Hans Gummel

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Bust of Gummels on the biomedical campus Berlin-Buch

Hans Gummel (born  August 3, 1908 in Berlin ; †  May 27, 1973 there ) was a German surgeon and oncologist . From 1955 he was director of the Robert-Rössle-Klinik, a research clinic for cancer in Berlin-Buch . From 1972 he was the founding director of the Central Institute for Cancer Research of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , which, as the successor to the clinic, became the most important institution in the German Democratic Republic for the treatment and research of cancer.

Life

Hans Gummel was born in Berlin in 1908 and studied medicine at the Universities of Rostock , Innsbruck and Berlin from 1928 to 1933 . He joined the NSDAP in 1933 and was Oberbannführer in the Hitler Youth . From 1934 to 1937 he worked as an assistant doctor under Robert Rössle at the Institute for Pathology and at the Institute for Pharmacology at the Berlin Charité , during which time he received his doctorate in 1935 at the University of Berlin . He then moved to the Surgical Clinic of the University of Breslau , where he worked as a senior physician from 1939 and was influenced by Karl Heinrich Bauer , who later founded the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg .

After the end of the Second World War, he first worked in Dresden , where he founded and headed a laboratory for tumor research at the children's clinic of the city hospital in Dresden-Johannstadt and also acted as scientific director of a company for the production of penicillin in the Soviet zone of occupation . From 1948 he worked as chief physician and from 1955 as director of the newly founded Clinic for Tumor Diseases at the Institute for Medicine and Biology of the German Academy of Sciences , which was named after Robert Rössle from 1959. 1959/60 he was chairman of the Berlin Surgical Society .

In 1953 he was appointed professor by the academy. Ten years later, the Robert Rössle Clinic and the Academy Institute for Experimental Cancer Research became the Institute for Cancer Research. The Central Institute for Cancer Research emerged from this in 1972 , with Hans Gummel as its director from the establishment of the institute until his death. His successor was Stephan Tanneberger in 1974 , after Gummel's deputies Arnold Graffi and Theodor Matthes jointly assumed the provisional management of the institute.

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He is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder parishes .

Act

Gummel's medical and scientific interest was particularly focused on research into the development of breast cancer and the early detection of bronchial and gastric cancer . The number of beds at the Robert-Rössle-Klinik rose under his management from 55 in 1949 to 220; In addition, several new departments were created at the clinic.

Awards

Gummel received the National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class , in 1959 and was elected a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1961, and was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina three years later . The Society for Combating Tumors in the GDR, of which he became chairman and honorary member in 1971, awarded him the Hans Gummel Medal in commemoration. In 1973 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold. On the biomedical campus in Berlin-Buch, a guest house of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine , the successor to the Central Institute, bears his name.

Works

  • Hormones in the genesis and therapy of breast cancer. Series: Treatises of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1967 (as editor)
  • Symposium on breast cancer. Series: Treatises of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1973 (as editor)

Web links

Commons : Hans Gummel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entries by Hans Gummel in the Rostock matriculation portal : first matriculation , second matriculation
  2. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 116.
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 28, 1973, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Gummel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and oncologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1973
Place of death Berlin