Volker Klimpel (born 27 December 1941) is a German surgeon and medical historian.
Born in Weimar,[1] Klimpel studied medicine at the Leipzig University and the Medizinische Akademie Erfurt [de].
[1] He was admitted to the medical profession in Erfurt in 1967 and received his doctorate in 1969 with a dissertation under Eberhard Hasche [de].
[3][1] Heidel was the first holder of the Chair of History of Medicine at the Medical Academy "Carl Gustav Carus" Dresden from 1987.
After the German reunification, Klimpel hired himself out from 1991 to 2005 as an expert assessor at the Medizinischer Dienst der Krankenversicherung [de] Saxony.