Rüdiger Döhler FRCSEd (24 August 1948 – 28 September 2022) was a

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Life

Döhler grew up in

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and East Berlin. In 1958, his family fled from the

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to Bremerhaven (then Port of Embarkation for the US troops in Germany). After graduating from a classic-languages school he joined the

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and from 1968 through 1974 studied

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with a break in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

and

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. In 2014 he moved again to

Plau am See Plau am See () is a town in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated 28 km east of Parchim, and 29 km west of Waren. Around 1235 the city was called Plawe, that being the Polabian f ...

, where he died on 28 September 2022.Death notice Rüdiger Döhler, Klinikum Plau am See
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Clinical career

In 1976, Döhler was awarded his doctoral degree at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: link=no, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public research university in the city of Kiel, G ...

. He was trained in

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(L.-D. Leder, Essen), surgery (G. Heinemann, Minden) and

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(W. Blauth, Kiel) and achieved the acknowledgement as orthopedic surgeon in 1983. In March 1984, he went to

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and did clinical work at the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital and, with a grant of the ''Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft'' (German Research Council), performed basic research at the

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( Sean P. F. Hughes). In August 1985 he returned to Kiel, and three years later he moved to the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of stud ...

for spinal surgery (H. H. Matthiass). In 1990, he quit cold orthopedics and re-embarked on (trauma) surgery in Hamburg-Altona. There, he achieved his second acknowledgement as general surgeon (1992) and finished his

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with the neuroanatomist Werner Lierse. After German unification in 1995, he was appointed head of the then new hospital in Plau am See,

Mecklenburg Mecklenburg (; nds, label=Low German, Mękel(n)borg ) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The largest cities of the region are Rostock, Schwer ...

(former GDR). Döhler operated on children from

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and

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for the ''Friedensdorf International'' and, on behalf of the ''Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future'', on former Nazi slave laborers from Poland and Ukraine.

Military

For becoming a reserve officer Döhler joined the

in October 1967. While studying medicine he had his military training in the Territorials.

Publications (selected)

* with S.P.F. Hughes: ''Fibrous dysplasia of bone and the Weil-Albright syndrome''. International Orthopaedics, 10, p. 53-62, 1986 * ''Verletzungsfolgen an Bewegungsapparat und Wirbelsäule'' (Sequelae of trauma). In: A. Reichelt (Ed.), Orthopädie. Stuttgart 1993 * ''Lexikon orthopädische Chirurgie'' (Lexical textbook of orthopaedic surgery). Berlin (Springer) 2003 * ''Brauchen wir neue Hüftendoprothesen?'' (Do we need new hips?). Chirurgische Allgemeine 7 (2006), S. 471-475 * M. Liehn, I. Middelanis-Neumann, L. Steinmüller, J. R. Döhler (Ed.): ''OP-Handbuch. Grundlagen, Instrumentarium, OP-Ablauf'' (Handbook for OR staff), 4. ed.. Berlin, Heidelberg (Springer) 2007 * ''Corps Masovia'', München (Aventinus) 2005 * ''Der Deutsche Idealismus und das Corpsstudententum'', in: S. Sigler (Ed.) Freundschaft und Toleranz. 200 Jahre Corps Bavaria zu Landshut und München, München (Akademischer Verlag) 2006, S. 183-188 * ''Der Seniorenconvent zu Königsberg. Ostpreußen und seine Corps vor dem Untergang'' (Königsberg and East Prussia between the World Wars). Einst und Jetzt: Teil I - Bd. 52 (2007), S. 147-176 , Teil II - Bd. 54 (2009), S. 219-288 * Siegfried Schindelmeiser: ''Die Albertina und ihre Studenten 1544 bis WS 1850/51'' und ''Die Geschichte des Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. (1970-1985).'' (The Albertus University and the Corps Baltia). Erstmals vollständige, bebilderte und kommentierte Neuausgabe in zwei Bänden mit einem Anhang, zwei Registern und einem Vorwort von Franz-Friedrich Prinz von Preußen, herausgegeben von R. Döhler und G. v. Klitzing, München 2010 * ''Säulen Preußens - 59 Corpsstudenten als Oberpräsidenten preußischer Provinzen''. Einst und Jetzt 55 (2010), S. 143-148

References

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External links

U.S. National Library of MedicineStudent history
* Corps Masovia {{DEFAULTSORT:Dohler, Rudiger 1948 births 2022 deaths 20th-century German physicians 21st-century German physicians Physicians from Saxony German orthopedic surgeons University of Kiel alumni German military doctors Academic staff of the University of Greifswald Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Physicians of the Charité 20th-century surgeons People from Rochlitz