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Hubert Georg Wilhelm Frohmüller (born May 13, 1928 in Heidingsfeld) is a German urologist. From 1971 to 1997 he was professor of urology and Director of the Urological Clinic of the University of Würzburg.

Life
Frohmüller was drafted in January 1944 as a Luftwaffe auxiliary. From October 1945 to March 1946 he graduated from a so-called pre-semester course, which he also received a regular high school diploma after previously noncertified Notabitur, and studied from April from 1946 to 1952 medicine in Würzburg, where he in 1954 graduated. During his studies he was an active member of K.St.V. Walhalla in KV and held various board offices. After an assistant at the Institute of Pathology and the Medical Policlinic, University of Würzburg, he worked from 1954 to 1955 as part of an exchange program at St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey, USA. It was followed by a year as a surgical assistant at St. Antonius Hospital in Kleve and another year of medical representatives in Switzerland. From 1958 to 1963 Frohmüller worked as Fellow in Urology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. In 1963 he acquired the academic degree of Master of Science (M.S.) at the University of Minnesota. He then worked as an assistant physician of Urology Department of Surgery at the University Hospital in Munich and earned 1964 Qualification as Specialist in Urology. After eighteen months he returned to the University Surgical Clinic Würzburg, where he became head of the Urology Department. He habilitated in 1966 the field of urology and took in 1971 a call to the newly created Department of Urology. Make a call to the chair of urology at the Medical University of Hanover, he refused. Eight of his assistants habilitated himself, three of them were appointed to urological chairs (Fritz Schröder to Rotterdam, Rolf Ackermann to Dusseldorf and Manfred Wirth to Dresden) and nine of his former assistants were head of urology. 1997 Frohmüller became emeritus. Due to its scientific merits and for his decades of commitment to the K.St.V. Walhalla to Würzburg, he was appointed in November 2011 in his honor Philistines. He is married to Inge Frohmüller (born Schlegel) and has three children.

Clinic
The focus of the run of Frohmüller clinic was initially to transurethral surgery, in which the surgical instrument is inserted through the urethra. He thus contributed considerably to spreading this surgical method in Germany. 1969 led Frohmüller over Germany the first radical retropubic prostatectomy in a patient with prostate cancer by. In this method of operation, the prostate is removed by open surgery, the incision is made on the lower abdomen. In 1984 he performed the first kidney transplant in Würzburg through. Frohmüller also modified the so-called Thompson resectoscope ( "Cold Punch"), a surgical instrument is inserted through the urethra to remove prostate tissue into the bladder, This further developed by him Instrument, the then US President Ronald Reagan in 1987. surgery on the prostate. Furthermore Frohmüller developed named after him urinary catheter.

Scientific commitment
Frohmüller has published about 300 scientific papers.

He was president of the German Society for Endoscopy (1971-1972), President of the Bavarian Urologists Association (1980-1984), President of the German Society of Urology (1985-1986), President of Mayo Alumni German Speaking Chapter (1996-1997) and Chairman - Residency Review Committee of the European Board of Urology (EBU) of UEMS (Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes) (1989-1995). He was a member of the Steering Committee of U.E.M.S., Section Urology (1986-1995).

Frohmüller is an honorary member of the German Society of Urology, the European Association of Urology, the American Urological Association (AUA), the Bavarian Urologists Association, the Professional Association of German Urologists and the Greek, Austrian, Polish and Swiss Society of Urology and the South Central Section of American Urological Association. He was appointed in 1969 as the first German urologist elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). He is a corresponding member of the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons (AAGUS) (oldest urologist association in the world), the Brazilian College of Surgery, the Ecuadorian Society of Urology, the Italian Society of Urology, the Dutch Association of Urology, the Chilean company for Urology and the Urological Finnish Club.

Writings (selection)

 * ed. Klaus Bandhauer: Urology in practice. VCH edition medicine, Weinheim, 1986, ISBN 3-527-15092-7.
 * Georg Hofmockel: Emergencies in urology. Pathophysiology, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment. Scientific Publishing Company, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8047-1769-1.
 * Matthias Theiss and Franz Bracher: prostate diseases in the elderly Scientific Publishing Company, Stuttgart 1995; 2nd revised and expanded edition 2002, ISBN 3-8047-1831-0.

Awards

 * 1953: German University Champion in rowing
 * 1992: Bronze Medal at the University of Helsinki
 * 1993 Moses Swick Award, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York (Frohmüller received this award as the first German scientist)
 * 1994: Maximilian Nitze Prize of the German Society of Urology for outstanding scientific achievements
 * 1995: Maximilian Nitze Medal of the German Society of Urology for services to the urology
 * 2004: Knight of the Papal Order of St. Sylvester
 * 2006 Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumni Award
 * 2007: Willy-Gregoir medal of the European Association of Urology (EAU) of a substantial contribution to the development of urology in Europe

Literature

 * Endoscopic urology - Atlas and Textbook edited by Rainer Hofmann; 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2009; Chapter I of Jürgen Braun: Endoscopic Resektionsinstrumente and surgical techniques, 4. (Cold Punch resectoscope)
 * Focus Guides Medicine - The 1000 best doctors; 1st edition, C. Bertelsmann Verlag GmbH, Munich 1993, p 74 (urologist)