Winrich Mothes

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Winrich Mothes

Winrich Mothes (born October 6, 1935 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Is a German pediatric surgeon. He was a founding member and longstanding Vice President of the Medical Association of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Life

Winrich Mothes was born as the son of the professor for botany at the Albertus University in Königsberg (and later President of the Leopoldina ) Kurt Mothes and his wife Hilda (doctorate in education). He attended school in his hometown until his mother and four children moved to relatives in Plau (Mecklenburg) after their apartment was destroyed in the air raids on Königsberg . The father remained "as the last pharmacist" in Königsberg and was taken prisoner of war by the Soviets at the beginning of April 1945.

Winrich Mothes passed his Abitur in 1953 at GutsMuths-Gymnasium in Quedlinburg. He then studied human medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . After Physikum it was for political reasons relegated . The University of Leipzig made it possible for him to continue his studies. State examination and doctorate A took place in 1959. He passed the compulsory assistant year 1959/60 at the University Clinic Halle (Saale) and in the Polyclinic South (Halle). Mothes then volunteered with the anesthetist Robert Reynolds Macintosh in Oxford for 6 months . At the district hospital in Stralsund, he completed his surgical training with Otto Scholz . The specialist colloquium was in Rostock in 1965. From October 1965 to November 1966 he was trained in pediatric surgery with Waldemar Ch. Hecker at Heidelberg University Hospital . With responsibility for pediatric surgery, he became senior physician at the surgery clinic in Stralsund in 1967. In 1969 he passed the medical examination for pediatric surgery before the central specialist medical commission in Erfurt.

In March 1974 he moved to the Schwerin District Hospital . According to the decision of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic , he was to set up pediatric surgery departments there and at all other district hospitals in the GDR districts . Schwerin Pediatric Surgery became a chief physician division in 1983. When she became fully independent in 1988, Mothes was released from adult surgery. After the German reunification in 1995, Mothes was appointed deputy medical director of the Schwerin Medical Center. In February 1996 he became head of the Center for Child and Adolescent Medicine (Pediatric Surgery and Pediatrics) at the Schwerin Medical Center.

The University of Rostock gave him a teaching position in 1999 . In 2000 he retired. When he was re-elected as Vice President of the Medical Association (2003), Rüdiger Döhler praised him as a “man of the upright gait”. Mothes sat for years in the synod of the Western Pomeranian regional church .

His marriage to his wife Helga had three children. The son Jörn Mothes was for ten years (until 2008) the state commissioner for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for the records of the state security service of the GDR.

Honorary positions

Awarding of the Paracelsus Medal to Dr. med. Winrich Mothes - DÄT 2012 in Nuremberg

Honors

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: For the treatment of femoral neck pseudarthroses with special consideration of the double bolting according to KH Bauer .
  2. ↑ Winrich Mothes. Straightforward thought leader . Deutsches Ärzteblatt 109 (2012), C 938
personal data
SURNAME Mothes, Winrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mothes, Winrich Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatric surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.