Werner Lembcke

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Werner Lembcke (born March 30, 1909 in Rostock , † August 10, 1989 in Schönebeck (Elbe) ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Career and work

Werner Lembcke was born as the son of the locomotive driver and later railway depot manager Karl Lembcke (1872–1946) and his wife Emma, ​​née. Brüggert (1878–1947) was born in Rostock. After graduating from high school in Güstrow in 1928 , he began studying human medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena that same year . During his studies he switched to the universities in Rostock and Munich . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Rostock and Munich . He finished his studies in Jena in 1934 with the medical state examination. In 1935 he was in Jena on the subject Some atypical cases of multiple sclerosis his dissertation doctorate . In the next three years he received the neurological-psychiatric specialist training as an assistant doctor at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Jena. He then went back to Rostock in 1938, where he worked as a surgeon until 1953. During the Second World War he served as a medical officer in the Air Force. From 1938 to 1940 Lembcke was an NSDAP candidate and later a nominal member of the NSDAP. In Austria he went into captivity in May 1945 and was released in August of the same year. In 1950 he was asked about the subject of the cerebral commotio, is mechanical damage to the brain tissue in the foreground of clinical events? habilitation . In 1952 Werner Lembcke became a professor of surgery with a teaching position at the University of Rostock. A year later he moved to the Magdeburg Medical Academy , where he was director of the surgical clinic of the Gustav Ricker Hospital until his retirement in 1974. Peter Heinrich was appointed his successor in 1975 .

Lembcke was a recognized brain surgeon who worked primarily in the field of brain tumors , encephalitis and traumatic brain injuries. At his instigation, the GDR's first emergency ambulance, “Rapid Help”, was put into operation on January 21, 1960 .

Honors

Werner Lembcke became a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1968 and an honorary member of the Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy of the GDR in 1983. In 1983 he was presented with the Ferdinand Sauerbruch Medal . Lembcke was Honored Physician of the People and received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1960 .

Publications (selection)

  • Bleeding, hemostasis, blood substitute. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1955.
  • with Rolf Emmrich : shock and shock treatment. Issue 3, Thieme , Leipzig 1974.
  • On the technique of prefrontal leukotomy. In: Zentralblatt für Chirurgie. Volume 75, 1950, pp. 754-756.
  • Allergy from a surgical point of view. In: Langenbeck's archive for clinical surgery. Volume 295, 1960, pp. 197-206.
  • Mental disorders in the surgically ill. In: Langenbeck's archive for clinical surgery. Volume 298, 1961, pp. 530-533.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by Werner Lembcke in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 249.
  3. ↑ a b Entry on Werner Lembcke in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
  4. ↑ Lembcke, Werner, Prof. Dr. med. habil. University of Magdeburg, as of February 10, 2005, accessed on January 4, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Lembcke, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1989
Place of death Schönebeck (Elbe)