Friedrich Wilhelm Eigler (born May 10, 1932, in Sangerhausen) is a German professor emeritus of surgery.

The Miguel Hernández University of Elche awarded Professor Friedrich Wilhelm Eigler an honorary doctorate on January 26, 2001, during the celebration of the feast day of Saint Thomas Aquinas. The solemn academic ceremony took place at 11:00 a.m. in the main auditorium of the Altabix building on the Elche campus.

Friedrich Wilhelm Eigler, born in 1932 in Germany, was at that time the director of the Department of General Surgery at the University Hospital of Essen (Germany). A graduate in Medicine and a specialist in surgery, Friedrich Wilhelm obtained the chair of this specialty in Essen in 1971. From 1997, Wilhelm Eigler served as president of the Continuing Education Committee of the German Society of Surgery.

Honorary Positions

• President of the Association of Surgeons of Lower Rhine-Westphalia (1977)
• Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Essen (1981–1983)
• Advisory Board of the German Foundation for Organ Transplantation (1984–1996)
• Chairman of the Working Group of German Transplant Centers (1990–1994)
• Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Science and Ethics of the Universities of Bonn and Essen (since 1994)
• Member of the Standing Committee on Organ Transplantation of the German Medical Association
• Chairman of the Continuing and Advanced Training Committee of the German Society for Surgery

Honores 

• Curt Adam Prize (1965)
• Hans von Haberer Prize of the Association of Surgeons of Lower Rhine-Westphalia (1968)
• Ernst von Bergmann Plaque (1991)
• Honorary Member of the Valencian Society of Surgeons (1993)
• Honorary Member of the German Transplant Society
• Honorary Doctorate
• Federal Cross of Merit, First Class (1999)
• Honorary Member of the German Surgical Society (2011)