Wilhelm Schink

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Wilhelm Schink (born June 10, 1916 in Berlin ; † March 12, 2004 ) was a German surgeon and university professor in Cologne.

Life

Schink's father was a church music director. After graduating from high school and completing the Reich Labor Service , Schink studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Albertus-Universität Königsberg . Approved in Berlin in 1939 , he began his surgical training with Erwin Gohrbandt . In the same year he was drafted into the army (Wehrmacht) and was used as a troop doctor in Russia, Italy and France until 1945. With a doctoral thesis under Ferdinand Sauerbruch , he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. He received the Iron Cross for his commitment to the rescue and care of the wounded . After a short American prisoner-of-war and rural medical activity in Obergangkofen , he continued his surgical training with Nicolai Guleke in Jena. He completed his habilitation in 1954 with Guleke's successor Heinrich Kuntzen .

Invited by Rudolf Zenker , Schink went to the surgical clinic of the Philipps University of Marburg in 1955 . With Zenker he moved in 1958 to the clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich on Nussbaumstrasse. He followed Zenker's advice and dealt with injuries and diseases of the hand . Appointed associate professor in 1960 , Schink followed the call of the University of Cologne to the chair for surgery II in 1963. He was Georg Heberer's successor at the Cologne-Merheim City Hospital . After training and passion, Schink was a general and trauma surgeon as well as a urologist. His particular interest in hand surgery led to his appointment as a professor at a university for the first time, and this institutional appreciation and Schink's clinical successes were imitated and disseminated. Together with Zenker and Franz Deucher, he was the founder and editor of what was then a new type of contemporary surgery, a loose-leaf collection of operations. Supplementary deliveries should make it easier for subscribers to update. With Dieter Buck-Gramcko , Hanno Millesi and other colleagues, Schink promoted the establishment of hand surgery in Germany. He recognized the importance of microsurgery early on . The surgical microscope was purchased in the mid-1960s and, in addition to loupes, was regularly used for vascular and nerve sutures. At the beginning of the replantation surgery, a total of 22 limbs were replanted in 1976 and 1977. Schink supervised numerous dissertations and 12 habilitations from 1961 to 1983. In 1967/68 he was dean of the medical faculty at Cologne University. Since the war, Schink was married to the gynecologist Brigitte Iwer, senior physician at the University Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Free University of Berlin. The daughter Annette also became a doctor. He survived a heart attack in the last year of his service. As an academic teacher he was convinced of the “limitlessness of our ignorance”. After his retirement he lived in Icking again, just as he did when he was in Munich .

“Man earns his daily bread through the work of his hands; they are his most valuable tool. Submissive to the spirit, the hands put our thoughts into action; and as sensory organs, they convey contact to the environment for the groping blind person. The human hand is distinguished by its ability to grip and touch. It is the task of hand surgery to maintain or restore both properties. "

- Wilhelm Schink

Honors

  • Honorary member of the Association of Lower Rhine-Westphalian Surgeons (1983)
  • Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach bust of the German Society for Trauma Surgery (1990)

literature

  • Volkmar Lent and Peter Brüser: Wilhelm Schink - promoter and advisor of hand surgery . Chirurgische Allgemeine , Volume 18, Issue 10 (2017).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dissertation: Communications on Perthess' disease and its final outcomes in the event of non-treatment .
  2. ↑ Habilitation thesis: A statement on callus formation with additional clinical and experimental investigations .
personal data
SURNAME Schink, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2004