Otto Scholz

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Otto Scholz (2006)

Otto Scholz (born June 5, 1916 in Geusa ; † June 10, 2010 in Stralsund ) was a German surgeon in Stralsund.

Life

After graduating from high school in Merseburg and doing labor and military service, Scholz studied medicine at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Leipzig . He passed the state examination in 1942 and received his doctorate in 1943. At the end of the Second World War , Scholz was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a battalion doctor. Wounded twice, he got to know Stralsund during treatment. After an organ concert in Stralsund's Marienkirche , he said to himself: “If you survive - that's where you want to go!”.

After the Second World War he turned to gynecology and obstetrics in Leipzig . In the meantime he was hired as an auxiliary veinologist . In 1947 he worked again as a ward doctor in the gynecological-obstetric department of the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Leipzig . In November 1950 he became senior scientific assistant at the Surgical Polyclinic Institute of the University of Leipzig and, after Herbert Uebermuth was appointed director, his successor as senior physician. During the popular uprising on June 17, 1953 , he treated the injured. Scholz joined the German Society for Surgery in 1957 . With his wife, the internist and radiologist Erika Scholz , he moved to the town on the Strelasund in 1958 . He became the chief physician of the surgical clinic at the Sund hospital . In 1960 he completed his habilitation at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig . At the request of the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross , Otto Scholz got involved in emergency aid for Kivu in the newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960/61 . From 1963 he was chairman of the district committee of the German Red Cross . The Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald appointed him honorary professor in 1969 .

Under Scholz, the Stralsund hospital a. a. an independent department for anesthesiology . In 1981 he retired. He made "a special contribution to abdominal surgery, surgery of the kidneys and adrenal glands, trauma surgery and bone transplantation, as well as medical care for patients, science, the expansion of the health system and national and international cooperation and collaboration", as it said in the laudation for the award of the Paracelsus Medal . He died shortly after his 94th birthday.

Honors

literature

  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt 94, issue 23 of June 6, 1997, page A-1558 / B-1310 / C-1226. ( Online )
  • Jan Armbruster: Scholz, Otto (1916–2010) . In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern. Vol. 2 (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V: Research on Pomeranian History. Vol. 48,2). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22541-4 , pp. 247-250.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Therapy and prognosis of pneumococcal peritonitis .
  2. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Conservative treatment of severe covered brain traumas .


personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Geusa
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 2010
Place of death Stralsund