About the Society
The Adolf-Lorenz-Society was founded in 1992. After the foundation
had been launched and some members of the University Clinic for Orthopaedics
volunteered to work the Society's first action in 1993 was to commission
a marble relief. The relief shows the profile of Adolf Lorenz and his son
Albert. After the relief had been mounted next to the portal of Rathausstrasse
21, the museum and memorial place was to be formally opened in an official
ceremony, however, a few days before the relief was to be unveiled Mrs.
Helga Lorenz died suddenly. The opening was carried out with a silent memorial
to her and the relief was unveiled.
In 1995 together with a historian, the surgery was examined and two years
later the booklet "Adolf Lorenz 1864 - 1946, stages of a long life"
by Norbert Steingress was produced and realised by the Federal Ministry
for Science and Transport, the Vienna Hospital System, the Cultural Association
of the City of Vienna and the Scientific Group of the Department of the
City Development and Planning of the City of Vienna the Adolf-Lorenz-Society
and the Vienna Medical Academy Publishing House. This booklet not only describes
the lives of Adolf and Albert Lorenz, but also the development in orthopaedics
from 1886 in Vienna. When the German Orthopaedic Congress was held in Vienna
in the autumn of 1997, the booklet was presented to the congress participants
as a documentation of the memorial. In 2002 it was the 100th
anniversary of Adolf Lorenz's famous journey through America and at the
same time the International Orthopaedic World Congress (SICOT) was held
in San Diego in California, so the booklet was published in English and
presented to the congress participants at the 22nd SICOT World
Congress.
Due to a generous donation from the Federal Monument Ministry a fundamental
renovation of the memorial place was carried out in 2001, in order to install
electric heating and to adapt the wet rooms, so that the memorial museum
could also be used for small orthopaedic meetings. This generous support
was granted by the Monument Ministry after a thorough examination and consultation
by Dr. Sárolta Schredl. Since 2001 the Annual Meeting of the Presidents
of the Austrian Orthopaedic Society are held in these historical rooms.
On the occasion of larger orthopaedic congresses in Vienna e.g. the Austrian
Orthopaedic Congress in 1997, the AFOR Congresses 2003 and 2004 there were
evening invitations and small meetings in the Lorenz Surgery in Rathausstrasse
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