Willy Baensch

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Willy Albrecht Eduard Baensch (born February 5, 1893 in Magdeburg , † November 1, 1972 in Washington, DC ) was a German physician and surgeon .

Life

After completing his school career, Baensch completed a medical degree at the University of Halle in 1913 . He later moved to the Universities of Leipzig and Munich and finished his studies in 1918. For the next two years he headed the X-ray Institute of the University Clinic in Halle. He then rose to become an X-ray assistant. In the same year he married Erika Praetorius. In 1922 he was in Halle for doctor of medicine doctorate with the thesis on the selection of surgical methods in the Varicenbehandlung . Baensch completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig in 1924 for surgery with the habilitation thesis The results of the X-ray theory of surgical diseases . After his habilitation, he became a private lecturer in surgery at the medical faculty in Leipzig. There he was promoted to unscheduled associate professor for surgical radiology in 1929 and gave up the position as radiographic assistant. Baensch was appointed full professor in 1932 and was full professor at Leipzig University from 1937 to 1945. He also published the journal Röntgenpraxis . In 1940 Baensch was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

From 1944, Baensch was still a member of the scientific advisory board of Karl Brandt , the authorized representative for health care .

After the end of the Second World War , he emigrated to the USA in 1946 . The following year, Georgetown University hired him as a full radiology professor. Baensch died on November 1, 1972 at the age of 79 in Washington.

Baensch belonged to the Black Brigade , in 1933 he had joined both the Sturmabteilung and the Wehrwolf .

Works

  • On the selection of surgical methods in variceal treatment ( dissertation , 1922)
  • The results of the X-ray theory of surgical diseases (post-doctoral thesis, 1924)
  • X-ray diagnostics textbook (Leipzig 1927)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Baensch, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baensch, Willy Albrecht Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American medic and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1972
Place of death Washington, DC