Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp

Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp (1895 to 1974) was a German surgeon and army doctor who reached the rank of general. He was born in Bonndorf and died in Dottingen. His field was surgery and accident surgery, and he wrote many reference books on those subjects. From 1933 to 1962 he headed the surgery department of the Bergmannsheil miners' hospital in Bochum, and in that period he invented equipment that made blood transfusion easier and safer. He was president of the German Society of Surgery and held a chairmanship in the German Society for Trauma Surgery. The German armed forces award a medal in his name for merit in medicine, and the square in front of the Bergmannsheil hospital where he worked is named after him.