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Rudolf Zenker (* 24 February 1903 in Munich; "Â 18 January 1984 ebd.) was a surgeon and accomplished in Germany the first Herztransplantation.
As a son it studied well-known resident of Munich of the optician Heinrich Zenker in Munich and Zurich medicine, in was it then an assistant of Martin Kirschner (1879-1942). There it habilitierte itself also as a surgeon.
1943 he became an unscheduled professor in Heidelberg as well as medical director of the surgical department of the urban hospitals in Mannheim, 1953 full professor for surgery and director of the surgical university clinic and health center in Marburg at the Lahn and accomplished there 1958 the first successful operation at the open heart in Germany using a heart lung machine. In the same year he transferred the chair as a tidy professor for surgery to Munich and was there a director of the surgical university clinic up to its retirement in the year 1973. Under its line on 13 February 1969 the first Herztransplantation Germany at a patient was accomplished there, whereby this survived only 27 hours not due to fabric compatibility lacking, but because of the donor heart.
Contrary to its predecessors Zenker attached particular importance to the promotion of the special fields of the surgery. Thus under its era in Munich the heart and thorax surgery, urology, anaesthesia and surgical research to independent chairs were raised.
In the year of its retirement Zenker for its Order of Merit large around the surgery in Germany as well as the Bavarian earnings/service medal received earnings/services. In addition in Munich a road is designated after it.
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