Paul Strassmann

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Memorial plaque on the house, Schumannstrasse 18, in Berlin-Mitte
Gravestone in Berlin-Wannsee with a sculpture made by Adele Paasch during his lifetime

Paul Ferdinand Straßmann (also Strassmann) (born October 23, 1866 in Berlin ; † August 15, 1938 in Gstaad ) was a German gynecologist who has made special contributions to obstetrics .

Life

Paul Straßmann came from a well-known Jewish family who moved to Berlin from the province of Posen . By 1913, the family had eight doctors, including such well-known doctors as Ferdinand , Fritz and Wolfgang Straßmann . Paul Ferdinand was born in Berlin in 1866 as the eldest son of Heinrich Straßmann (1834–1905), Royal Medical Councilor, and Louise Levy. He attended the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Berlin, where he passed the written Abitur at the age of 17 . As the best in his class, he was waived the oral exams. He then studied medicine at the universities in Berlin and Heidelberg . In 1884 he became a member of the Berlin fraternity Arminia . Back in Berlin he was Ernst von Bergmann's co-assistant . He received his doctorate in 1889 under Robert Michaelis von Olshausen with a dissertation "On the teaching of multiple pregnancies " in Berlin. From 1889 to 1891 he was Christian Adolf Hermann Löhlein's assistant at the Gießen University Women's Clinic . After a two-year study visit to England , he worked from 1892 to 1900 as an assistant to Adolf Ludwig Sigismund Gusserow at the obstetric and gynecological clinic at the Charité . In 1897 , Straßmann completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in obstetrics and gynecology at Berlin University.

From 1900, Paul Straßmann ran a private gynecological clinic he founded, which was built at Schumannstrasse 18 in 1908/1909 according to plans by the architect Max Fraenkel . The family had a city apartment in the building, the Straßmann House . During the First World War , Straßmann was the ordaining surgeon in the Tempelhofer Feld military hospital , and in 1918 he was awarded the honorary title of a secret medical councilor .

In 1904 Paul Straßmann became secretary of the Berlin Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology, and in 1925/6 its chairman. In 1906 he was promoted to titular professor and in 1919 to extraordinary professor. He was made an honorary doctorate from Birmingham University in 1911 and was elected to the Senate of Berlin University from 1923 to 1925. The Straßmann Clinic was very successful and widely known due to the operational skills of Paul Straßmann, so that it was visited by many surgeons and gynecologists, such as William James and Charles Horace Mayo .

Paul Straßmann was nationally and socially aware of Germany and converted to the Protestant faith in 1895 as a secularly educated Jew . He was married to Hedwig Rosenbaum and had two sons and two daughters. The best known is the actress and sports pilot Antonie Straßmann . His son Erwin Straßmann (1895–1972), like his father professor of gynecology, emigrated to the USA with the help of the Mayo brothers and was invited by them to the Mayo Clinic .

After the seizure of power, the National Socialists revoked Paul Straßmann's license to teach . At the same time, his clinic was closed, followed by a forced sale and move to Berlin-Dahlem. In 1938, the Straßmann couple went to Switzerland to go on vacation and to see two emigrated daughters again. There Paul Straßmann suffered a rupture of the pancreas from which he died on August 15, 1938.

Paul Straßmann was buried in the New Wannsee Cemetery. The family grave has been an honorary grave of the city of Berlin since 1984 .

On the Straßmann-Haus , today an office building, a memorial plaque has been commemorating the well-deserved doctor since September 10, 2003 .

Publications (selection)

  • Collaboration on the obstetrics textbook by Franz von Winckel , (Leipzig 1888, 1893).
  • The operative union of a double uterus. Zbl Gyn 43 (1908), 1322-1335

Scientific work on

  • vaginal surgical procedures, extrauterine pregnancies and the like a. m. in trade journals
  • Blood circulation in newborns
  • Hand disinfection and lysoform
  • The plastic production of the uterine cavity by implanting the tube
  • Sports and women's diseases
  • Instructions for aseptic obstetrics (textbook, 1895)
  • From the medicine of Rinascimento (based on the translation by JW von Goethe about the life of Benvenuto Cellini )
  • Medicinal and diet prescriptions for gynecological practice (Berlin 1912, 1931)
  • Health care of women (Leipzig 1913)

Named Strassmann are still Strassmann surgery (surgical correction of uterine malformation ) and Strassmann characters (even Strassmann phenomenon ) to determine the previously announced solution of the placenta after birth (a knock on the uterus is not the umbilical cord more palpable) connected.

literature

English version: The Strassmanns: Science, Politics, and Migration in Turbulent Times, 1793–1993, Berghan Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-84545-416-6 .

  • Rolf Winau: The Straßmann family. In: Jutta Lange-Quassowski, Volkmar Schneider: An important dynasty of doctors: The Strassmanns. Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Berlin 2012, pp. 13-26, ISBN 978-3-942271-70-7 .

Web links

Commons : Paul Straßmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 512.