Paul Sudeck

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Paul Sudeck

Paul Hermann Martin Sudeck (born December 28, 1866 in Pinneberg , † September 28, 1945 in Saalfeld / Saale ) was a German surgeon.

Life

Grave slab for Paul Sudeck on the family grave cemetery Ohlsdorf

Paul Sudeck studied human medicine at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . In 1885 he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia . 1890 doctorate he attended the University of Würzburg to Dr. med. He began his training with Eduard von Rindfleisch . He then worked as an assistant doctor at the General Hospital in Hamburg-Eppendorf , where he was able to complete his habilitation . In 1919 he was appointed associate professor . In 1923 he succeeded Hermann Kümmell as director of the surgical university clinic in Eppendorf . In 1935 he retired . After the election victory and the seizure of power by the National Socialists , Sudeck signed the confession of the German professors to Adolf Hitler on November 11, 1933 . Sudeckstraße, located near the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, is named after him.

He is the father-in-law of the surgeon Helmut Remé (1909–1980), professor of surgery in Lübeck.

Paul Sudeck was buried in the Sudeck / Vogler family grave , Ohlsdorfer Friedhof in Hamburg, grid square M 24 (about across the water tower / Cordesallee ), mirror image of the Vogler family grave.

Services

In 1901, Paul Sudeck first used ether intoxication as a short-acting narcotic and reintroduced anesthesia with laughing gas into surgery in Germany. His main achievements were in the field of bone surgery: He dealt with changes in bone structure, callus formation in bone fractures and pseudoarthroses . The reflex or algodystrophy he described in 1900 bears his name as Sudeck's disease . Today the term complex regional pain syndrome is used for the clinical picture .

Honors

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 518
  2. a b Hans Killian : Master of Surgery . Thieme, Stuttgart 1980, p. 415
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 615.
  4. Celebrity Graves
  5. On the history of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons, 125th conference, 12. – 14. June 1980, p. 24.