Hanns Gotthard Lasch

Hanns Gotthard Lasch (born September 29, 1925 in Liegnitz ; † December 19, 2009 ) was a German internist and university professor .

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Hanns Gotthard Lasch was born in 1925 in Liegnitz / Silesia as the son of the lawyer Gotthard Lasch. He spent his school days in Löwenberg / Silesia, Osterode / East Prussia, Augsburg and Breslau, where he passed the Abitur. After studying medicine in Breslau and Erlangen, interrupted by labor, military service and imprisonment, he passed the medical state examination in 1951 and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. He completed his training as an internist in Heidelberg with Karl Matthes , where he completed his habilitation in 1959 (subject: latent coagulation in the bloodstream ) and was recognized as a specialist in internal medicine in 1965.

In 1965 Hanns Gotthard Lasch was appointed to a chair for internal medicine at the University of Gießen and was appointed head of the 1st Medical Clinic, which he headed until his retirement in 1993.

The main research and work areas of Hanns Gotthard Lasch were: blood coagulation , cardiovascular failure, sepsis , multiple organ failure , intensive medicine and ethical problems in medicine and health care. During his work in Heidelberg, Hanns Gotthard Lasch succeeded in clearing up the mechanism of a previously unknown clinical picture, which he called “consumption coagulopathy”. During his time in Heidelberg , Lasch was also a school doctor at the university's sister university and, while Olga von Lersner and Antje Grauhan were the school leaders, coined the nickname “Hollywood School”, which gave the sister university an international reputation.

In 1972 Lasch became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina zu Halle. In 1977 he founded the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine . V. (DIVI), of which he was President until 1988.

Awards (selection)

Dr. med. vet. hc of the Veterinary Medicine Faculty of the University of Giessen 1977.
Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 1979
Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany 1985
Ernst von Bergmann badge 1985
Dr. med. hc from the Technical University of Munich 1986
Hessian Order of Merit 1990
Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1992
Gustav von Bergmann Medal 2001
Paracelsus Medal 2002
Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia 2003

literature

Laudation for the award of the Paracelsus Medal. In: Dtsch Arztebl. 99 (22), 2002, pp. A-1498.
Obituary for HG Lasch. In: Dtsch Arztebl. 107 (11), 2010, p. A-503.
Obituary for Hanns Gotthard Lasch . In: Haemostaseologie 2/2010, pp. 98-100.

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart : Milestones in circulatory, vascular and blood research. In: Peter Nawroth, Hanns Gotthard Lasch (Hrsg.): Vascular medicine systematically. Uni-Med Verlag, Bremen 1999, ISBN 3-89599-143-0 , p. 33. (on HG Lasch, "latent coagulation" and the pathomechanism of consumption coagulopathy )
↑ Christine R. Auer: A free-thinking nurse, Antje Grauhan MA is 80 years old. Self-published, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030494-1 , p. 15. (Antje Grauhan 80 years old)

Web links

Literature by and about Hanns Gotthard Lasch in the catalog of the German National Library
Publications by HG Lasch in PubMed

personal data
SURNAME	Lasch, Hanns Gotthard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German internist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 29, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH	December 19, 2009

[1] Wolfgang U. Eckart : Milestones in circulatory, vascular and blood research. In: Peter Nawroth, Hanns Gotthard Lasch (Hrsg.): Vascular medicine systematically. Uni-Med Verlag, Bremen 1999, ISBN 3-89599-143-0 , p. 33. (on HG Lasch, "latent coagulation" and the pathomechanism of consumption coagulopathy )

[2] Christine R. Auer: A free-thinking nurse, Antje Grauhan MA is 80 years old. Self-published, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030494-1 , p. 15. (Antje Grauhan 80 years old)