Otto Goetze (surgeon)

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Grave of Otto Goetze in the central cemetery in Erlangen

Otto Goetze (born June 25, 1886 in Gevelsberg ; † July 19, 1955 in Heidelberg ) was a German surgeon and university professor in Erlangen.

Life

After graduating from high school in Halle , Goetze first studied architecture and civil engineering at RWTH Aachen University for one semester at his father's request . Then he switched to medicine at the Georg August University in Göttingen , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Royal University of Greifswald . In Greifswald he served as a one-year volunteer doctor in the infantry regiment "Prince Moritz von Anhalt-Dessau" (5th Pomeranian) No. 42 . It was 1910, the medical state examination and was in Greifswald to Dr. med. PhD. Goetze then worked at the deaconess hospital in Duisburg, in the internal department of the Stettin municipal hospital and at the pathological institute of the Hamburg-Eppendorf hospital . As a ship's doctor , he traveled to America and around Africa. In 1913/14 he volunteered at the surgical clinic of the Friedrichs University in Halle . At the beginning of the First World War he was employed as a doctor in the V Sea Battalion, and later in the naval hospital in Kiel. In 1917 he returned to the Halle surgery department as a deputy senior physician.

In 1919 he completed his habilitation on diaphragmatic hernias . The inaugural lecture had the topic "surgeon and engineer". With Victor Schmieden he went to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 1921 . In 1929 he followed the call of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen to her chair for surgery. In the same year he became an advisory surgeon in the Reichswehr . In July 1933, as dean of the medical faculty , he initiated a declaration of loyalty to the National Socialist regime, which was signed by the entire faculty. Dismissed in 1945, Goetze was quickly reappointed. 1951/52 he was rector of the University of Erlangen. As a clinician, he was a leader in colorectal cancer surgery in the early 1950s . As in Erlangen in 1933, he led the 1953 conference of the Association of Bavarian Surgeons in Munich . In 1953 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1954 he was President of the German Society for Surgery . That same year he was 68 years emeritus .

The Association of Bavarian Surgeons awards the Otto Goetze Prize every year.

Memberships

Works

  • Injuries to the chest , in: August Borchard , Victor Schmieden: Handbuch der Kriegschirurgie , 1937, 2nd edition 1953.

literature

  • Alexandra Birgit Sommer: Otto Goetze (1886-1955) - life and work . Diss. Univ. Erlangen 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Prof. Dr. Otto Goetze , in: 100 Years of the Association of Bavarian Surgeons
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The Relationship Between Uterine Myoma and Conception .
  3. ↑ a b Otto Goetze (CPH)
  4. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  5. ↑ Member entry of Otto Goetze at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2017.
  6. ^ Former presidents of the DGCH


personal data
SURNAME Goetze, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Gevelsberg
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1955
Place of death Heidelberg