Otto-Karl Sperling
Otto-Karl Sperling (born August 7, 1917 in Halle (Saale) , † March 7, 1996 in Düsseldorf ) was a German surgeon, orthopedist, sports medicine specialist and university professor.
Life
As the son of the medical council Dr. med. dent. Otto Sperling attended Sperling's Latina (school) . After graduating from high school , he began to study medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in the winter semester of 1937/38 . In the same semester he became active in the Kösener Corps Makaria Munich . In 1942 he completed his medical studies, some of which he also completed at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and with the Wehrmacht medical service , in Munich with a state examination and doctorate . Until the end of the war he was a military doctor in the army (Wehrmacht) , most recently in the rank of senior doctor. R. in a reserve hospital . For his special medical commitment he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class. In the last year of the war he married Marianne Elisabeth Aldehoff in Halle .
Released from Soviet captivity in October 1945 , he went to the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Halle for surgical training. There he became a specialist in surgery in June 1950 . He then completed specialist training for orthopedics in the orthopedics department of the surgical university clinic in Halle by March 1953. In April 1953 he was appointed first senior physician at the newly established orthopedic university clinic and thus deputy to his corps brother Peter Friedrich Matzen . At the end of 1955 he followed him to the Orthopedic University Clinic in Leipzig. Immediately after completing his habilitation in the winter semester of 1958/59, he moved to the Humboldt University in East Berlin as a professor . He expanded surgical orthopedics and established the field of sports medicine with clinical research. In the winter semester 1960/61 he was appointed full professor for orthopedics. Immediately after the Wall was built , he and his family fled across the Green Border to the Federal Republic of Germany in August 1961 . After some practice substitutions, he came to work as a "research assistant" in 1962/63 with his corps brother Otto Rohlederer in the orthopedics department of Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He soon opened a doctor's practice in Düsseldorf and operated as a visiting doctor in a private clinic. Throughout his life he resented his West German colleagues for refusing him a chair .
The regional association of Rhineland-Westphalia of the industrial employers' liability insurance association appointed him the leading consulting doctor and orthopedic expert. He was appointed to the Federal Committee for Competitive Sports of the German Sports Confederation and was responsible for the German Olympic teams at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico, the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He was Vice President of the European Federation for Sports Medicine.
Honors
- Iron Cross 1st class
- Band award of the Corps Marchia Brno in Düsseldorf (1965)
- Corps ribbon carrier of the Normannia Hall (1974), later he received the ribbon
- Honorary member of the Association of Sports Physicians of France
- Honorary member of the Association of Sports Doctors in Austria (later the Austrian Society for Sports Medicine and Prevention)
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1984)
literature
- Karl-Georg Pulver : In memoriam Otto-Karl Sperling . Märkerbrief No. 82, Trier 1997.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1971, 110/812; 18/213
- ↑ Dissertation: Thoracoplasty for cavernous pulmonary tuberculosis in its indication .
- ↑ thesis: tissue replacement by plastics
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1981, 22/573
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sperling, Otto-Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon, orthopedist, sports medicine specialist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1996 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |