Willi Felix

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Willi Felix (around 1960)

Willi Caesar Arthur Philipp Felix (born February 10, 1892 in Zurich ; † August 2, 1962 in East Berlin ) was a German surgeon . From 1946 to 1950 he served as director of the surgical clinic at the University of Greifswald and then until 1960 as a professor of surgery at the Charité in Berlin, succeeding Ferdinand Sauerbruch . From 1955 he belonged to the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin and from 1958 to the Leopoldina .

Life

Willi Felix was born in Zurich in 1892 , where his father Walther Felix was Professor of Anatomy at the university there . He studied medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , and was licensed as a doctor in 1917 and received his doctorate two years later . From 1919 to 1927 he worked at the Surgical University Clinic in Munich , until 1920 as a trainee under Ferdinand Sauerbruch , until 1926 as an assistant doctor and from 1926 to 1927 as a senior physician . He then followed Sauerbruch and switched to a senior physician position at the Surgical University Clinic of the Charité in Berlin .

After his habilitation in 1925, Willi Felix became an associate professor four years later and in 1930 a specialist in surgery. After a brief activity as a self-employed doctor, he took over the position of medical director and chief physician of the surgical department at the municipal hospital in Berlin-Neukölln in the same year . At this time he also worked with the later Nobel Prize winner Werner Forßmann and supported him in his work on contrasting the heart. He took on the same positions at the municipal hospitals in Berlin-Britz (1934) and Berlin-Spandau (1941).

In both world wars he served as a medical officer . During the time of National Socialism he was not a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) or the National Socialist German Medical Association (NSDÄB). In the post-war period he took over the management of the surgical clinic at the University of Greifswald in 1946 . Four years later he was appointed to the chair for surgery at the Charité in East Berlin as the successor to Ferdinand Sauerbruch , where he founded an independent department for anesthesia in 1958 . In 1960 he headed the 85th meeting of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons . In the same year he retired . He had living space in the so-called intelligence settlement in Berlin-Schönholz , to which Straße 201 belongs.

Willi Felix was married twice and the father of one child from both marriages. He died at the age of 70 in Berlin-Niederschönhausen and was buried in the Pankow III cemetery.

The physiologist Kurt Felix was his brother.

Act

Will Felix headed the second surgeon conference in Berlin in 1952 and the third in Leipzig in 1955, organized by the GDR health system. In 1951/1952 and 1957/1958 he was chairman of the Berlin Surgical Society . 1960 - before the Berlin Wall was built - he was President of the German Society for Surgery . In the same year he chaired the 85th meeting of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons .

Awards

Willi Felix was a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin from 1955 and of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina from 1958 . He was also an honorary member of the Berlin Surgical Society . In the GDR he received the Hufeland gold medal. In 1960 he was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit .

literature

  • Obituary for Willi Felix. In: Yearbook of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1963, pp. 212/213
  • Werner Forßmann : Willi Felix in memory. In: Zentralblatt für Chirurgie. 87 (4 )/1962. J. A. Barth Verlag, pp. 2049-2051
  • Felix, Willi . In: Werner Hartkopf:The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992,ISBN 3-05-002153-5, pp. 95 f.
  • Rüdiger Döhler , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder and Eike Sebastian Debus : Surgery in the North. For the 200th meeting of the Association of North German Surgeons in Hamburg 2017 . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-942825-67-2 , pp. 106-107.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source for the biographical information: Karl Philipp Behrend: The war surgery from 1939–1945 from the perspective of the consulting surgeons of the German army in the Second World War. Dissertation at the Medical Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg im Breisgau 2003, p. 214
  2. ↑ Contribution to the fight against typhus. Dissertation at the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg, 1919; Information according to the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Werner Forßmann: Self-experiment. Memories of a surgeon. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1972; P. 113 ff.
  4. ^ Max Lingner Foundation: Intelligence settlement
  5. ↑ German Society for Surgery: former presidents of the society ( PDF file , approx. 43.5KB)
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Teichmann , Christoph Eggers , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder : 100 Years Association of Northwest German Surgeons . Hamburg 2009, p. 207
  7. ^ Died: Willi Felix. In: Der Spiegel . Issue 33/1962 of August 15, 1962, p. 66
  8. ↑ Neues Deutschland , November 12, 1960, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Felix, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Felix, Willi Caesar Arthur Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1962
Place of death Berlin-Niederschönhausen