Walter Stoeckel

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Walter Stoeckel

Walter Stoeckel (* 14. March 1871 in Noble small Stobingen or good-Stobingen at Insterburg , East Prussia ; † 12. February 1961 in Berlin ( East )) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician.

Life

Stoeckel studied medicine in Leipzig , Munich , Jena and at the Albertus University in Königsberg , where he received his doctorate in 1896 . He then worked as a ship's doctor . From 1897 to 1898 he was a volunteer at the Bonn Women's Clinic and at the Pathological Institute in Marburg. Further stations were from 1897 to 1903 the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University , where he was trained as a specialist by Heinrich Fritsch . In 1903 he became senior physician at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen with Johann Veit , where he completed his habilitation . In 1905 he was at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin with Ernst Bumm at the Charité , where he became associate professor. From Berlin he was in 1907, although an appeal to the Royal University of Greifswald ran as a full professor at the University of Marburg called from where he in 1910 the reputation of the University of Kiel followed and there until August 31, 1922 stayed. In 1922 he was appointed to the Leipzig University Women's Clinic , where he stayed until 1926, after which he moved to Berlin . There, Stoeckel was Bumm's successor from 1926 to 1951 as director of the university women's clinic and particularly campaigned for the field of gynecological urology .

Stoeckel took over the textbook of gynecology from Heinrich Fritsch with Karl Reifferscheid and wrote it alone from the 2nd edition after Reifferscheid's death.

He contributed significantly to the development of a progressive gynecological clinic at the Berlin Charité at the beginning of the 1930s and held the chair for 25 years . His scientific work included the improvement of the surgical removal of the uterus via the vagina in cervical cancer , which was named after him and Friedrich Schauta Schauta-Stoeckel operation .

During the National Socialist era he was a member of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association and the doctor treating Magda Goebbels . From 1933 to 1935 he was President of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics . Even after his retirement in 1936 he remained active. In 1941, Adolf Hitler awarded him the Goethe Medal for Art and Science . In 1944 he was appointed to the scientific advisory board of the General Commissioner for Sanitary and Health Care Karl Brandt .

Stoeckel continued his work in the Soviet sector of Berlin in the post-war period . As director, he devoted himself to the reconstruction of the I. University Women's Clinic, which had been badly destroyed in the war, as full professor of gynecology at Humboldt University, he led the first gynecological congresses in Jena in 1946 and in Berlin in 1947, and in 1948 he established the Scientific Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Humboldt University , from which the GDR later emerged. The GDR honored him in 1949 with the title of Senior Medical Officer and in 1951, the year he retired , with the National First Class Prize .

Tomb of Walter Stoeckel and his wife Aenne in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin

Honors

Works

  • Obstetrics textbook. (Editor and co-author), e.g. 8th edition, G. Fischer, Jena 1945
  • Gynecology textbook. (sole author since 2nd edition 1927), S. Hirzel, Stuttgart, 1st edition 1924, 11th edition 1947
  • Gynecological urology. 3 volumes, Munich 1938 (= Handbuch der Gynäkologie , 10).
  • Speeches . Thieme, Stuttgart 1952
  • Memories of a gynecologist . 2nd edition Hirzel, Leipzig 1980

literature

Web links

Commons : Walter Stoeckel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2nd updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 604.
  2. ↑ Manfred Stürzbecher : Stoeckel, Walter. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1362.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Thirty cases of total vaginal extirpation of the uterus from the Royal University Women's Clinic in Königsberg i. Pr.
  4. ^ Walter Jonat , Christian Andree, Thoralf Schollmeyer : Kiel University Women's Clinic and Michaelis Midwifery School 1805-2005: a medical-historical study on the 200th anniversary . Georg Thieme Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-13-142031-6 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ Thesis: The cystoscopy in their importance for the gynecologist (part I and II).
  6. ↑ Walter Stoeckel (1871–1961) ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Medical history - gynecological obstetric collection of the University of Greifswald
  7. ↑ Biography of the Humboldt University in Berlin
  8. ^ Horst Kremling : Würzburger Contributions to Gynecological Urology. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 5, 1987, pp. 5-11, here: pp. 7 f.
  9. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Walter Stoeckel
personal data
SURNAME Stoeckel, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Noble Klein-Stobingen near Insterburg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1961
Place of death Berlin