Guenter Germann

Guenter Germann has been working as a specialist in plastic and aesthetic surgery for over 30 years. He is the founder and medical director of the ETHIANUM Clinic in Heidelberg and is committed to the academic training of aspiring surgeons. Today, Prof. Dr. Germann is considered a specialist in hand surgery, a recognized scientist, and an excellent microsurgeon. For Prof. Dr. Germann, the field of surgery is a combination of art and craft. He always strove to combine the two to perfection. He laid the foundations of his impressive career in the classic way with a degree in human medicine. Numerous other positions followed at home and abroad, where he expanded and refined his knowledge and skills. Finally, in 1989, Prof. Dr. Germann became managing senior physician at the Clinic for Plastic Surgery in Cologne-Merheim. Two years later, he moved to the Clinic for Plastic Surgery at the BG University Clinic in Bochum as a senior physician. In 1993, Prof. Dr. Germann took over the position of chief physician in the Clinic for Hand Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the BG Accident Clinic in Ludwigshafen. Over the next eleven years, he helped the accident clinic gain an excellent international reputation and built it up into one of the ten largest surgical clinics in the world. Prof. Dr. Germann can now look back on more than 12,000 operations, particularly in the areas of plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, and hand surgery. His clients particularly value his extraordinary empathy and his immense wealth of experience.

Prof. Dr. Germann became involved in national and international committees, working groups, and societies at a very early stage. For example, he was President of the German Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (DGPRÄC) until 2010 and a board member of the Presidium of the German Society for Surgery (DGCH). He was Treasurer of the largest global association of microsurgeons, the American Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM), until 2017. In 2018, he was appointed Vice President and finally, in early 2020, in recognition of his life's work as a surgeon, he was elected as the first non-American to be its President. During his career, Prof. Dr. Germann developed the vision of a clinic. "It was to be a clinic with top medical competence and surgical excellence," he says today. "I wanted to make top-class medicine by doctors possible for people." In 2008, this dream came true: With the founding of the ETHIANUM Clinic Heidelberg, Prof. Dr. Germann is now the medical director of one of the most modern clinics in Europe. Having previously served as treasurer and, since 2018, vice president of the world's largest association of microsurgeons, Prof. Germann was elected president of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM) in early 2020 in recognition of his life's work - the first non-American ever to do so. Prof. Dr. Germann is married and father of three children.