Erich kiss

Erich Kuss (born June 14, 1927 in Wanne-Eickel ) is a German biochemist and laboratory doctor .

Live and act

Erich Kuß was born in Wanne-Eickel in 1927. After graduating from high school, he became an air force helper in World War II on February 15, 1943 , a laborer in the Reich Labor Service in 1944 , then a paratrooper soldier and in March 1945 a prisoner of war in the US Army , which extradited him to France in the summer of the same year . In October 1948 he was released to his homeland.

The high school diplomas issued in those years before the conscription to the Wehrmacht were not recognized after the war. So Erich Kuß, like all graduates of those years, had to complete a “remedial course” in order to meet one of the requirements for studying. He worked out the financial requirements for studying located underground in coal mine Shamrock III / IV, a coal - mine in Wanne-Eickel . He proved his intellectual prerequisites on October 6, 1950 through an "admission interview" with the then Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt , Hans Wolfgang Kohlschütter . In 1951 he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Darmstadt.

After graduating in chemistry in 1953, he moved to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , where he also began studying medicine , which he continued, as well as his chemistry studies, a year later at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . There he passed the main chemistry examination in 1955 and the preliminary medical examination in 1956. His thesis "Preparation of β-carboxy-lysine" and the thesis "The enzymatic oxidation of 3-hydroxy-anthranilic" made kiss under the guidance of Adolf Butenandt the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry , first in Tübingen , from 1956 in Munich , at . Here he was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. PhD . 1960 was kiss the medical state examination in 1963, he received the approbation as a doctor and he became the Dr. med. PhD. The topic of this doctoral thesis was the "inhibition of tissue respiration by estrogens" . In 1971 he was recognized as a specialist in laboratory medicine .

From 1960 onwards, Kuss set up a laboratory for clinical chemistry and biochemistry as a research assistant on behalf of Werner Bickenbach at the I. University Women's Clinic at the University of Munich. He later headed this as academic director and finally as head of department, also under Bickenbach's successor Josef Zander .

With the work "A group of new estrogen metabolites: Isolation, identification and synthesis of the glutathione thioether of 2,3-dihydroxy-estratrienes" , Erich Kuß qualified as a professor in 1969 for clinical chemistry and biochemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and was Appointed private lecturer in the same year . In 1975 he was appointed associate professor . His main scientific areas of work were the acyclic intermediate product of nicotinic acid biosynthesis, the metabolism and mechanism of action of steroidal estrogens , maternofetal and fetomaternal transport in the placenta , the development of immunochemical analysis methods, the validation of clinical-chemical investigations, and rational and rational medical diagnostics. Erich Kuß retired in 1992 .

After his retirement, Erich Kuß dealt more with historical and medical-historical topics, in particular the biography of the gynecologist Heinrich Eymer , who had headed the Munich University Women's Clinic from 1934 to 1954. His publication “A clinic director in political distress” was repeated and criticized from various quarters for being trivialized.

Erich Kuß is with the teacher Gabriele Kuß, geb. Vorster, married, a daughter of Pastor Friedrich Vorster (1903–1982), who was Dean of the Nürtingen church district from 1959 to 1970 and who belonged to the extensive Vorster papermaking dynasty founded by Adolf Vorster . The couple has four children, the opera and theater director Annette Kuss , the violinist Bettina Kuss , the doctor Susanne Kuss and the lawyer Michael Kuss.

Fonts (selection)

