Wolfgang Kuenzel

Wolfgang Künzel (born July 28, 1936 in Zwickau ) is a German gynecologist and obstetrician.

Life

Wolfgang Künzel began to study medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1955 he became active in the Corps Teutonia Marburg . When he was inactive , he moved to the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . There he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He completed his specialist training and in 1971 became senior physician at the Hanover Medical School . There he completed his habilitation in 1971. After a research stay from 1976 to 1979 at the State University of New York , he went to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg as a senior physician . In 1980 he was appointed to the chair for gynecology and obstetrics at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen as one of the youngest C4 professors . He was director of the Gießen University Women's Clinic until his retirement in 2002. Hans-Rudolf Tinneberg was appointed as his successor .

Künzel was a member of the university's ethics committee as well as a member of numerous national and international societies and commissions and experts in the state medical association. He was co-editor in Chief of the European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Biology and co-editor of the journal Der Gynäkologe .

From 1994 to 1996 he was President of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics . In his last year of presidency he organized the gynecological congress in Dresden.

Honors

• Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FRCOG)
• Fellow of the European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (FEBCOG)
• Honorary member of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics
• Elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1997)
• Honorary member of the German Society for Perinatal Medicine (2009)
• Dr. Richard Hammer Medal from the State Medical Association of Hesse (1996)

Fonts

• The degenerative diseases of the connective tissue of the hand: Dupuytren's contracture, ganglia, jerking fingers, tendovaginitis stenosans. Dissertation , Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1962
• Oxygen uptake, blood flow and vascular resistance in the pregnant uterus. Habilitation thesis , Hannover Medical School 1971
• Tokolysis: Significant in premature rupture of the bladder, in disturbed intrauterine growth and in surgical deliveries. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-540-13757-2
• Fetal heart rate monitoring: Clinical practice and pathophysiology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-540-15313-6
• with Karl Heinrich Wulf : premature birth. Urban and Schwarzenberg, 1997, ISBN 3-541-30721-8
• CTG book: write! understand! act! . Urban & Fischer , Munich 2002, ISBN 3-437-22770-X

literature

• Hans Ludwig , Walter Jonat : German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics - From Program to Embassy. A short history (1886-2008) of the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics reviewing its 57 congresses. 2nd edition 2008. German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics, ISBN 3-00-009676-0 .

Web links

• Künzel celebrates farewell to the women's clinic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 171 , 1490.
2. ↑ Dissertation: The degenerative diseases of the connective tissue of the hand: Dupuytren's contracture, ganglia, triggering fingers, tendovaginitis stenosans .
3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Oxygen uptake, blood flow and vascular resistance in the gravid uterus .
4. ↑ Press release of the University of Giessen: Prof. Wolfgang Künzel receives the Federal Cross of Merit , January 21, 2016, last call: July 2, 2017.
5. ↑ Member entry of Wolfgang Künzel (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 18, 2016.
6. ↑ Names and Messages. Deutsches Ärzteblatt 106 (2009); (31-32): A-1571, on- line .
7. ↑ Dear. Deutsches Ärzteblatt 93 (1996), A-2807, online (PDF document; 153 kB).