Walter Lämmerzahl

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Hermann Wilhelm Walter Lämmerzahl (born August 11, 1911 in Schwarzburg ; † September 28, 1981 in Bahrendorf ) was a German surgeon .

Lämmerzahl was born into a family of bakers and confectioners from Schwarzburg. From 1918 to 1931 he attended elementary and high school in his Thuringian hometown. He then studied medicine at the universities of Munich , Halle and Jena . In Jena he was in 1939 with a dissertation "The haptic detecting the spatial directions with changed body position," Dr. med. PhD .
He then completed his training as a specialist in surgery under Friedrich Lotsch in the district hospital in Burg (near Magdeburg) .
In World War II, Lämmerzahl was in the district of Wanzleben conscripted , where in 1944 he Kleinwanzleben an auxiliary hospital founded with 75 beds.
In 1945 he set up a hospital in Bahrendorf Castle , which after expansion with a capacity of 240 beds at times, was used as a hospital until 2002 and was managed by Walter Lämmerzahl as medical director until 1976. The district hospital in Bahrendorf became particularly well known for its care for the injured and severely burned after the railway accident in Langenweddingen on July 6, 1967, with 93 deaths.

In addition to his work at the hospital, Lämmerzahl was involved in many areas of health care for the population. From 1952 to 1959 he was district chairman of the German Red Cross and from 1959 to 1976 chairman of the Magdeburg district . Walter Lämmerzahl was honored as Honored Physician of the People in 1960 and in 1961 with the title of Senior Medical Councilor and received, among other things, the GDR Patriotic Order of Merit in gold and the Hufeland Medal in gold.
Walter Lämmerzahl died in Bahrendorf in 1981 at the age of 70.

literature

  • Corinna Köhlert, Jürgen Blume: Of palaces and fortresses in Saxony-Anhalt. mdv Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2000; 142. ISBN 3-89812-058-9
  • Lieselotte Schlimme: Dr. Walter Lämmerzahl (1911–1981). In: Börde, Bode and Lappwald. Heimatschrift 2001 , Dr. Ziethen Verlag, Oschersleben 2001, pp. 59–63.
  • Heinz Eckhardt: The railway accident in Langenweddingen. In: Börde, Bode and Lappwald. Heimatschrift 1998 Dr. Ziethen Verlag, Oschersleben 1998, pp. 61–64.

Web links

  • Entry in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Lämmerzahl: The haptic recording of the spatial directions with a changed body position Dissertation , Friedrich Schiller University Jena 1939
personal data
SURNAME Number of lambs, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Number of lambs, Hermann Wilhelm Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzburg
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1981
Place of death Bahrendorf