Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp
Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp was a German medic and army doctor with the rank of general.Life
Bürkle de la Camp's domains were surgery and accident surgery, he wrote many reference books about these themes.
From 1933 till 1962 he was head of the surgery department in the Bergbau-Berufsgenossenschaftlichen Krankenanstalten Bergmannsheil in Bochum. In this time he invented an equipment that made blood transfusion easier and safer.
In his honour the German Bundeswehr awards the Heinrich-Bürkle-de-la-Camp-Medaille for merits in medicine. The plaza in front of the Bergmannsheil, the hospital he worked in, is named after him.Leadership roles
