Wolfgang Teichmann

Wolfgang Teichmann

Wolfgang Teichmann (born June 23, 1941 in Greifswald ) is one of the leading German visceral surgeons .

Life

Teichmann studied medicine from 1961 to 1967 at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald . After the license to practice medicine and doctorate to Dr. med. he was trained as a surgeon at the Greifswald University Clinic. In 1972, after only five years, he became a senior physician. As a “citizen of the GDR” he was allowed to sit in “friendly socialist foreign countries” , in Vilnius and Moscow . He completed his habilitation in 1976. In the same year he followed Richard Reding to the Rostock University Hospital . On October 24, 1977 he escaped from the GDR in the trunk of an African diplomat's car. He found a job with Hartwig Kirschner in the Hamburg AK Altona , but had to do his habilitation again. After internships at the Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis , Los Angeles and San Francisco , he became professor and successor to his boss in 1986 . He devoted himself to the difficult field of peritonitis surgery, but was one of the first to recognize the possibilities of endoscopic surgery. As a minimally invasive surgery , it should revolutionize abdominal surgery . In 1990 and 2008 he headed the 146th and 182nd meetings of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons . In January 2009 he was retired willy-nilly at the age of 67 after two extensions . He has a son with his wife, a gynecologist.

Honors

• Member of the Presidium of the German Society for Surgery
• Chairman of the German Society for Visceral Surgery
• Rudolf Nissen Prize (2009)

literature

• Matthias Gretzschel: The surgeon Wolfgang Teichmann. My divided life in east and west. Koehler Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7822-1325-7 .
• Rüdiger Döhler , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder , Eike Sebastian Debus : Surgery in the North. For the 200th meeting of the Association of North German Surgeons in Hamburg 2017 . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-942825-67-2 , pp. 324-325.

Web links

• Publications in the US National Library of Medicine
• Wolfgang Teichmann (Hamburger Ärzteblatt 2009) ( Memento from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Wolfgang Teichmann (German Society for General and Visceral Surgery)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the problem of the dumping syndrome with special consideration of the serotonin theory. Habilitation thesis.
2. ↑ Surgeon escapes in the trunk of a diplomatic car. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . November 9, 2019, p. 13.
3. ↑ Wolfgang Teichmann, Christoph Eggers , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder (Eds.): 100 Years Association of Northwest German Surgeons . Hamburg 2009.