Alma Barkey Film

Germany 2009
by Uli Aumüller (Alma Barkey)

At the center of our historical documentary stands the many-facetted personality of August Bier (1861-1949) director of the University Clinic for Surgery in Berlin, who was connected with important historical events during his long life. Bier was a man of many talents: an innovative surgeon, he discovered spinal anaesthesia in a self-experiment; he invented the steel helmet that protected innumerable soldiers from injury and death during World War I. He also pioneered in forestry, conducting “ec

AUGUST BIER - The Surgeon Who Planted Trees and Invented the Steel Helmet
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