Werner Klinner

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Werner Klinner (born November 28, 1923 in Neudorf , Glatz district ; † February 2, 2013 in Munich ) was a German heart surgeon. Klinner was one of the pioneers in German cardiac surgery. In 1969 he and Fritz Sebening performed the first two heart transplants in Germany under the direction of Rudolf Zenker .

Life

He began his medical studies in Breslau and continued after the Second World War in Marburg / Lahn , where he became assistant to the surgeon Rudolf Zenker in 1952. After studying in the United States in 1957/58, including at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, he returned to Germany and was involved in the first operations using the heart-lung machine in Marburg . From then on, Klinner made merits in the field of infant and pediatric cardiac surgery. In 1961 he received his habilitation with the treatment of Fallot's tetralogy , a congenital quadruple heart defect associated with blue addiction.

In 1966 Werner Klinner became senior physician at the surgical university clinic in Munich, one year later he became an adjunct professor and in 1971 he became a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University . In 1969 he carried out the first two heart transplants in Germany in the Rudolf Zenkers team together with Fritz Sebening (born March 19, 1930; † July 12, 2015) . From 1971 to 1989 Werner Klinner headed the cardiac surgery clinic in Großhadern . Transplants became an integral part of the cardiac surgery spectrum and Klinner, as a pioneer of this development, paved the way for his students, including Bruno Reichart , who also became his successor. The establishment of the German Heart Center in Munich in 1973, for which he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on June 12, 1980, is due to his urging for more operating room capacity . It is also thanks to Klinner that combined heart-lung transplants have been carried out in Großhadern since 1981. He was also a founding member of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery. Klinner also made a significant contribution to developing cardiac surgery in Breslau. For this he was awarded the University of Breslau the honorary doctorate .

Klinner had a son and a daughter and was married twice.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  2. ^ Obituary notice FAZ from July 18, 2015
  3. ↑ Werner Klinner, spiegel.de
personal data
SURNAME Klinner, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German heart surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Neudorf , Glatz district, Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2013
Place of death Munich , Bavaria, Germany