Gerhard Küntscher (born 1900 in Zwickau-1972) was a German surgeon who inaugurated the intramedullary nailing of long bone fractures, a process that was first performed in November 1939 at the University Department of Surgery in Kiel.
Gerhard Küntscher (6 December 1900 to) was a German surgeon who inaugurated the intramedullary nailing of long bone fractures. Küntscher first performed the process using the nail in November 1939 at the University Department of Surgery in Kiel.