Wolfgang Küßwetter

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Wolfgang Küßwetter

Wolfgang Küßwetter (born July 27, 1940 in Munich , † November 11, 1998 in Tanzania ) was a German orthopedist and university professor.

Life

Küßwetter's family was evacuated to Linderhof during World War II . From there she moved to Ramsau near Berchtesgaden . The father Georg Küßwetter was forester and member of the Corps Hercynia . Since he had assisted the Corps Suevia Munich in the struggle with the National Socialists, in 1946 he was the only one in the 20th century to be awarded the Swabian ribbon.

Since autumn 1959, Wolfgang Küsswetter has been studying medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University and the University of Innsbruck . In the first semester he became active at Suevia. With a doctoral thesis with Max Lange , he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . In 1968 he went to South Africa as a medical assistant for a year to gain experience in acute surgery. From 1969 to 1971 he worked as a secondary doctor with Jörg Böhler at the Linz Accident Hospital . In 1971 Küßwetter began his orthopedic training at the State Orthopedic Clinic in Munich. Specialist in orthopedics since 1974 , he completed his habilitation in 1977 with Alfred Nikolaus Witt at the Ludwig Maximilians University . He was a lecturer and received the right to teach in the subject orthopedics . In 1978 he accepted a C 3 professorship at the Orthopedic Clinic of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . He became senior physician in charge of August Rütt . In 1986 the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen appointed him to its chair for orthopedics. As managing director of the university clinic, he was able to reorganize the clinic clinically and scientifically with the establishment of spinal surgery, endoprosthetics, tumor and rheumatic orthopedics in a very short time. 1988–1990 he was vice dean and dean of the medical faculty. In 1997 he headed the German Sports Medical Congress.

Hunting enthusiasts

As a passionate hunter in Tanzania on the hunt, Küßwetter and two corps brothers were killed in a plane crash. The third Swabian died 14 days later in Munich. Küßwetter left his wife Dagmar nee Oloff (1946–2008) and three daughters. He is buried in the cemetery in Ehingen (Middle Franconia) .

Honorary positions

  • Advisory board of the German Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology
  • Long-time chairman of the orthopedic conference of ordinaries
  • Treasurer of the German Section of the Working Group for Osteosynthesis
  • Editor of various specialist journals

literature

  • Carl Joachim Wirth: Obituary for Wolfgang Küßwetter . Orthopedic Communications 1/1999.

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Küßwetter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1971, 114/1914
  2. Dissertation: Critical considerations on the radiological contrast diagnosis in occult dysrhaphic malbinding of the marrow and its roots with special consideration of the orthopedic interests .
  3. Habilitation thesis: Investigations into the morphology and biomechanics of the membrana interossea antibrachii .