Hans Hinselmann

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Hans Hinselmann

Hans Hinselmann (born August 6, 1884 in Neumünster ; † April 18, 1959 in Hamburg-Othmarschen ) was an obstetrical, oncological and scientific German gynecologist who became known worldwide for the development of colposcopy .

Live and act

1884 to 1945

Hans Hinselmann was born in 1884 as the son of a master brewer . Until 1908 he studied medicine at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . With the dissertation Contribution to the knowledge of the malignant pigmented tumors of the vulva he received his doctorate there in 1908 under Johannes Pfannenstiel . He completed his training at the university women's clinics in Jena and Gießen . In 1912 he was at the University of Bonn under Otto von Franqué (1867 to 1937) Habilitation and senior physician appointed. In 1921 Hinselmann became a professor at the University Women's Clinic in Bonn . In 1925 he moved to Hamburg as chief physician of the women's clinic and head of the department for obstetrics and gynecology at the Altona General Hospital . From July 1, 1933, he headed the Altona Women's Clinic in Bülowstrasse and taught at the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg as a lecturer for colposcopy and early diagnosis of uterine carcinoma . In 1939 he was appointed adjunct professor there. Under the direction of Hinselmann, the municipal maternity hospital was soon renamed the Altona Women's Clinic, as the proportion of gynecological operations increased significantly.

time of the nationalsocialism

During the time of National Socialism , Eduard Wirths , on-site doctor at Auschwitz, had a prisoner doctor carry out colposcopy experiments in Auschwitz . The initiator was his brother Helmut, a student of Hinselmann. If there were any abnormalities, the cervix was removed and examined in the Hamburg laboratory of Helmut Wirths under the responsibility of Hinselmann for precursors of cervical cancer. In July 1934, the first sterilization under the diagnosis of hereditary disease was carried out in the Altona Women's Clinic. Sterilization according to Hinselmann due to the sterilization laws subsequently accounted for 34 percent of all operations and was thus the most frequent operation in the clinic. Under Hinselmann's responsibility, at least eight “ gypsy women ” were demonstrably sterilized between November 1944 and the beginning of 1945 on the instructions of the Gestapo . "Consent" to the interventions was blackmailed with the threat of transport to Auschwitz. Two of his sons died at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942/1943.

Time after 1945

Because of the compulsory sterilizations , Hans Hinselmann was suspended in 1946 and sentenced in December of that year by the British military court in one of the Curiohaus trials to three years imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 marks. The last operation that Professor Hinselmann performed at the Altona Women's Clinic on November 26, 1946, was an abortion and sterilization, which was now carried out according to the new guidelines of the British military government. After his release from prison, he was denazified in 1949 . He was denied a new teaching position for political reasons and because he had reached the age limit. He continued his research on colposcopy in his private laboratory. About half a year before the death of Evita Perón in 1952, who was suffering from cervical cancer , Hinselmann was invited to Argentina as an expert in the field. Even after leaving the clinic, Hinselmann continued to work and publish scientifically. In 1952 and 1955, extended lecture tours led him through South American countries at the invitation of the specialist societies there. Because of his scientific achievements, he was a member and honorary member of many professional societies. In 1956 he was made an honorary member of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGGG). On March 26, 2015, however, the company's board of directors decided not to include Hans Hinselmann on the list of former and current honorary members of the DGGG. Hans Hinselmann died in Hamburg at the age of 74.

Merits

Hinselmann is best known for the development of colposcopy , the first method for diagnosing pathological changes in the vagina and for the early detection of cervical cancer , which took place until 1924 . However, he wrote a total of over 300 scientific publications. During the years of his senior physician time in Bonn, von Franqué considered him an expert in research into eclampsia , a pregnancy-related disease . All scientific knowledge and treatment strategies are still based on his investigations into tissue changes in the mother cake . On the basis of his research results on eclampsia and cervical cancer, Hinselmann carried out the first organized cancer screening examinations and preventive examinations during pregnancy and is therefore one of the founders of statutory cancer screening and prenatal care . The idea of ​​introducing a “ mother passport ”, which was introduced in Germany in 1961, was discussed in letters to his assistant Heinrich Martius . Hinselmann developed a new method of sterilization , the tube sterilization according to Hinselmann , in which, after the fallopian tube had been cut, the end near the uterus was placed as far from the ovary as possible, pulled through under the round cervical ligament and sunk outside the abdominal cavity.

Fonts (selection)

  • Contribution to the knowledge of malignant pigmented growths of the vulva. In: Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Vol. 62 (1908) (dissertation, University of Kiel, 1909).
  • The alleged, physiological pregnancy thrombosis of vessels in the uterine placental site. Enke, Stuttgart 1913.
  • On the sexual ethics of the educated young man. F. Cohen, Bonn 1917.
  • (Ed.) Eclampsia. F. Cohen, Bonn 1924.
  • The clinical picture of indirect metaplasia of the ectopic cylindrical cell mucosa of the portio. In: Archives for Gynecology. Vol. 133 (1928), pp. 64-69, doi: 10.1007 / BF02283981 .
  • (with Otto von Franqué , Robert Meyer ) Anatomy and diagnosis of carcinomas, connective tissue and mixed tumors of the uterus, the bladder mole and the chorionic epithelioma malignum. In: Walter Stoeckel (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Gynäkologie. 3rd, completely revised and enlarged edition. Vol. 6, half 1, JF Bergmann, Munich 1930.
  • Introduction to colposcopy. Hartung, Hamburg 1933.
  • Current problems of practical and scientific colposcopy. Fischer, Jena 1956.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Updated edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 257.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Volker Lehmann: Chronicle of the women's clinic Altona Bülowstraße.
  3. ↑ a b c d Franklin Kopitzsch , Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biografie: Personenlexikon . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 .
  4. ↑ Hans-Joachim Lang : The women of Block 10. Medical experiments in Auschwitz. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-50222-0 , pp. 144-166.
  5. ^ Robert J. Lifton : The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. Basicbooks, op. Cit. 1986, ISBN 0-465-04904-4 , p. 391 ( online ).
  6. ^ Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz. Europaverlag, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-548-33014-2 , p. 427 f.
  7. ↑ Eugenio Fusco, Francesco Padula, Emanuela Mancini, Alessandro Cavaliere: History of colposcopy: a brief biography of Hinselmann . In: Journal of Prenatal Medicine . tape 2 , no. 2 , 2008, ISSN  1971-3282 , p. 19-23 , PMID 22439022 , PMC 3279084 (free full text).
  8. ^ Frank Louwen: DGGG board decision on the occasion of the discussion about Hans Hinselmann. Frauenarzt 56 (2015), p. 302.
personal data
SURNAME Hinselmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumunster
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1959
Place of death Hamburg-Othmarschen