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J Neurol Surg A Cent Eur Neurosurg 2015; 76(01): 83-86
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1382783
Historical Article
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Friedrich Weickmann (1913–1983): Some Reminiscences

Gunther Nisch
1   Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital of Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
*   Retired Head of Neurochirurgische Klinik im Klinikum Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany
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Hartmut Collmann
2   Neurochirurg. Klinik, Abt. Pädiatrische Neurochirurgie, Würzburg, Germany
**   Retired Senior Assistant of Abt. Pädiatrische Neurochirurgie, Neurochirurgische Univ.-Klinik Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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17 December 2013

11 February 2014

Publication Date:
31 July 2014 (online)

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Abstract

Friedrich Weickmann was one of the most distinguished neurosurgeons of the former German Democratic Republic and an eminent representative of the neurosurgical school established by Fedor Krause. For 25 years he was head of the neurosurgical department in Berlin-Buch, which he developed into an excellent nonuniversity center. Weickmann was the first German to publish a comprehensive text on pediatric neurosurgery. He deserves particular credit for defending the autonomy of the neurosurgical specialty and for promoting neuroradiology as a subspecialty of radiology.

Keywords

Weickmann - neurosurgery - history - German Democratic Republic - Berlin-Buch
 

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