Martin Link

Martin Link (born August 6, 1934 in Königsberg / East Prussia ; † July 9, 2005 in Dresden ) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician .

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Born in East Prussia in 1934 , the family fled to Bergen on the island of Rügen at the end of the Second World War . Martin Link graduated from high school here in 1952 . From 1952 to 1958 he studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig and Greifswald and received on May 1, 1959, the approval as a doctor . He began his specialist training in the field of pathology in Stralsund , which he completed in 1963 with certification as a specialist in pathological anatomy. In the same year Link received his doctorate in Greifswald . In 1966 he moved to the state women's clinic of the Magdeburg Medical Academy under Egon Bernoth and in 1969 acquired specialist certification for gynecology and obstetrics. Link led to the clinic pathological and cytological laboratory and in 1970 with a thesis on variations of the mucosa cervical uteri in the area of the outer cervix during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum with special reference to subzylindrischen vacuolization habilitation . In 1977 he was appointed lecturer . In 1979 Link took over the position of chief physician at the gynecological clinic at the Dresden-Friedrichstadt Hospital . In 1984 he was appointed honorary professor at the Academy for Medical Training of the GDR in Berlin . In 1993, Martin Link and his wife, Heidrun Link, a specialist in urology and gynecology , settled in a group practice with a cytological laboratory.

Link was second chairman of the Saxon Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics, member of the board of the working group cervical pathology and colposcopy of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGGG), secretary of the working group medical law of the DGGG and board member of the German society for cytology. In addition, Link was co-founder of the professional association of gynecologists in Saxony , whose first state chairman he became in 1990. In 1992 he was elected 2nd chairman of the association at federal level. In 1994 Link took over the role of spokesman for the Association of Professional Medical Associations (GFB) in Saxony. In 2000 he founded the Action Council East of resident doctors and psychotherapists and became its spokesman. In 2002 Martin Link was elected President of the Union Professionelle Internationale des Gynécologues et Obstétriciens (UPIGO), the international professional association of gynecologists. He held this position until 2004.

Martin Link died in Dresden in 2005 at the age of 70.

Fonts (selection)

• Martin Link: Autopsy findings in acute and chronic recurrent as well as postoperative pancreatic necrosis. Dissertation , University of Greifswald , 1963
• Martin Link: Variations of the mucosa cervicis uteri in the area of ​​the external cervix during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium with special consideration of the subcylindrical vacuolation. Habilitation thesis , Medical Academy Magdeburg , 1970
• Egon Bernoth , Martin Link, Wolfgang Weise : Gynecology: differential diagnosis and clinic. Thieme, Leipzig 1984

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• Karl-Werner Degen: Obituary for Prof. Dr. med. habil. Martin Link. Ärzteblatt Sachsen 8/2005, 421 (PDF; 47 kB)
• Wolfgang Weise : Prof. Martin Link (1934–2005) , Frauenarzt 46 (2005), 694-6 (PDF; 220 kB)
• Armin Malter: A Prussian in the best sense of the word. Prof. Martin Link (1934–2005) , gynecologist 46 (2005), 696 (PDF; 220 kB)

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Link in the catalog of the German National Library