Paul Leopold Friedrich

Paul Leopold Friedrich ( born January 26, 1864 in Roda, Saxe-Altenburg, † January 15, 1916 in Königsberg i Pr ) was a German surgeon, professor and medical officer.

Life

After completing his medical studies at the University of Leipzig in 1892 he court physician to King Albert of Saxony and the end of 1892 Residency at the Surgical University Hospital in Leipzig. In 1894 he habilitated. In 1896 he became director of the Surgical University Polyclinic to Leipzig in 1903 as a successor to August Bier Director of the University Surgical Clinic of the University of Greifswald. In 1905 he undertook together with his senior physician Ferdinand Sauerbruch tests for thoracic surgery. In 1907 he was appointed to the University of Marburg. In 1911 he took over the chair at the Albertus University of Königsberg. There was his pupil and successor, Martin Kirschner.

During the First World War he served from August 1, 1914 as the Advisory Surgeon General and senior physician at the First Army Corps, when it came to East Prussia to the Russian attack. Already at the Battle of Gumbinnen on August 19 and 20, 1914, he worked in a field hospital. A letter to his wife dated 22 August 1914 in which he reported on the dramatic events, one of the few direct traditions of the academic elite of East Prussia in the first weeks of the war. Through his tireless use as a military doctor, he retired to severe kidney and heart disease, where he died in January 1916.

According to their own animals, he called in 1896 to cut a wound within 6 hours. With Ferdinand Sauerbruch, he worked on the development of thoracic surgery.

Quotes

" Being poor is hard, poor and ill be even harder, so is the nicest house that we build, for the poor sick man is good enough. "

"This is something of wounded - onslaughts of distress call of blood and shattered young human bodies. It is impossible to describe. "

Family

Frederick married in 1900 Charlotte von Bülow ( 1878-1973 ), daughter of the President of the Senate of the Reich Court Karl Friedrich Julius von Bülow. The marriage produced four sons and a daughter were born, including

• Carl Joachim Friedrich, Professor of Political Science at Harvard and Heidelberg
• Andreas Friedrich Otto, entrepreneur and president of the Confederation of Employers' Associations