Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp

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Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp (* June 3, 1895 in Bonndorf; † May 2, 1974 in Dottingen) was a German medic and army doctor in the degree of a general.

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Bürkle de la Camps domain was surgery and accident surgery, he qrote many reference book about this 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 labelled after him.

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  • Präsident of Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie (DGCH)
  • Chairmanship in the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie (DGU)

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  1. ^ Ruhr Uni Bochum (ger.)
  2. ^ Sanitätsdienst Bundeswehr (ger.)
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