Bernhard Heine
German orthopaedic surgeon and physiologist,
Würzburg 1800 - 1846, born in Schramberg,
died in Glockenthal/Switzerland

After serving an apprenticeship in his uncle Johann G.
Heine's famous workshops, Heine combined in his person
the skills of the mechanic and the physician, being master
of both the file and the knife in equal measure. More

Martin Kirschner
German surgeon, Greifswald, Königsberg,
Tübingen 1879 -1942, born in Breslau,
died in Heidelberg

Kirschner performed the first successful
Trendelenburg's operation to remove a
pulmonary embolism. More

Gerhard Küntscher
German orthopaedic surgeon, Kiel,
Hamburg 1900 - 1972, born in Zwickau,
died in Flensburg

Küntscher invented the elastic intramedullary
nail to close fractures from the medullary cavity. More