Werner Sauerwein

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Werner Sauerwein (born May 8, 1921 in Trier ; † February 7, 2014 ) was the first anesthetist to be licensed in Germany .

Life

Werner Sauerwein was the son of the dentist Peter Sauerwein and his wife Eva Clasen . In 1939 he made his Abitur at the Kahlkuschen Oberschule in Oberkassel . In 1940 he began studying medicine in Bonn , but had to join the Wehrmacht in the spring of 1941 as part of the Second World War and was wounded in what was then the Soviet Union . In 1942 he was able to continue his studies in Heidelberg . In the winter semester of 1943/44 he worked in the anatomical institute of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg before he was transferred to the Eastern Front in January 1945 .

After the Second World War he was able to resume studying and working at the institute in Heidelberg in December 1945, and in 1947 completed his studies in medicine. In the same year he was with his dissertation about the fixing of the brachial plexus to the intervertebral foramen of the cervical spine doctorate .

On March 20, 1948 he married Inge Sauerwein, b. Walter in Saarbrücken. Werner Sauerwein completed his training as a specialist in anesthesia in Lyon in 1949/50 . From 1950 he initially worked as an assistant doctor under Prof. Dr. Fritz Hesse in what is now the Saarbrücken Clinic and was commissioned to set up an anesthesia and advice center for the then still independent Saarland .

On May 27, 1953, Werner Sauerwein received specialist certification as an anesthetist and was thus the first licensed anesthetist in Germany. He was a founding member of the German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine .

In 1986 he retired .

Publications

  • Via the attachment of the brachial plexus to the intervertebral foramina of the cervical spine. Dissertation, Heidelberg 1947.
  • with Fritz Hesse: Small anesthetic book. 10. rework. Edition. JA Barth publishing house, Leipzig 1967.
  • About curare and its use in anesthesia. In: Zentralblatt für Chirurgie. Volume 75, 1950, p. 1110. (excerpt)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b message of congratulations from the Ärzteblatt Saarland (accessed on May 1, 2011; PDF file; 982 kB)
  2. ↑ We mourn the death of our colleagues. In: Saarländisches Ärzteblatt 5/2014, p. 43, accessed on October 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Werner Sauerwein: About the attachment of the brachial plexus to the formamina intervertebralia of the cervical spine. Heidelberg 1947.
  4. ^ Schüttler: 50 years of the German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. P. 87; Klinikum Akut 1st edition / March 2011, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Sauerwein, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anesthetist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2014