Richard Maatz

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Maatz (around 1950)

Richard Friedrich Franz Maatz (born August 19, 1905 in Kiel , † April 25, 1989 in Bad Schwartau ) was a German surgeon .

Life

As the son of the tax lawyer of the same name, Maatz attended Hebbelschule , a secondary school in Kiel. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . After he had passed the state examination in Kiel in 1930, he spent two years with the pathologist Martin Staemmler at the Nauwerck House in Chemnitz. In 1932 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In October 1933 he went as an assistant to Wilhelm Anschütz in the Kiel surgery. A friendly cooperation developed with the (not yet qualified) senior physician Gerhard Küntscher . Maatz completed his habilitation on February 17, 1939, four years after Küntscher. Private lecturer since 1940, he was appointed associate professor on July 14, 1949 . He experienced the change of professorships with AW Fischer and Robert Wanke . With Küntscher and Wolfgang Lentz he formed the "triumvirate of the Küntscher nail". In 1954 he was chief physician of the new German Red Cross hospital in Busan , South Korea . After two years he went to the Auguste Viktoria Hospital in Berlin-Schöneberg as head . Retired in 1971, he was chairman of the 109th meeting of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons in 1972 . He was often in his vacation home in California, a lido in Schönberg (Holstein) . He spent his last years with one of his four daughters in Bad Schwartau. He was buried in the Eichhof park cemetery in Kronshagen. The Berlin Surgical Society awards the Richard Maatz scholarship.

Honors

  • Honorary member of the Berlin Surgical Society

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dissertation: Bacterium coli in pyelitis and cystitis .
  2. ^ W. Teichmann, C. Eggers, H.-J. Schröder: 100 years of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons . Hamburg 2009
  3. ^ Honorary members of the BCG