Wolfgang Heipertz

Karl Günther Wolfgang Heipertz (born May 20, 1922 in Neustrelitz ; † October 6, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German surgeon , orthopedist and university professor .

Life

Wolfgang Heipertz, son of the mayor and Mecklenburg-Strelitz State Councilor Otto Heipertz , first attended elementary school and from 1931 the Carolinum grammar school in Neustrelitz and the Schulpforta boarding school in Naumburg . After graduating from high school in Neustrelitz in 1939 and completing labor service, he studied medicine in Halle and Tübingen as well as in Vienna and Munich. As a medic in 1941 in the Wehrmacht for the air force and deployed on the Eastern Front, he was only able to take the state examination in Berlin in February 1945. He received his surgical training in Frankfurt am Main (Ernst Vollhardt), Hanover and Heidelberg, among others. In 1950 he became a specialist in surgery and trauma surgery, and in 1956 in orthopedics.

In 1958, Wolfgang Heipertz became the head doctor of the Diakonie-Anstalt in Bad Kreuznach, but returned to Heidelberg three years later and qualified as a professor in 1962.

From 1966 chief physician of the professional association accident clinic in Tübingen , he was appointed to the orthopedic chair of the Johann-Wolfgang von Goethe-University in 1969 . As medical director of the Friedrichsheim Foundation in Frankfurt am Main, he took care of the structural and technical modernization of the large clinic. In 1990 Heipertz retired . He died on October 6, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main .

He was married to sports scientist and author Christine Heipertz-Hengst . His son is the economist Martin Heipertz , his daughter Katrin Sophie is a veterinarian.

Works (selection)

Visit in the past. A doctor reports. Frankfurt am Main 2000 (autobiography)

literature

Volker Hanisch : Heipertz, Wolfgang. In: Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century . Vol. 16 (2011), Col. 130 f. ( online ).
Ludwig Zichner : On the 80th birthday of Professor Dr. med. Wolfgang Heipertz. In: Hessisches Ärzteblatt. 2002, no. 6, p. 367 ( PDF; 1.7 MB ).
Andreas Mettenleiter : Testimonials, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements II (A – H). In: Würzburg medical history reports. 21, 2002, pp. 490-518; P. 514

Web links

Literature by and about Wolfgang Heipertz in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature about Wolfgang Heipertz in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

↑ From 1940 to 1990 he was a member of a Kösener corps.
↑ Acknowledgments. In: Katrin Sophie Heipertz: The vH ⁺ -ATPase and its importance for the pH regulation in ovine rumen epithelial cells. [Diss.] Free University of Berlin, Berlin 2006.

personal data
SURNAME	Heipertz, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon, orthopedist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 20, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH	October 6, 2013
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] From 1940 to 1990 he was a member of a Kösener corps.

[2] Acknowledgments. In: Katrin Sophie Heipertz: The vH ⁺ -ATPase and its importance for the pH regulation in ovine rumen epithelial cells. [Diss.] Free University of Berlin, Berlin 2006.