Hans Kehr

John Otto Kehr, called Hans Kehr (* April 27, 1862 in Walter Hausen, † May 20, 1916 in Berlin) was a German renowned surgeon, founder of the German biliary surgery and non-fiction author.

Life

He was the son of the school board, health educators, seminar director and writer Carl return. After school he studied in Freiburg, Halle, Jena and Berlin medicine. In 1885 he passed his state examination and was awarded his doctorate for Dr. med. 1886/87 he was assistant physician at the private clinic of Dr. Privy Meusel in Gotha, who gave him " the love of Surgery planted into the heart " has. 1887/88 he made in Vienna (courses with Theodor Billroth, the "father of modern abdominal surgery " ) and in Berlin on, before he settled in 1888 as a " special doctor for surgery and orthopedics " for many years in Halberstadt. 1890 brought sweeping autodidactic his first and successful gall bladder operation by, without having previously attended such. 1890 also saw the founding of his known private hospital in Halberstadt. He was a well-known gallbladder surgeon and is considered the founder of this special region in Germany. About 2300 such operations carried out sweeping. In 1896 he was appointed professor in 1905 to the Privy Council. After 23 years of successful work return pulled the end of 1910 to Berlin, where he attended in his last years by numerous publications for public interest. Recovery he found in the nobleman reason at Gehlberg in Thuringia, where he had a summer residence built in 1908, the " bells in the valley ". The residents Gehlbergs over he was very generous. There were even years after his death yearly barbecue parties for the children of the village. He died of blood poisoning, he incurred during an operation. He was rejected because he could not imagine life without his profession A Armamputation. The body was cremated in accordance with the wishes of the deceased in Gotha and has his final resting place on his property in Gehlberg, where the tomb still exists today. To commemorate a lookout northeast of Gehlberg was renamed the beggar head in " Hans- sweeping stone ". For some years now graces this also from a medical symposium in Suhl donated commemorative plaque. Hans Kehr was a passionate admirer of Richard Wagner, had personal contacts with Cosima and Siegfried Wagner, founded a " Wagner of Friends " and initiated multiple Wagner Festival in Halberstadt ("Little Bayreuth ").

The long-time president of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae, Paul Fridolin Kehr, was an older brother.

Honors

• Hans- sweeping memorial stone in Gehlberg in Thuringia
• Hans- sweeping symposium every two years in Oberhof or Suhl

Writings (selection )

• The surgical treatment of gallstone disease. Berlin 1896.
• The experienced in my clinic technique of gallstone operations. Munich 1905.
• The practice of biliary surgery in words and pictures. 2 vols. Munich 1913 ( Kehr's life's work ).
• Surgery of the biliary tract. Stuttgart 1913.