12 years Editor-in-Chief: Hans G. Beger

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Langenbeck’s Archives of Surgery just celebrated an impressive 150th anniversary, making it the oldest as well as a beacon of tradition for surgical journals. The history of Langenbeck’s Archives of Surgery had begun before leading journals like Annals of Surgery (1885) or British Journal of Surgery (1913) began. The outstanding tradition of the journal is ideally demonstrated by the revolutionary articles in the second half of the nineteenth century by surgical pioneers like Billroth, Kocher, Rehn, or later by Kausch and Sauerbruch [1]. The list of former editors of Langenbeck’s includes the most distinguished and honored German surgeons who all contributed to major advancements of surgical patient care and who are still present in our daily surgical mind and practice [2]. …