Robert Wanke

Robert Wanke (born August 1, 1896 in Leobschütz , Upper Silesia , † December 18, 1962 in Kiel ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

Wanke studied medicine at the Julius Maximilians University . In 1919 he became active in the Corps Nassovia Würzburg . As an inactive , he moved to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , which made him Dr. med. PhD. Even in his surgical training, Wanke got around a lot. He was with Anton Eiselsberg in Vienna, Hans von Haberer in Graz and Herbert Olivecrona in Stockholm. He kept scientific contact with colleagues in Padua and Japan ( Komei Nakayama ). As a Catholic he became chief physician of the Protestant hospital in Flensburg . In November 1946 he succeeded his role model and teacher Wilhelm Anschütz in Kiel . As director of the Kiel University Surgical Clinic, he set up the first independent department for anesthesiology . From 1955 to 1963 he was chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Cancer Society. V. In 1949 and 1958 he headed the 63rd and 81st conference of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons . Wanke described himself as a neurosurgeon and vascular surgeon . In 1959 he reported on a thousand vascular surgery interventions, including around 800 trunk resections. He was an extremely versatile surgeon. He sensitized women, colleagues and payers to the early detection of breast cancer . He also dealt with bone tumors , endocrine surgery , gastric surgery , funnel chest , and thoracic outlet syndrome . As a pianist he accompanied the singers Marianne Bergrath and Emmi Leisner . Johann Lubinus paved the way for him to Schleswig-Holstein .

Pathological physiology of fresh, closed brain injury, especially concussion; clinical, anatomical and experimental findings: together with an appendix: therapeutic conclusions . Stuttgart 1948.
with Hartwig Eufinger and Heinz Junge: Surgery of the large body veins with 71 illustrations in 96 individual representations . Stuttgart 1956.
Fractures and dislocations . Munich 1967.

Rüdiger Döhler , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder and Eike Sebastian Debus : Surgery in the North. For the 200th meeting of the Association of North German Surgeons in Hamburg 2017 . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-942825-67-2 , pp. 340–341.

Old Kiel surgery

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 104/645
↑ Dissertation: Gastroenterostomy successes in gastric ulcer .
↑ Wolfgang Teichmann , Christoph Eggers , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder (eds.): 100 Years Association of Northwest German Surgeons . Hamburg 2009, pp. 141–144
^ KH Bauer

personal data
SURNAME	Wanke, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leobschütz , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	18th December 1962
Place of death	Kiel