Peter Friedrich Matzen

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Peter Friedrich Matzen (born October 11, 1909 in Munich , † November 28, 1986 in Leipzig ) was a German medical officer and surgeon in Halle (Saale) and Leipzig and was a professor of orthopedics .

Life

As the son of a general practitioner, Matzen attended the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich . As a medical officer candidate in the Reichswehr , he began to study medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in 1928 . He became active in the Corps Makaria Munich . As an inactive , he moved to the Albertus University of Königsberg , the Prussian University of Greifswald and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin . After the state examination (1933) he volunteered at the Charité for two years . In 1934 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD .

Medical officer

In the army (Wehrmacht) he was a troop doctor in Bayreuth and medical officer in Coburg from 1935 to 1937 . In 1937 he came to the Military Medical Academy in Berlin as a medical officer and again sat in at the Charité. From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the entire Second World War as a medical officer . From 1939 to 1942 he served in the medical company 244. As a senior field doctor and division doctor (1943/44) he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class. After the fourth wounding , he was transferred to Halle (Saale) in 1944/45 to receive further training in the orthopedic department of the surgical clinic at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . In 1945 he was sent back to the troops and was taken prisoner by the Americans in South Tyrol , where he worked as a camp doctor.

Halle (Saale)

Released in October 1945, Matzen went to Werner Budde's surgery in Halle. He became a member of the Free German Trade Union Federation . In the clinic, he had to reorganize the training of masseurs and physiotherapists . He became a specialist in surgery (1947) and orthopedics (1950) and completed his habilitation in 1951. As a senior physician in Halle's surgery department, Matzen was in charge of the healing center for extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Carlsfeld near Bitterfeld for a short time . Since 1953 full professor in Halle, he added an independent orthopedic clinic from the private clinic of Friedrich Loeffler , the municipal Krüppelheim and the orthopedic wards of the surgical university clinic.

Leipzig

In 1955 he followed the call of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig to the chair of orthopedics. In the following 20 years he made his clinic the most influential orthopedics in the GDR, which was also highly regarded in West Germany and abroad (especially in children's orthopedics ). He reorganized care for the disabled in the Leipzig district . When he publicly opposed the third university reform in the GDR in 1969 , he was suspended by the hospital management for two months and given an unlimited ban on lectures and examinations. 1975 emeritus , he worked four years in the clinic.

Two sons became professors of orthopedics in Leipzig and Munich. Peter Felix Matzen stayed at the University of Leipzig, Klaus A. Matzen became chief physician of the Hessing Foundation in Augsburg.

Works

  • Problems of operative scoliosis treatment (= treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Mathematical-Natural Science Class, Vol. 50.1), Berlin 1968.
  • Orthopedics for students , 5th edition, Leipzig 1981.
  • Orthopedic textbook , 2 volumes, 2nd edition, Berlin 1967.
  • with Friedrich Löffler and Eberhard W. Knöfler: Orthopädische Operationslehre , 2nd edition Berlin 1979.
  • with Horst Kurt Fleissner: Orthopädischer Röntgenatlas , 2nd edition, Stuttgart 1980.
  • with Peter Felix Matzen: Practical Orthopedics , 2nd edition, Leipzig 1990.

Honors

  • Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopedique et de Traumatologie (SICOT) (1958)
  • International Society for Plastic Surgery
  • Honorary member of the Bulgarian Orthopedic Society
  • Honorary member of the German Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology (DGOT)
  • Honorary member of the Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology of the GDR (President 1957 and 1967)
  • Corresponding member of the Orthopedic Association of Italy
  • Corresponding member of the Orthopedic Association Austria
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1959)
  • Fellow of the International College of Surgeons , Chicago (1960)
  • Honored Doctor of the People (1961)
  • Full member (1964–1986) and deputy secretary (1965–1971) of the mathematics and natural sciences class of the Saxon Academy of Sciences
  • President of the Society for Orthopedics of the GDR (1967)
  • Pirogov Medal of the Soviet Orthopedic Society (1973)
  • Erich Lexer Prize of DGOT (1975)
  • Cothenius Medal (1979)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ H. Graßhoff, R. Bethge: History of orthopedics in the GDR . Der Orthopäde, 30 (2001), pp. 724-731.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 88/726.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Investigations into the usefulness of Read's basal metabolic rate formula.
  4. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Can the physiological healing process of the broken bone be accelerated?
  5. ^ Peter Felix Matzen: On the development of orthopedics at the University of Leipzig . Ärzteblatt Sachsen 9 (2005), pp. 460–462.
personal data
SURNAME Matzen, Peter Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical officer and surgeon; Full professor of orthopedics in Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1986
Place of death Leipzig