Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp
Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp (born 3 June 1895 in Bonndorf; died 2 May 1974 in Dottingen) was a German medic and army doctor with the rank of general.
Life[]
Bürkle de la Camp's domains were surgery and , he wrote many reference books about these themes.
From 1933 till 1962 he was head of the surgery department in the Bergbau-Berufsgenossenschaftlichen Krankenanstalten Bergmannsheil (today: Berufsgenossenschaftliches Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil GmbH) in Bochum. In this time he invented an equipment that made blood transfusion easier and safer.[1]
In his honour the German Bundeswehr awards the Heinrich-Bürkle-de-la-Camp-Medaille[2] for merits in medicine. The plaza in front of the Bergmannsheil, the hospital he worked in, is named after him.
Leadership roles[]
- Präsident of Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie (DGCH)
- Chairmanship in the (DGU)
Sources[]
- ^ Ruhr Uni Bochum Archived 2008-05-10 at the Wayback Machine (ger.)
- ^ Sanitätsdienst Bundeswehr (ger.)
External links[]
- Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp in the German National Library catalogue
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- German military doctors
- 1895 births
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- Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Recipients of the Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross
- German surgeons
- 20th-century surgeons