Walther Asal

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Walther Asal (born June 14, 1891 in Bruchsal , † April 21, 1987 in Birkenfeld ) was a German general staff doctor and surgeon .

Life

Asal was from October 21, 1909 a member of the Kaiser Wilhelms Academy for military medical education . At the same time he did his service as a one-year volunteer in the 2nd Guard Regiment on foot in the Prussian Army . He became a member of the Pépinière-Corps Suevo-Borussia. Promoted to junior doctor at the beginning of World War I , he was battalion and regimental doctor in the 9th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 170 until December 1918 and was temporarily employed as an adjutant to the division doctor of the 52nd Division . His achievements were honored with the award of both classes of the Iron Cross and the Knight's Cross, 2nd class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion with Swords.

In 1919 he was supported by the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin to Dr. med. PhD. He initially worked at the 1st Medical Clinic of the Charité . Admitted to the Reichswehr and only promoted to staff doctor in 1920, he served as a battalion doctor in the 5th Artillery Regiment . Between October 1919 and October 1922 he worked temporarily in the surgical-gynecological clinic Elisabethenhaus in Ulm . From 1922 to 1925 he worked with Eugen Enderlen in Heidelberg surgery, then at the Württemberg State Midwifery School and Women's Clinic in Stuttgart. For shorter training courses he was at the X-ray Institute of Siemens-Werke in Berlin-Siemensstadt , with Richard Werner in the Heidelberg radiotherapy , with Georg Magnus at the Bergmannsheil Accident Hospital in Bochum, with the urologist Alexander von Lichtenberg at the St. Hedwig Hospital in Berlin and with the Würzburg neurosurgeon Wilhelm Tönnis .

Asal was head of surgery in the Ulm hospital from 1925 to 1930 and then in the Dresden hospital until 1936. After twelve years as a medical officer, he was promoted to senior staff physician in 1932, senior field physician in 1935 and senior physician in 1937. After two years as a resident physician in Dresden, he was a division physician in the 4th Infantry Division for two years from 1938 . On March 11, 1940 he was corps physician of the XI. Army Corps . He joined the Panzer Army Africa on August 13, 1941 and was promoted to doctor general on September 1, 1941. Seriously ill in the summer of 1942, it took him two years to recover. From August 1, 1944 to March 1, 1945 he was the third and last commander of the Military Medical Academy (newly founded in 1934) . Since November 9, 1944, he was General Staff Doctor, and from March 1, 1945 he was chief medical officer at the Wehrmachts Staff North. From July 22, 1945, he remained in this liquidation role for the British military government . From 1946 to 1947 he was a British prisoner of war . After his discharge, he was chief surgeon and medical director of the Siloah hospital in Pforzheim from 1948 to 1963 .

Publications

  • Use of Psikain in surgery and urology. Medical clinic 1924.
  • Case history of skin fibroids. German Medical Weekly 1925.
  • Genesis of traumatic hematomyelia. Publications of the Army Medical Service 1930.
  • Modern war surgery. Central Journal for Country Doctors 1935.
  • Meniscal injuries in soldiers. Publications of the Army Medical Services 1935.
  • Overuse damage to the bone system in soldiers. Clinical Surgery Archives 186 (Congress Report 1936).
  • Creeping fractures. Publications of the Army Medical Services 1936.
  • War surgery experience. Special edition of the Army Medical Inspection 1944.

See also

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Rövekamp: The Generals of the Army 1921–1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 1: Abberger – Bitthorn. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2423-9 , pp. 109-110.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Master list of the KWA
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 61/408
  3. ↑ Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1924, p. 103.
  4. ^ Dissertation: A contribution to the casuistry of melanoma.
  5. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: Rommel's Desert Commanders: The Men who Served the Desert Fox, North Africa, 1941-1942. (GoogleBooks)
personal data
SURNAME Asal, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general staff doctor and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchsal
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1987
Place of death Birkenfeld (Württemberg)