Carl Kaufmann (doctor)

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Carl Kaufmann (born August 21, 1900 in Malmedy ( Belgium ), † August 18, 1980 in Cologne ) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician .

Life

Kaufmann attended a humanistic grammar school and studied medicine at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . He passed his medical state examination there in 1923. He then began his work at the Medical University Clinic. In 1931 Carl Kaufmann received his habilitation for his work The Menstrual Cycle . In 1935 he became senior physician and in 1936 associate professor under Georg August Wagner .

Kaufmann had already become a member of the SA and NSKK in 1933 . During the Second World War , however, his activity "ceased", as Kaufmann was not considered sufficiently reliable by the regime at the time because of his uncompromising attitude towards Robert Meyer , who was subjected to massive reprisals because of his Jewish descent . In February 1945, Carl Kaufmann took over the management of the women's clinic at the Charité in Berlin .

After the end of the war, he was appointed to the Philipps University of Marburg in 1946 . Kaufmann declined further appointments to Freiburg , Hamburg and Munich , but in 1954 he followed an appointment to the University of Cologne , where he worked until his retirement in 1970. Carl Kaufmann died there on August 18, 1980 at the age of almost 80.

Act

Carl Kaufmann mainly devoted himself to basic research. The focus of his clinical-scientific work was the function of female sex hormones and the clinical therapy derived from them, the histology of the female genitals, especially the malignant tumors on the cervix , as well as malignant diseases of the female breast . In the 1930s, Kaufmann succeeded for the first time in treating the cause of menstrual disorders with hormone treatment appropriate for the cycle .

Kaufmann founded the specialist journal obstetrics and gynecology and headed the archive for gynecology , founded in 1870, from 1939 as the successor to Robert Meyer. He renounced the writing of extensive textbooks and also the presidency of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics .

Scientific Carl Kaufmann worked closely with Robert Meyer, until this September 1, 1939 in the United States emigrated and later Nobel laureate Adolf Butenandt together. Kaufmann's clinical staff, his senior physicians Karl-Günther Ober, Helmut Meinrenken and Josef Zander , became the core of the so-called “Kaufmann School”.

Appreciation

In 1961, Carl Kaufmann was appointed to the Science Council by Federal President Heinrich Lübke . Since 1986, the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics has awarded the “Carl Kaufmann Medal” every two years at its congress .

Fonts (selection)

  • with H. Runge: Early detection of collum carcinoma: the benefits and limits of colposcopy, cytology and histology. 31st conference of the German Society for Gynecology, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 1956.
  • Sex hormones in therapy. In: Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 76, 1951, pp. 519-522. PMID 14840149
  • About therapy with sex hormones. In: Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 25, 1961, pp. 1577-1581. PMID 13751885 .
  • with H. Hamperl, F. Baldus and BD Ki: Lobular carcinoma in situ of the breast. Diagnosis, clinical picture, therapy. In: Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 96, 1971, pp. 1581-1585. PMID 5098762
  • Subcutaneous phlebitis of the breast (Mondor's disease). In: Obstetrics Frauenheilkd. 28, 1968, pp. 932-934. PMID 5725524
  • The importance of mammography for the examining and treating doctor. In: Obstetrics Frauenheilkd. 28, 1968, pp. 927-932. PMID 5725523

literature

  • Hans Ludwig: The “Kaufmann scheme” for the treatment of dysfunctional uterine bleeding. Memories of Carl Kaufmann (1900–1980). In: Gynecologist. 41, 2008, pp. 313-317. doi: 10.1007 / s00129-008-2148-2
  • Heinz Götze: The Springer publishing house. Stations in its history. 1945-1992 . Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-540-56691-0 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Werner Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner: Encyclopedia Medical History . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Josef Zander : Professor Carl Kaufmann's 70th birthday, August 21, 1970. In: Obstetrics, Frauenheilkd. 30, pp. 685-686 (1970). PMID 4938725
  • Josef Zander: Carl Kaufmann, August 21, 1900-18. August 1980. In: Obstetrics Frauenheilkd. 41: 81-86 (1981). PMID 7014354
  • Wolfgang Rohde, Georg Hinz: Endocrinological research at the Charité Women's Clinic (II. University Women's Clinic) 1908–1951, at the same time the nucleus of the Institute for Experimental Endocrinology at the Charité, founded in 1951. In: Matthias David, Andreas D. Ebert: History of the Berlin University Women's Clinics: Structures, people and events in and outside the Charité. Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-022373-6 , pp. 131-162. doi: 10.1515 / 9783110223743.131

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 300f.
personal data
SURNAME Kaufmann, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmedy , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1980
Place of death Cologne