Heinrich Maass

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Heinrich Maass (born November 15, 1927 in Flensburg ; † January 12, 2016 ) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician .

Life

Grave of Heinrich Maass ( Maass ) and his wife

Maass studied medicine in Hamburg , Zurich and Düsseldorf between 1948 and 1953 . In 1954 he received his doctorate and then received a two-year scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) to work at the University Women's Clinic in Hamburg and at the Biochemical Institute there. In 1962 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the effects of X-rays and cytostatics on tumor metabolism, and in 1968 he received an extraordinary professorship . Maas initially worked as an assistant doctor at the university women's clinic, then as a senior doctor. In 1976 he took over the management of the women's clinic at the St.-Jürgen-Straße Central Hospital in Bremen , before he was appointed to the Chair of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University Women's Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf as successor to Klaus Thomsen in 1984 . In 1995 Maass retired . He died on January 12, 2016 at the age of 88 and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery southeast of Chapel 4 (grid square C13,162-73). His wife Gisela Maass, b. Irwahn, was also buried there.

Act

With his scientific work, Maass has made a significant contribution to the development of new concepts for the treatment of breast cancer, including - together with Elwood Jensen and Peter Jungbluth - the hormone receptor concept for therapy selection, including additive and ablative hormonal cancer therapy (see breast cancer #Antihormonelle Therapy ). Maass was one of the pioneers of breast-conserving surgery in Germany.

Maass served as president of the German Society for Senology and the German Cancer Society .

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Hanns Dietel , Jürgen Heinrich: The North German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics. A documentation on the occasion of the 95th anniversary. P. 77, online (PDF; 3.0 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In memory of Prof. em. Dr. med. Heinrich Maass
  2. ↑ birthday. Dtsch Arztebl 2002; 99 (46): A-3130 online
  3. ↑ a b Awards. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt 1999; 96 (23): A-1593 / B-1365 / C-1268
  4. ↑ a b Dietrich Berg : Honors. 52nd Congress of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics 2000, pp. 17-24, online
  5. ^ Hufeland Prize: Prize Winner (PDF, 142 kB); Retrieved February 20, 2016
  6. ^ The Karl Heinrich Bauer Medal at the German Cancer Society (krebsgesellschaft.de); Retrieved September 5, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Maass, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2016