Fritz Rehbein was born on the 8th April 1911 in Westuffeln in Germany. After his medical education in Göttigen he specialized as a surgeon and became Ass. Professor. In 1951 he became Head of the Department of Paediatric Surgery in Bremen. He developed multiple surgical techniques adapted to children especially for congenital anomalies of the gastrointestinal tract. He became internationally known with his method for the deep rectal anastomosis for children with Hirschsprung’s Disease.
This method was the basis for the anterior rectal resection for the rectal carcinoma in the adults. He organized different congresses and helped a lot of European Paediatric Surgeons from all over the world to establish Paediatric Surgery in their countries. In 1964 he founded the Journal “Zeitschrift für Kinderchirurgie”, the second oldest Paediatric Surgical Journal. His 1976 published textbook was translated in over 5 languages. He was honoured many times from different organizations worldwide. Fritz Rehbein died on the 7th Sep 1991.