Matthias Bloechle

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Matthias Bloechle (* 1962 in Heidelberg ) is a German gynecologist who became known through the use of pre-implantation diagnostics and a subsequent self-disclosure. As a result, he was acquitted in a criminal case that went as far as the Federal Court of Justice , and the legal basis was changed.

Life

Bloechle is the oldest of four children and comes from a pastor's household. He studied medicine at the University of Marburg and at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He received his doctorate with a thesis on "The vaginosonography of the cervix uteri" in 1993 at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He completed his specialist training in gynecology at the Charité University Hospital , where he worked for several years in the department of reproductive medicine and endocrinology .

Since 1999 he has been practicing in a fertility practice that he founded together with his wife in Berlin-Charlottenburg on Rankestrasse . After performing pre-implantation diagnostics on three couples in Germany for the first time in 2005, Bloechle turned himself in in 2006 to clarify the legal status of PGD.

The proceedings ended in 2010 with an acquittal for Bloechle by the Federal Court of Justice , which caused a lot of media coverage. He had previously been acquitted by the Berlin district court in 2009. According to Bloechle, the legal proceedings cost several 10,000 euros.

Bloechle is the father of five children and lives with his family in Berlin. He was a member of the Greens at times, but left the party because it was too dogmatic for him. Today he is a member of the FDP .

Publications

  • From the right to a healthy child , Irisiana, Munich 2011, 208 pages

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ taz.de of March 12, 2011: The doctor who implanted the dispute
  2. ↑ taz.de
personal data
SURNAME Bloechle, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg