Siegfried Weller

Siegfried Weller (born July 28, 1928 in Welzheim ; † August 27, 2019 in Tübingen ) was a German trauma surgeon . Until his retirement in 1996, he was medical director of the professional association accident clinic in Tübingen . He has written numerous publications and standard textbooks in trauma surgery.

Life

Weller studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg , Innsbruck and Heidelberg . In 1953 he received his doctorate . From 1954 to 1956 he worked in New York City and continued his education at the Freiburg University Medical Center. In Freiburg , Weller completed his habilitation under Hermann Krauss in 1962 with a thesis on the morphology and function of articular cartilage under normal and pathological conditions. In 1966, Weller became head of the trauma surgery department at the Freiburg University Medical Center, the first institution of its kind in Germany. From 1969 to 1996 he was medical director of the professional association accident clinic in Tübingen . The institute's research institute, which opened in 2012, was named after Weller. Kuno Weise was his successor at the clinic .

He was married and the father of two daughters.

Act

Weller was one of the founding members of the German section of the Working Group on Osteosynthesis Issues (AO Foundation) in 1970 and was its president until 1991. From 1994 to 1996 he was President of the AO Foundation. He was also President of the German Society for Trauma Surgery (DGU) in 1978 and President of the German Society for Surgery (DGCH) in 1982 . He was (co-) founder of the journals Current Traumatology and OP-Journal .

The "Weller database, Weller table" was created under the direction of Weller. This table contains practically all common injury patterns, structured according to the so-called "Weller key". For each Weller key, prognostic assessments of the healing process are given (treatment methods, physiotherapy, healing process, risk of complications, downtime, etc.).

Honors

Siegfried Weller was awarded the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1988 . In 1989 he received the Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach bust from the German Society for Trauma Surgery. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Madras . On Weller's 60th birthday , a surgical symposium was held in Constance together with Ernst Kern's 65th and Jörg Rehn's 70th birthday.

Fonts (selection)

• M. Reifferscheid , S. Weller: Surgery . Thieme, 8th edition 1989, ISBN 3-13-455708-8 .
• Edward L. Compere, SW Banks, CL Compere, S. Weller: Treatment of fractures . Thieme, 1966, ISBN 3-13-316201-2 .
• S. Weller, D. Höntzsch, K. Weise, E. Reisacher: The most common AO implants for operative fracture treatment . Thieme, 1993, ISBN 3-13-782201-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Siegfried Weller in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Uschi Hahn: Siegfried Weller Institute opened . In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt . March 1, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} K. H. Winker: Professor Dr. Dr. hc mult. Siegfried Weller. In: Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery . 394, 2009, pp. 587-588, doi : 10.1007 / s00423-009-0467-y .
3. ↑ A renowned trauma surgeon. Retrieved August 30, 2019 . 
4. ^ KH Winker: Siegfried Weller. More than 35 years of Contribution to AO in Asia.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   In: AO Asia Pacific Newsletter. July 2008, p. 2. (also available via AO Foundation: Happy birthday. )
5. ↑ Accident Clinic of the Accident Insurance Association in Tübingen: Siegfried Weller Institute for Accident Medicine Research ( Memento from May 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 18, 2013.
6. ↑ Personal details (PDF; 177 kB). In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . Volume 93, Issue 23, June 7, 1996, A-1569.
7. ^ German Society for Trauma Surgery: The Presidents of the DGU since 1922. Retrieved on May 18, 2013.
8. ^ German Society for Surgery: Former presidents of the DGCH. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
9. ↑ Olaf Ernst: Quality assurance in the therapeutic treatment of the statutory accident insurance: Measurement of the quality of results in the D-doctor procedure. Diplomica, 2010, ISBN 3-8366-8716-X , p. 7.
10. ↑ Research Society for Applied System Safety and Occupational Medicine (FAS): Control of the healing process .
11. ↑ Personnel . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Volume 85, Number 44, November 3, 1988, pp. A-3084.
12. ^ German Society for Trauma Surgery: Johann-Friedrich-Dieffenbach-Büste. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
13. ↑ Ernst Kern: Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 335.