Waldemar Ch. Hecker

Waldemar Christian Hecker (born February 15, 1922 in Potsdam ; † May 27, 2008 ) was a German pediatric surgeon and university professor.

Life

Immediately after graduating from high school, Hecker was drafted into the German Air Force in 1939 . As a front pilot he came to Luftflotte 4 . As the son of a surgeon, he studied medicine. After graduating in the autumn of 1950 he was in 1951 at the University of Hamburg for Dr. med. PhD. At the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf he worked with Hans Heinrich Berg (internal medicine), Albert Lezius and Georg Ernst Konjetzny (surgery). In 1953 he became the first assistant in the surgical department in the Altona children's hospital . From 1957 he was assistant and senior physician to Fritz Linder in the University Clinic Westend of the Free University of Berlin . Sponsored by Linder and commissioned to set up a pediatric surgery department, Hecker completed his habilitation in 1962. In the same year, he followed his boss to the Heidelberg University Hospital . He devoted himself to the same task there as in Berlin and in 1966 also officially became head of department. In 1966 he was elected from among the non-ordinaries to the Senate of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and a member of its constitutional commission. In 1967 he was appointed adjunct professor .

In 1969 he followed the call of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich to its newly created chair for pediatric surgery, the first in Germany. Hecker thus became director of the pediatric surgery clinic in Hauner's Children's Hospital . From 1973 he was a delegate at the German Medical Association . In June 1982 he separated Siamese twins . In philosophical publications he dealt with the quality of life in malformations .

Honors

• Scientific Advisory Board of the German Medical Association (1970)
• Member of the board of the Bavarian State Medical Association
• President of the German Society for Pediatric Surgery (1973–1976)
• Chairman of the University Committee of the Bavarian Medical Association

Works

• Elementary pediatric surgery . Urban & Fischer , Munich 1982, ISBN 3-541-07301-2 .
• Surgical corrections of the intersexual and malformed female genitals . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1985, ISBN 3-662-09087-2 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the question of the treatment of skull base fractures. Dissertation .
2. ^ Problems and clinical features of the congenital atresia of the digestive tract. Habilitation thesis .
3. ^ History of Heidelberg Pediatric Surgery
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Personal details: Prof. Dr. med. Waldemar Christian Hecker. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. 94, Issue 10, March 7, 1997, p. A-616.
5. ↑ Roland Daum: On the 65th birthday of Waldemar Christian Hecker. In: Z. Kinderchir. 42, 5, 1987.
6. ↑ Justin Westhoff: The beautiful new person. In: time online. February 24, 1984.