• Water soluble metabolites of estrogens: A model of covalent steroid protein binding. In: M. Finkelstein, A. Klopper, C. Conti, C. Cassano (Eds.): Research on Steroids. Vol. IV, Pergamon Press (1970), pp. 49-59.
• Preparation and purification of α-amino-β-carboxy-muconic acid-ε-semialdehyde, the acyclic intermediate of nicotinic acid biosynthesis. In: DB McCormick, LD Wright: Vitamins and Coenzymes, Part B. Vol. XVIII by: SP Colowick, NO Kaplan (Ed.): Methods in Enzymology. Academic Press, New York 1971, pp. 49-50.
• with Richard Goebel: Diagnostic Value of Estrogen Determination - Experiences in Monitoring High-Risk Pregnancies. In: Erich Saling , Franz-Josef Schulte (Ed.): Perinatal Medicine. Vol. II, Thieme, Stuttgart 1972, pp. 42-45.
• Clinical Chemistry in Perinatology. In: Ernst-Joachim Hickl , Klaus Riegel (eds.): Applied perinatology. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1974, pp. 178-210.
• Determination of total estrogens in pregnancy urine by spectrophotometry. In: H. Breuer, D. Hamel, HL Krüskemper (Ed.): Methods of Hormone Analysis. Thieme, Stuttgart 1975, pp. 463-468.
• Richard Goebel, Hanns-Kristian Rjosk, Erich Kuß: Diagnostic value of the serum estrogen determination in comparison with other chemical monitoring methods in high-risk pregnancies. In: Joachim Wolfram Dudenhausen , Erich Saling , Eberhard Schmidt (eds.): Perinatal medicine. Vol. VI, Thieme, Stuttgart 1975, pp. 143-144.
• Laboratory diagnostics. In: Gerhard Martius (ed.): Midwife textbook. 3rd edition, Thieme, Stuttgart 1979, pp. 65-72.
• Approaches to the chemistry and immunology of ovarian cancer. In: Josef Zander (Ed.): Ovarialkarzinom. Advances in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Action. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1982, pp. 41-62.
• Biochemistry and Physiology of Reproduction. In: Josef Zander (Ed.): Gynecology and Obstetrics. Vol. I / 1: Sexual Differentiation, Genetics, Reproduction, Childhood and Puberty. 2nd edition, Thieme, Stuttgart 1987, 4.13-4.137.
• with Leif Dibbelt, Josef Zander : The hormones of the placenta. In: Josef Zander (Ed.): Gynecology and Obstetrics. Vol. I / 1, Sexual Differentiation, Genetics, Reproduction, Childhood and Puberty. 2nd edition, Thieme, Stuttgart 1987, 4.138-4.167.
• Hormone regulations. In: Josef Zander (Ed.): Gynecology and Obstetrics. Vol. I / 1, Sexual Differentiation, Genetics, Reproduction, Childhood and Puberty. 2nd edition, Thieme, Stuttgart 1987, 4.168-4.221.
• Female sex hormones. In: Gerhard Maschinski (Ed.): Medicines in the dental practice. Part 3, Spitta, Balingen 1994, Chapter 31, pp. 1-10.
• with Josef Zander : On writing and reading scientific texts. Natalsh Frauenh 55 (1995), pp. 414-424.
• with Josef Zander , Kurt Holzmann: Gynecology - Literature - Science: Attempt to determine your position. Thieme, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-13-100381-2 .
• Inhumane practices in the I. Women's Clinic of the University of Munich. Geburth Frauenheilk 55 (1995), 291–298 ( PDF document; 5.2 MB ).
• A clinic director in political distress: the director of the first women's clinic at the University of Munich, Professor Dr. Heinrich Eymer, "subject of investigation" of the military government and "affected person" in the arbitration chamber proceedings, now in the twilight of "coming to terms with the past". Würzburg medical history reports 19 (2000), 283–388 ( PDF document; 874 kB ); Shaker, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-8265-6751-X .
• Monuments, monuments and the memorial of the paratroopers. Der Deutsche Fallschirmjäger 5 (1999) pp. 7-8.
• Heinrich Eymer. Overcoming the past and self-control of science. Munich 2011 ( PDF document; 981 kB ).
• Rahlenbeck: Malörchen in the house of Grütern zu Altendorf, upswing in textile production in Hagen and Lumpenkrieg between the Vorster paper mills in Delstern and Eilpe. Munich 2012 ( PDF document; 384 kB ).
• Our Wanner race from around 1930 to around 1940: with a northern and southern "run". OO 2014 ( PDF document; 1.4 MB ).
• Oberschule for boys Wanne Eickel and her Sexta b from 1937. Self-published, o. O. 2014 ( PDF document; 7.8 MB ).
• The Milch family from Breslau and their Jewish or German descendants. Shaker, Aachen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8440-4727-1 .

literature

• Sven Kinas: Adolf Butenandt ( 1903-1995 ) and his school. Volume 18 of publications from the archive on the history of the Max Planck Society. Archive for the history of the Max Planck Society, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-927579-19-X , page 120.
• Wolfgang Vogt, Josef Zander: On the interaction between clinic, laboratory medicine and biochemical research. DG Klinische Chemie Mitteilungen 24 (1993) 79 - 99.
• Gerd Jütting: From the beginnings of the laboratories for biochemistry and for clinical chemistry at the first women's clinic at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. DG Klinische Chemie Mitteilungen 24 (1993) Issue 2, 80-82, online (PDF document; 261 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Erich Kuß: Commented excerpt from "The Vorster family. The history of a German papermaking family". Edited by Ferdinand Vorster, Hagen, in the years 1929 - 1936. Munich 2012, p. 11, online (PDF file; 6.6 MB).
2. ↑ Erich Kuß: The secondary school leaving certificate in the post-war period. 100 years of the Herten municipal high school. (2001), 43-44.
3. ^ Directory of Weinheimer Corps Students 1990, p. 270.
4. ↑ Bayerisches Ärzteblatt 7 (1971), p. 689, online ( Memento of the original dated May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 35 MB). 
5. ↑ Bayerisches Ärzteblatt 10 (1975), p. 779, online ( Memento of the original dated May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF document; 52.7 MB). 
6. ↑ Josef Zander : Traces. A scientific biography. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1998, pp. 77–83, ISBN 3-541-17921-X , online (PDF file; 15 MB).
7. ↑ Bayerisches Ärzteblatt 1 (1970), p. 50, online ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 56 MB). 
8. ↑ Bayerisches Ärzteblatt 2 (1976), p. 133, online ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 45 MB). 
9. ↑ Erich Kuss: Heinrich Eymer. Overcoming the past and self-control of science. (2011) online (PDF file; 981 kB).
10. ↑ Volker Lehmann: Statement. What strikes you when reading Erich Kuss' work: "A clinic director in political distress" . In: Frauenarzt 41, 5 (2000), pp. 537-538.
11. ^ Marita Krauss : Right careers in Munich. From the Weimar period to the post-war years (2010), p. 387.