Hermann Krukenberg

Hermann Krukenberg ( born June 21, 1863 in calbe, † October 2, 1935 in Wernigerode ) was a German physician and orthopedic surgeon. Hermann Krukenberg is the grandson of Peter Krukenberg and brother of Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg and Georg Krukenberg.

Krukenberg studied medicine in Strasbourg, Bonn and Heidelberg. In the following years he was assistant to Friedrich Trendelenburg in Bonn and Max Schede at the University Hospital Hamburg- Eppendorf. 1892 Krukenberg was managing director of a private clinic in Halle ( Saale). In 1899 he accepted a position as chief physician at the city hospital in Legnica. From 1907 he led a surgical private hospital in Elberfeld.

As a field doctor during the First World War he developed a surgical technique in which, after amputation of a hand through the columns of the forearm a grasping movement is made possible ( Krukenberg plastic).