Max Lange (doctor)

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Max Lange

Max Lange (born July 28, 1899 in Dessau , † October 23, 1975 in Solln ) was a German orthopedist and university professor . In the post-war period after the Second World War in Germany , he gained international renown.

Life

In 1917, Lange joined the German army as a war volunteer . He studied medicine at the University of Jena and the University of Leipzig . For his surgical training he was in Leipzig with Erwin Payr , who inspired him with his joint operations. 1923 doctorate he in Leipzig for Dr. med. From 1924 he completed his orthopedic training in the clinic of his uncle Fritz Lange . He completed his habilitation with him in 1929. He resigned in 1937 as senior physician and adjunct professor .

“This time was of particular importance for Max Lange. He came into the tension between Erich Lexer and Fritz Lange. In addition to classical orthopedics, which F. Lange represented, reconstructive and plastic surgery developed under the powerful surgeon Lexer. It is certain - Max Lange said this to me personally - that he recognized even then that reconstructive surgery of the extremities and the trunk belonged to orthopedic surgery. The whole of his life's work shows that he never left any doubts about it and that he combined these areas of work in his clinic, like his former colleagues in theirs. Today that is a matter of course, but it was not between 1945 and 1955. And this is how the development of post-war orthopedics in Germany must be seen. It must be emphasized, however, that Max Lange never neglected classical, including mechanical, orthopedics and took the problems of rehabilitation extremely seriously. "

- AN Witt (1976)

At the beginning of the Second World War , Lange was commissioned to build a post-treatment hospital in Munich's Hohenzollernstrasse. Since the follow-up treatment for him began with reconstructive surgery, the military hospital (like the clinic in Bad Tölz later) became “one of the most outstanding reconstructive surgical workplaces”. During the war and afterwards, visitors from all over the world came to study the new working methods and the treatment successes of the clinic. In 1944, Lange was a member of the advisory board of the authorized representative for health care Karl Brandt .

While still a US prisoner of war , Lange braced himself in Bad Tölz against the rude attempt by the American military government to evacuate the reserve hospital with the seriously injured. Finally she urged him to turn the hospital into a hospital for disabled people . The state care hospital in Bad Tölz was created with 600 beds, an achievement in the history of medicine . As in the hospital since 1943, Alfred Nikolaus Witt was Lange's great help. The first care hospital in Bavaria was “for decades the point of contact and the last hope for thousands of severely disabled people”. Despite the immense clinical work, Lange remained scientifically active and was editor of the Orthopädie magazine . For many years he was secretary of the German Orthopedic Society . He founded the International Yearbook for Reconstructive Surgery and Traumatology and was a highly respected member of the Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie (SICOT).

Was completed only when the construction of the VKH, 1954 followed long the reputation of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich on her chair in orthopedics. As director , he was responsible for the structural expansion and modernization of the clinic. In 1968 he retired .

No honorary title honored Lange more than "father of the disabled". With his love for the Isarwinkel he was buried on October 27th in the cemetery of Lenggries .

Works

  • The vertebral joints - the radiological representation of their pathological changes and their relationship to the various diseases of the spine. At the same time a contribution to the pathology and clinic of the entire spine , 2nd edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1936.
  • Muscular rheumatism . Steinkopff, Leipzig Dresden 1939.
  • Orthopedics and paediatrics . Enke, Stuttgart 1943; 2nd edition 1943.
  • War orthopedics . Enke, Stuttgart 1943.
  • Accident orthopedics including the late treatment of war injuries . Enke, Stuttgart 1949.
  • Basics of the assessment of spinal injuries and diseases . Springer, Berlin 1951.
  • Orthopedic-surgical operation theory . Bergmann, Munich 1951; 2nd edition 1962.
  • The human hand . Enke, Stuttgart 1956.
  • Textbook of orthopedics and traumatology , 3 volumes. Enke, Stuttgart 1967.

Honors

  • Corresponding member and honorary member of 15 non-German professional societies
  • Chairman (1956) and Honorary Member (1958) of the International College of Surgeons
  • Bavarian Order of Merit
  • Name giver for the rehabilitation clinic Prof. Max Lange and the Prof.-Max-Lange-Platz in Bad Tölz

literature

  • Alfred Nikolaus Witt: Max Lange . Zeitschrift für Orthopädie 114 (1976), pp. 145-146.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lange, Max (NDB)
  2. ↑ a b Dr. Hermann Mayr: Farewell to the "father of the disabled". Prof. Max Lange is laid to rest today in Lenggries. Closely associated with Lenggries . Tölzer Kurier, October 27, 1975.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Obituary by AN Witt
  4. ↑ Dissertation: The primary pulmonary focus in tuberculosis in children .
  5. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The seam and the suture material in orthopedics (Zeitschrift für Orthopädie 1929)
  6. ^ Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 356
  7. ↑ 110 years of the DGOOC and 60 years of the DGU - 120 years of the "Journal for Orthopedics, Orthopedic Surgery and Trauma Surgery" (Thieme)
  8. ↑ a b c Munich Mercury (1969)
  9. ^ Rehabilitation clinic Prof. Max Lange
personal data
SURNAME Long, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orthopedist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1975
Place of death Should