Friedmund Neumann

Friedmund Neumann (born May 20, 1935 in Malschwitz ; † January 1, 2007 in Berlin ) was a German veterinarian and endocrinologist .

Life

Friedmund Neumann was born on 1935 in the Sudetenland . During the war he first attended elementary school in Kartitz , today Choratice, and after the war in the Fürstenberg / Havel district . After attending secondary school in Zehdenick / Gransee district , where he graduated from high school , Neumann began studying veterinary medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1956 he was, however, of the College de-registered and received a study ban for life because he at a gathering on the occasion of the Hungarian uprising had taken part.
Friedmund Naumann therefore moved to West Berlin to the Free University of Berlin , where he continued his studies and passed the state examination in 1959. In the same year Neumann married his wife Renate.

In order to finance his living while studying, Neumann worked for a furniture shipping company. As a result of the heavy physical activity, he contracted an aseptic inflammation in his left knee joint , which led to an avulsion fracture of the kneecap .

Neumann received his doctorate in 1961 at the Institute for Veterinary Pathology and completed his habilitation in 1970 with a thesis on the subject of hormonal control of sexual differentiation at the Free University of Berlin.

Due to his physical limitations, which did not allow practical veterinary work, he accepted a job offer from Schering AG in 1961 , where he initially worked in the main laboratory of the Department of Experimental Pathology and Endocrinology. In 1963 he became head of the Department of Experimental Endocrinology, and in 1974 he was appointed Head of the Endocrine Pharmacology Department. In the same year, the Free University of Berlin appointed Neumann an adjunct professor in the veterinary medicine department . In 1987 Schering made him head of the main department of tumor therapy and andrology .

In search of an orally active gestagen without partial androgenic action, Rudolf Wiechert at Schering synthesized cyproterone acetate . Neumann was able to show that cyproterone acetate is a very powerful gestagen, which had exactly these desired properties and was also highly antiandrogenic .

Friedmund Neumann died in 2007 at the age of 71.

Fonts (selection)

• Friedmund Neumann: Inflammatory and non-inflammatory stenoses and obliterations of the milk ducts and cisterns in the mammary gland of the cattle. Dissertation , Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Free University of Berlin 1961
• Friedmund Neumann, Rudolf Wiechert: Significance and problems of steroid chemistry and biology: a chapter from modern biochemistry. VDI-Verlag 1974, ISBN 3-486-39881-4
• Friedmund Neumann, Alber Radlmaier, Karin Bormacher: Hormonal treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Diesbach, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-89303-006-9
• Friedmund Neumann: Cyproterone acetate for the treatment of androgenization. Diesbach, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-89303-011-5
• Friedmund Neumann, Joachim Kalmus: Hormonal treatment of sexual deviations: rationale, pharmacological principles and therapeutic possibilities. Diesbach, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-89303-010-7

Honors

In 1968 Neumann received the Schoeller-Junkmann Prize of the German Society for Endocrinology , was conference president in 1982 and secretary of the society from 1986 to 1992. In 2001 Neumann was honored with the Jacob Henle Medal of the medical faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . At the 46th congress of the German Society for Urology in Berlin, he was made an honorary member of the society.

Friedmund Neumann Prize

The Ernst Schering Foundation awards annually since 2012 to 10,000 euro after Neumann named award for young scientists who have made outstanding research in the fields of biological, chemical and medical research have produced. This recognizes Neumann's pioneering studies on modern progestins and his commitment to promoting young scientists.

Prize winners of the Friedmund Neumann Prize:

• 2012 Sylvia Mechsner (Clinic for Gynecology at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin) for her work in the field of the pathogenesis of endometriosis
• 2013 Sebastian Zeissig (Clinic for Internal Medicine at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein) for his contributions to the understanding of the molecular and immunological basis of inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases
• 2014 Maja Köhn (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg) for her work in the field of phosphatase research
• 2015 Nina Henriette Uhlenhaut (Helmholtz Center Munich for Health and Environment) for her contributions to research into molecular genetic mechanisms of endocrinological and metabolic diseases
• 2016 Barbara Treutlein (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig) for her work on single cell transcriptome analysis
• 2017 Ivana Nikić-Spiegel (Werner Reichardt Center for Integrative Neurosciences at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen) for her work on neuroinflammation
• 2018 Alexander Bartelt (Institute for Epidemiology and Prophylaxis of Circulatory Diseases at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich) for his research on brown adipose tissue
• 2019 Johannes Köster (Institute for Human Genetics of the Medical Faculty of the University of Duisburg-Essen) for his contributions to the reproducibility of data analyzes and quality assurance in biomedical research

swell

• Gerhard Bettendorf : Neumann, Friedmund . In: Gerhard Bettendorf (Ed.): On the history of endocrinology and reproductive medicine . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 978-3-642-79153-6 , p. 405-407 .
• Wolfgang Wuttke: Obituary for Prof. Dr. vet. med. Friedmund Neumann. In: Endocrinology Information. 31, 2007, pp. 22-23.
• Theodor Senge, Ulf Tunn: Prof. Dr. med. vet. Friedmund Neumann died . In: The Urologist . tape 46 , no. 4 , April 2007, pp. 439 , doi : 10.1007 / s00120-007-1327-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedmund Neumann Prize. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .