ^ Habilitation thesis: Typical fractures of the atrophic femur.
  4. ↑ a b G. Imhäuser: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Max Brandes † May 25, 1976 . Zeitschrift für Orthopädie 114 (1976), pp. 871-873.
  5. ↑ Kiel Orthopedics only became independent in 1962 under Otto Rohlederer .
  6. ↑ a b c Commemoration of Max Brandes (Dortmund.de) ( Memento from December 2, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ Dissertation on Peter Pitzen (geb.uni-giessen.de)
  8. ^ Peter Pitzen, Archive for Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery 53 (1962), pp. 505–507.
  9. ^ President of the DGOOC
  10. ^ Honorary doctorates from the faculty of the University of Münster. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Brandes, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and orthopedist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Soest
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1976