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Nordhorn Resident Frank Barkemeyer Loses 50 Kilos After Surgery

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By Sebastian Hamel "I've always been fat," says Frank Barkemeyer quite bluntly. "As a child, as a teenager, and as an adult." Most recently, the Nordhorn native weighed more than 180 kilograms before making a literally life-changing decision in the spring of 2023: At the Euregio Clinic in Nordhorn, he had a gastric sleeve operation, which reduced his stomach volume by around 80 percent. Since then, the electrical engineer has lost more than 50 k…
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By Sebastian Hamel "I've always been fat," says Frank Barkemeyer quite bluntly. "As a child, as a teenager, and as an adult." Most recently, the Nordhorn native weighed more than 180 kilograms before making a literally life-changing decision in the spring of 2023: At the Euregio Clinic in Nordhorn, he had a gastric sleeve operation, which reduced his stomach volume by around 80 percent. Since then, the electrical engineer has lost more than 50 k…

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GN-Online broke the news in on Thursday, July 24, 2025.
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