Franz von Winckel

Franz Karl Ludwig Wilhelm von Winckel (5 June 1837 – 31 December 1911) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician who was a native of Berleburg.

In 1860 he received his medical doctorate from Berlin, later becoming a professor of gynecology in Rostock (1864).

[1] Among his students and assistants at Munich was gynecologist Josef Albert Amann (1866–1919).

The procedure is named in conjunction with Justus Heinrich Wigand (1769–1817) and August Eduard Martin (1847–1933).

He was the first president of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe (German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics).