Max Kappis

Max Kappis (born October 6, 1881 in Tübingen , † August 5, 1938 in Würzburg ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

As the son of a businessman, Kappis studied medicine from 1899 to 1904 at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . Since 1899 he was a member of the Ghibellinia country team . After the state examination and the approval he was in 1906 in Tuebingen Dr. med. PhD. His doctoral supervisor was the pathologist Paul Clemens von Baumgarten . He completed his surgical training at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel with Wilhelm Anschütz , where he qualified as a professor in 1913 . Anschütz “praised Kappis' tireless concern for the sick”. From 1914 to 1916 he took part in the First World War as a medical officer in the reserve . In 1918 he received an associate's post in Kiel. In 1922 he went to the surgical department of Hanover's Municipal Hospital I as a senior doctor . There he "created exemplary operating rooms". In 1926 and 1933 he headed the 33rd and 47th meetings of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons in Hanover . From 1926 to 1932 a member of the German People's Party , Kappis joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party in 1933 . On March 1, 1935, on the initiative of the University Commission of the NSDAP, he was appointed to the chair for surgery at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , which Fritz König had represented since autumn 1934 , and was appointed steward of the NSDAP at the medical faculty. Severely overweight, he died at the age of 56 from an “unrecognized disease”. On June 1, 1939, Ernst Seifert received the scheduled professorship for surgery that had become vacant.

Honors

Iron Cross 2nd Class (1915)
Frederick Order I Class (1916)
Red Cross Medal (Prussia) III. Class (1916)
Cross of Honor of the World War

Publications (selection)

War injuries to the upper extremities .
Organization and proper operation of the operating room . Thieme, Leipzig 1927.
Prevention and control of operational dangers . Thieme, Leipzig 1933.
General and Special Surgical Diagnostics: A Textbook for Students and Doctors , 2nd Edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg , Berlin 1937.

literature

Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 881 (with picture).
Isidor Fischer : Biographical Lexicon of the Outstanding Doctors of the Last Fifty Years , Vol. 1. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin Vienna 1932-1933, p. 738.
Wilhelm Anschütz: Max Kappis † . German Medical Weekly 64 (1938), p. 1302 ff.
Marion Hillmer: Max Kappis (1881–1938) the life and work of a surgeon with special consideration of his time in Hanover . Diss. MHH 2004.
Kathrin Noweck: Max Kappis (1881–1938) with special consideration of his Würzburg years . Dissertation, University of Würzburg 2006.
Kathrin Wittmann, Gereon Schäfer, Dominik Groß: The interweaving of Nazi ideology, university administration and science using the example of the Würzburg professor Max Kappis (1881–1938). In: Dominik Groß, Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann, Gereon Schäfer (Ed.): The construction of science. Contributions to the history of medicine, literature and science , Kassel 2008 (= studies of the AKWG . Vol. 3), pp. 239–257.

Web links

Literature by and about Max Kappis in the catalog of the German National Library
Max Kappis (Kiel scholar directory)
Surgery of the sympathetic nerve (SpringerLink)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Max Mechow: Well-known CCer . Historia Academica, Vol. 8/9, pp. 117-118.
↑ Dissertation: Experiments on the spread of urogenital tuberculosis in the case of secretion stasis .
^ Habilitation thesis: Contributions to the question of the sensitivity of the abdominal cavity .
↑ Wolfgang Teichmann, Christoph Eggers, Heinz-Jürgen Schröder (Eds.): 100 Years Association of Northwest German Surgeons . Hamburg 2009
↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 87.
↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Supplement 3.) - At the same time: Dissertation Würzburg 1995), pp. 37-39.

personal data
SURNAME	Kappis, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 6, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH	August 5, 1938
Place of death	Wurzburg

[MM-1] Max Mechow: Well-known CCer . Historia Academica, Vol. 8/9, pp. 117-118.

[2] Dissertation: Experiments on the spread of urogenital tuberculosis in the case of secretion stasis .

[3] Habilitation thesis: Contributions to the question of the sensitivity of the abdominal cavity .

[4] Wolfgang Teichmann, Christoph Eggers, Heinz-Jürgen Schröder (Eds.): 100 Years Association of Northwest German Surgeons . Hamburg 2009

[5] Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 87.

[6] Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Supplement 3.) - At the same time: Dissertation Würzburg 1995), pp. 37-39.