Dietrich Gotze

Heinz Dietrich Götze (* 1941 ) is a German physician ( immunology ) and publisher at the Springer publishing house .

Dietrich Götze is the son of Heinz Götze , who, as managing partner of Springer-Verlag, played a key role in the international expansion of the publishing house after the Second World War. Dietrich Götze studied medicine in Berlin and Heidelberg. After receiving his doctorate in 1969, he worked at the Munich University Hospital and at the Institute for Hematology of the Society for Radiation and Environmental Research in Munich and for two years at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. In 1975 he completed his habilitation in immunology and genetics at the University of Munich . Götze was at the Wislar Institute and Cancer Research Center of the University of Pennsylvania from 1976 to 1981 . From 1977 to 1981 he also held the position of deputy director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology , Department of Immunogenetics in Tübingen.

In 1981 Götze became head of program planning medicine at Springer-Verlag. In 1992 he joined Claus Michaletz and Bernhard Lewerich in the management of the publishing house, which was integrated into the Bertelsmann publishing house in 1998 as a separate unit .

In 1996 he introduced the Internet platform for electronic publications SpringerLink. All Springer publications are now also available in electronic form. Götze is co-founder of the International DOI Foundation (Washington, Geneva).

He has been an honorary senator at Heidelberg University since 2006 . At the University of Heidelberg, he promoted archeology ( Egyptology , Middle Eastern archeology with the Uruk-Warka collection ) and medical-molecular-biological research through the establishment of the Athenaeum Foundation for Culture and Science and a Heinz Götze Fellowship for young scientists. He also made an outstanding contribution to the university's connections with China and was therefore made an honorary senator of the Tongji Medical College Wuhan in 2004.

Götze's diverse commitment to the promotion of science at Heidelberg University is primarily focused on antiquity research (Egyptological research center for cultural studies) and medical-molecular-biological research. To this end, he set up the Athenaeum Foundation for Culture and Science and the Heinz Götze Memorial Fellowship program to support young scientists. Among other things, Prof. Götze is currently campaigning for the redesign of the Uruk Warka collection at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Near Eastern Archeology. He also made great contributions to deepening university relations with China; for this he received the honorary professorship of the Tongji Medical College Wuhan (China) in 2004.

Since 2001 he has been the recipient of the Golden Needle of the German Book Trade Association . In 2004 he received the seal of the German Society for Surgery and the Günther Budelmann Medal of the Professional Association of German Internists for his services to medical research . In 2012 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

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• Editor: The Major Histocompatibility System in Man and Animals , Springer 1977

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• Prof. Dr. Dietrich Götze is honored with the Federal Cross of Merit, University of Heidelberg 2012