Professor Rainer Baumgart (MD), completed a degree in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich and successfully passed the examination as a graduate engineer for aerospace technology in 1981. He then studied medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, where he was licensed as Medical Doctor in 1985.

In the scientific field, Professor Baumgart initially conducted fluid mechanics research and investigated predilection sites for atheromas in the aorta and carotids at the Laboratory for Biofluid-Mechanics in Munich.

Professor Baumgart is internationally known as a pioneer of new techniques of callus distraction. He participated in all congresses of ASAMI international, starting in New Orleans until today, and was president of ASAMI-Germany. With well over 1000 lectures, 500 publications and a large number of book chapters, he has made a decisive contribution to the dissemination of the Illizarov technique and has also set decisive new impulses for further developments.