Rüdiger Döhler


Rüdiger Döhler FRCSEd was a German professor of orthopedic surgery.

Life

Döhler grew up in Rochlitz and East Berlin. In 1958, his family fled from the GDR to Bremerhaven. After graduating from a classic-languages school he joined the German Navy and from 1968 through 1974 studied medicine in Kiel with a break in Hamburg and Heidelberg.
In 2014 he moved again to Plau am See, where he died on 28 September 2022.

Clinical career

In 1976, Döhler was awarded his doctoral degree at the University of Kiel. He was trained in pathology, surgery and orthopedics and achieved the acknowledgement as orthopedic surgeon in 1983.
In March 1984, he went to Edinburgh and did clinical work at the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital and, with a grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, performed basic research at the University of Edinburgh.
In August 1985 he returned to Kiel, and three years later he moved to the University of Münster for spinal surgery . In 1990, he quit cold orthopedics and re-embarked on surgery in Hamburg-Altona. There, he achieved his second acknowledgement as general surgeon and finished his habilitation with the neuroanatomist Werner Lierse.
After German unification in 1995, he was appointed head of the then new hospital in Plau am See, Mecklenburg.
Döhler operated on children from Africa and Central Asia 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 German Navy 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, 1986Verletzungsfolgen an Bewegungsapparat und Wirbelsäule. In: A. Reichelt, Orthopädie. Stuttgart 1993 Lexikon orthopädische Chirurgie. Berlin 2003 Brauchen wir neue Hüftendoprothesen?. Chirurgische Allgemeine 7, S. 471-475
  • M. Liehn, I. Middelanis-Neumann, L. Steinmüller, J. R. Döhler : OP-Handbuch. Grundlagen, Instrumentarium, OP-Ablauf, 4. ed.. Berlin, Heidelberg 2007 Corps Masovia, München 2005 Der Deutsche Idealismus und das Corpsstudententum, in: S. Sigler Freundschaft und Toleranz. 200 Jahre Corps Bavaria zu Landshut und München, München 2006, S. 183-188 Der Seniorenconvent zu Königsberg. Ostpreußen und seine Corps vor dem Untergang. Einst und Jetzt: Teil I - Bd. 52, S. 147-176, Teil II - Bd. 54, 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... 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, S. 143-148