Werner Wachsmuth (medical doctor)

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Werner Wachsmuth, 1960s
Signature: Prof. F. Wachsmuth

Werner Curt Ferdinand Wachsmuth (born March 29, 1900 in Rostock ; † June 7, 1990 in Würzburg ) was a German surgeon, medical officer and university professor.

Life

Werner Wachsmuth was born as the son of the then associate professor Richard Wachsmuth and his wife Marie, geb. Springer (1876-1953). The parents had married in Berlin in 1896 and moved to Göttingen, where Werner's sister Anne-Sabine was born. After Werner's father, a former assistant to the experimental physicist Hermann von Helmholtz , had received a call to Rostock, the family moved to Rostock two years later to Prinzenstrasse 4. From 1907 on, Wachsmuth grew up in Frankfurt am Main , Grillparzerstraße 83, where he attended the Wöhler-Realgymnasium and from 1909 to 1917 the humanistic Lessing-Gymnasium . In Frankfurt, his father was a board member from 1915 and president of the Polytechnic Society from 1932 to 1936 . As a seventeen year old Werner Wachsmuth took part in the First World War. He studied medicine at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 1919 he became active in Corps Suevia Tübingen and Corps Rhenania Würzburg . In 1923 he passed the exam at the new Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From the medical faculty he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD .

He began his medical training in Munich with Friedrich von Müller in internal medicine and with Eugen Enderlen in Heidelberg surgery. 1924 traveled to India as a ship's doctor. In 1928 he went to Bonn with Erich von Redwitz at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . There he completed his habilitation in 1930. When he had to leave the university for political reasons in the 1930s, he joined the Reichswehr in order not to have to become a member of a National Socialist organization. Since 1935 medical officer and chief physician of the surgical department of the Leipzig hospital , he was able to gain a professorship at the University of Leipzig . In the same year he became chief physician at the hospital location in Munich, he that at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich umhabilitierte . In 1936 he was appointed associate professor by the LMU . From 1939 to 1942 he was an advisory surgeon at the Army Medical Inspector and Head of the Special Surgical Hospital of the Army High Command . In 1942, the medical service leaders met in Krasnodar . Ferdinand Sauerbruch , Siegfried Handloser , Emil Karl Frey , Lorenz Böhler and Wachsmuth discussed the question of whether the new intramedullary nail should be introduced by Gerhard Küntscher . Above all, the rather "conservative" Böhler made the positive decision. From 1940 to 1944, Wachsmuth was in charge of the special surgical hospital of the Army High Command in Brussels . He dealt intensively with shock , collapse and external tensioners for treating broken bones . Alone with Sauerbruch, whom he described as his teacher, he traveled to the theaters of war for weeks. Contrary to a “Führer order”, he refused in September 1944 to leave his 1,200 seriously wounded patients to the enemy and the raging mob. He and his staff stayed with them. When the Allies landed in Normandy , Wachsmuth saved 5,000 Belgians who were to be deported as political prisoners. While in British captivity (1944-1946) he was in command of the prisoner-of-war hospitals in Watford and Swindon .

In the post-war period in Germany , on August 15, 1946, he followed the call of Julius Maximilians University to its chair for surgery as a full professor . As director, he managed the reconstruction of the surgical clinic located in Josef-Schneider-Straße 2 (building 6 and building 7), which the bombing raid on Würzburg had destroyed on March 16, 1945 , and the Luitpold hospital he directed. As a member of the Medical Faculty, he was a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Würzburg in 1948. In 1969, he was 69 years emeritus . Ernst Kern (who had been Wachsmuth's assistant from 1952 to 1954) took over the ordinariate and management of the surgical university clinic on September 1, 1969 (Wachsmuth Kern, who in the summer of 1968 as part of Wachsmuth's main college, had a of three trial lectures, announced that he wanted him to be his successor in Würzburg). Wachsmuth held his farewell lecture on June 28, 1969. The eulogy for Wachsmuth's 70th birthday was held by his successor, Kern, on March 29, 1970. Even after his actual professional activity, Wachsmuth was active in medicine, working in the field of medical ethics and dealing with legal issues in surgery. When Wachsmuth died at the age of 91, the funeral service was celebrated on June 13, 1990 in the Würzburg Deutschhauskirche .

Together with the anatomist Titus von Lanz, he founded the practical anatomy at Springer-Verlag in 1935 . It should provide anatomically accurate representations for the practicing surgeon. Medical draughtsmen such as Siegfried Nüssl , who taught medical drawing at the Munich Art Academy, and later Irmgard Daxwanger, Ludwig Josef Grassl, H. Hoheisel, Jörg Kühn and Julius S. Pupp were recruited. The work appeared in several volumes until the 1990s.

Wachsmuth was in close friendship with Rudolf Nissen all his life. Since Nissen had survived the period of National Socialism in the external and Wachsmuth in the internal emigration, "their autobiographies complement each other in an excellent way and represent an essential piece of the mosaic for contemporary history of the 20th century".

A daughter was born from a marriage in 1932, and Wachsmuth had two sons.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • with Titus von Lanz : Practical Anatomy. Several volumes. 1938.
  • The surgical indication. Lecture held on the occasion of the reopening of the Julius Maximilians University on March 12, 1947. Schöningh, Würzburg 1947 (= Würzburg University Speeches . Volume 4).
  • General and special surgical operation theory. Volume 10: The operations on the extremities. 1972.
  • Medical problems of the vacation. Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1973.
  • Progress as a medical problem. (Lecture given on December 11, 1979 for the Polytechnische Gesellschaft e.V.), Polytechnische Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main 1979.
  • Speeches and essays 1930–1984. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1985. ISBN 978-3-540-15246-0 .
  • A life with the century . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1985. ISBN 3-540-15036-6 (autobiography).

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Werner Wachsmuth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Werner Wachsmuth: Progress as a medical problem. (Lecture given on December 11, 1979 for the Polytechnische Gesellschaft e.V.), Polytechnische Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main 1979, p. 5
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 129/792; 143/505
  3. ↑ Dissertation: About so-called white bile .
  4. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd, revised and expanded edition, KG Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-25030-9 , volume 10, p. 328.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Curriculum vitae. In: Werner Wachsmuth: A life with the century. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1985. ISBN 3-540-15036-6 , p. 239 f.
  6. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The right to surgical intervention .
  7. ↑ a b Gerhard Hartmann (Greiz) in: The surgeon . 8, 1986.
  8. ↑ Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 11.
  9. ^ Inaugural lecture on March 12, 1947: The surgical indication .
  10. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 6 f. and 19 f.
  11. ↑ Hans-Peter Bruch, R. Broll: Laudation on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. med. Ernst Kern. In: Surgical gastroenterology. Volume 10, 1954, p. 5 f.
  12. ↑ Werner Wachsmuth: Farewell Lecture [...] held on June 28, 1969 in the lecture hall of the Surgical University Clinic in Würzburg. In: Bayerisches Ärzteblatt. Volume 24, 1969, pp. 951-958.
  13. ↑ Ernst Kern: Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , pp. 19, 33 and 320 f.
  14. ↑ Götze: The Springer publishing house. Volume 2. Springer 1994, p. 47 f.
  15. ↑ Werner Wachsmuth: A life with the century. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1985. ISBN 3-540-15036-6 , pp. 55, 152, 156 f., 216, 239 f. and 246.
  16. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Werner Curt Ferdinand Wachsmuth
personal data
SURNAME Wachsmuth, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wachsmuth, Werner Curt Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon, medical officer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1990
Place of death Wurzburg