Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer (16 February 1837 – 16 June 1914) was a German gynecologist who was a native of Guntersblum in Rhenish Hesse.

From 1872 to 1881, he was a "full professor" of obstetrics at the University of Giessen, where he also served as director of the Frauenklinik.

It involved a transverse incision of the lower segment of the uterus, a procedure that minimizes bleeding, and is still widely used today,[2][self-published source] typically in form of the Pfannenstiel incision, a modification made by Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel in 1900.

Prior to Kehrer's operation, Caesarean sections were seldom performed, and when they were, the mortality rate of mothers was very high.

The following year, Max Sanger (1853–1903), introduced the practice of suturing the uterus' Caesarean wound.