Honorary Members of the German Society for Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine

The Executive Board appoints honorary members who have rendered outstanding services to the development and promotion of vascular surgery and vascular medicine. Honorary membership is awarded at the annual conference of the German Society for Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine.

Since 1986, the following people have been appointed honorary members:

  • Annual Conference, Frankfurt am Main 2026
    : Prof. Dr med Thomas Bürger (Rostock)
    ; Prof. Dr med Thomas Schmitz-Rixen (Frankfurt am Main)
     
  • Three-Country Conference, Lucerne 2025
    : Prof. Knut Kröger, MD (Krefeld)
     
  • Annual Conference, Karlsruhe 2024
    Prof. Dr med Heiner Wenk (Schwanewede/Meyenburg)
     
  • Annual Conference, Osnabrück 2023
    Prof. Jan Sigge Brunkwall, MD (Höllviken, Sweden)
    Prof. Ludger Sunder-Plassmann, MD † (Munich)
     
  • Tri-national Conference, Vienna 2022
    Prof. Dr med. Werner Lang (Erlangen)
     
  • Mannheim Annual Conference 2021
    Prof. Dr Hans-Henning Eckstein (Munich) †
    Prim. Dr Franz Hinterreiter (Linz) †
    Dr Hans-Peter Niedermeier (Munich) †
     
  • Three-Country Conference, Mannheim 2019
    : Prof. Dr Thomas Hupp (Stuttgart)
    ; Dr Barry Katzen (Miami, USA)
     
  • Annual Conference, Bonn 2018
    Dr Karin Brachmann (Leipzig)
     
  • Annual Conference, Frankfurt am Main 2017
    Prof. Dr Piotr Kasprzak (Regensburg)
    Dr Helmut Nüllen (Mönchengladbach)
     
  • Three-Country Conference, Bern 2016
    Prof. Dr Gustav Fraedrich (Innsbruck)  
     
  • Annual Conference, Münster 2015
    : Prof. Dr Wilhelm Sandmann (Duisburg)
     
  • Annual Conference, Hamburg 2014
    : Prof. Dr M.D. Peter Gloviczki (Rochester, USA)
    ; Prof. Dr med. Dierk Scheinert (Leipzig)
    ; Prof. Dr med. Nikolay Volodos (Kharkiv, Ukraine) †
       
  • Linz Annual Conference 2013
    Prof. Dr Hartwig Bauer (Berlin)
     
  • Annual Conference, Erlangen 2011
    Dr Hans-Joachim Florek (Freital)
     
  • Three-Country Conference, Berlin 2010
    : Prof. Dr med Klaus Balzer (Mülheim an der Ruhr) †
    Prof. Dr med Herbert Imig (Schleswig)
     
  • Annual Conference, Munich 2009
    : Prof. Dr med. Jens-Rainer Allenberg (Heidelberg)
     

     

  • Dresden Annual Conference 2008
    Prof. Roger Greenhalgh, MD (London) †
    Prof. Dr med. Dieter Raithel (Nuremberg)
     
  • Annual Conference, Mülheim 2006
    Prof. Jörg Dieter Gruss, MD †
    Kal Suresh, MD (Bangalore, India)
     
  • Annual Conference, Stuttgart 2005
    John Wolfe, MD (London)
     
  • Innsbruck Annual Conference 2004
    Prof. Dr Andreas Zehle (Friedrichshafen) †
     
  • 2003
    Annual Conference, Ulm: Prof. Dr Martin Bartel (Jena) †
     
  • 2002
    Annual Conference, Würzburg: Prof. Dr med. Gerhard Flora (Innsbruck) †
    Prof. Dr med. Friedrich Nobbe (Ulm) †
     
  • Annual Conference, Hamburg 2001
    Prof. Dr Masayoshi Okada (Kobe, Japan)
    Prof. Dr Klaus-Michael Müller (Bochum) †
     
  • Annual Conference, Nuremberg 2000
    Prof. Dr med Peter Carl Maurer (Munich) †
    Juan Carlos Parodi MD (Buenos Aires)
    Edward B. Diethrich MD (Phoenix) †
     
  • Annual Conference, Friedrichshafen 1999
    Prof. Dr Hans Jörg Böhmig (Linz) †
    Prof. Dr Henner Müller-Wiefel (Mülheim an der Ruhr) †
     
  • Annual Conference, Lausanne 1998
    Prof. Dr Hans-Martin Becker (Munich) †
    Prof. Dr Paolo Fiorani (Rome) †
     
  • Annual Conference, Düsseldorf 1994
    Prof. Dr med. Karl Kremer (Düsseldorf) †
    Prof. Dr med. Kurt Egon Loose (Elmshorn) †
    Prof. Dr med. Bernhard Nachbur (Ittigen, Switzerland) †
    Prof. Dr med Hans-Wolfgang Pässler (Leverkusen) †
     
  • Annual Conference, Dresden 1992
    Prof. Dr Jörg Vollmar (Ulm) †
     
  • Annual Conference, Augsburg 1991
    Prof. Dr med Helmuth Denck (Vienna) †
     
  • Annual Conference, Hamburg 1990
    : Prof. Dr. med. René J.A.M. van Dongen (Amsterdam) †
     
  • 1989
    Annual Conference, Munich: Prof. Dr E. Stanley Crawford (Houston) †
     
  • 1988
    Annual Conference, Salzburg: Prof. Charles G. Rob, MD (Bethesda) †
     
  • Annual Conference, Düsseldorf 1986
    : Prof. D. Emerick Szilagyi, MD (Detroit) †