Siegfried Stephan

Siegfried Stephan (born August 14, 1883 in Graefenhainichen ; † July 29, 1948 in Greifswald ) was a German gynecologist at the University of Greifswald.

Life

Siegfried Stephan's parents were Gotthold Stephan and his wife Louise née. Vallette. He attended the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Eberswalde , where he graduated from high school in 1904 in order to then study medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Royal University of Greifswald . In 1905 he joined the Corps Borussia Greifswald , of which he later became an honorary member. In 1910 he passed the state examination. He then completed his medical internship in anatomy at the University of Greifswald. In April 1911 he received his license to practice medicine and, on the same date, an assistant position in the University Women's Clinic in Greifswald with Professor Richard Kroemer, where he received training in obstetrics and gynecology until 1912 . On September 14, 1912 he received his doctorate summa cum laude as Dr. med. (Topic of the doctoral thesis: The congenital renal dystopia in women from a clinical and embryological point of view ).

In 1912 Stephan left the clinic for family reasons and moved to the gynecological clinic at the University of Gießen , where he continued his training in obstetrics and gynecology with Erich Opitz (1871–1926) until 1914 . Here he mainly dealt with technical questions of gynecological radiology ; he was able to acquire two X-ray patents in this area.

After completing his specialist training, he rejoined the Greifswald University Women's Clinic on March 16, 1914. On July 1, 1914, he was appointed senior physician and deputy head of the clinic, a position he held until 1922 (from 1914 to 1917 under director Kroemer, from 1918 to 1922 under director O. Hoehne ). Gynecological radiation therapy remained his main area of ​​work.

When Kroemer received a draft for military service immediately after the outbreak of the First World War , Stephan managed the clinic until his return and also held the lectures. He also worked intensively on his habilitation . When Kroemer returned from the front line for health reasons in the summer of 1915, Stephan was drafted as his replacement that same year. He was employed as a surgeon in field hospitals and as a military doctor on the Western Front (awards: Iron Cross II and I class).

In July 1916 he qualified as a lecturer in gynecology and obstetrics while on leave from the front. After Kroemer's death, Stephan was called back to the clinic from the front in November 1917. Until the appointment of the new clinic director, Prof. Hoehne, he was acting provisionally until the end of April 1918. Stephan's particular interest continued to be in the medical application of X-ray technology. In addition to technical issues relating to radiation therapy, he also dealt with its clinical application, particularly in the case of peritoneal and genital tuberculosis . He was particularly interested in photographic methods, especially in the field of color photography: he had already experimented with French Lumière plates before the World War . He also devoted himself to inflammation .

On February 17, 1922, Stephan was appointed associate professor in Greifswald. In August 1922 he was appointed director of the Provincial Midwife Training Institute and Women's Clinic on Karkutschstrasse in Stettin ; he took up the position on October 1, 1922. He thereby dissolved the secret medical council and director Dr. Ernst Bauer, who had left the Provincial Midwife Training Institute and Women's Clinic after 42 years of service for reasons of age. Bauer had been appointed director of what was then the midwifery training institute in 1880. When this institution, which was located on Elisabethstraße at the time, was no longer able to cope with the requirements due to the city's population increase, Bauer had a new building in Karkutschstraße, which he was able to move into in 1894.

When Stephan took over this facility in 1922, it was again no longer up to the requirements. On his initiative and according to his suggestions, the Stettin State Women's Clinic was founded in the period from 1929 to 1931 on a 26,500 square meter, quiet site on Roonstrasse at the southeast corner of Quistorppark and Westendsee with a financial investment of 4.3 million Reichsmarks ( LFK Stettin) (suburb of Stettin 7, Roonstrasse 9–11). The new, colored clinker brick construction, which had 230 beds for adults and 114 for babies and which was equipped with the most modern medical facilities, lecture halls and accommodation, was handed over on October 12, 1931. On the occasion of the handover, Stephan was awarded the title of 'Senior Medical Officer'. The generously designed new clinic was soon named 'Storchenburg' by the people of Szczecin.

When the Red Army approached during the Second World War , the LFK was first evacuated to the seaside resort of Lubmin near Greifswald in March 1945 . Stephan returned to Greifswald as director of the Greifswald University Women's Clinic in May 1945 after this position had to be filled following the death of the previous head of the clinic.

Stephan published numerous scientific papers in the field of gynecology and obstetrics and is the inventor of an X-ray tube cooling device and an X-ray spreading speculum . In recognition of his overall professional performance, Stephan was given the special honor of holding the conference of the North German Society for Gynecology in the LFK Stettin on May 22, 1937 , a privilege that, with a few exceptions, had always been reserved for universities.

Siegfried Stephan was married to Aiga Stephan geb. Schlueter and had a daughter. In Stettin his family lived at Karkutschstrasse 7 until the end of October 1931, and from November 1, 1931 at Roonstrasse 12. He died of heart failure in Greifswald in 1948.

Stephen's publications are listed in: Walter Stoeckel (Hrsg.): Deutsches Gynäkologen -verzeichnis , 1939.

Works

• X-ray irradiation of female peritoneum and genital tuberculosis , 1920.
• Fluorine treatment in women , 1922.
• Normal and pathological pregnancy, normal and pathological puerperium. In: German Reich Midwives Textbook , 1938.

literature

• Günter Köhler: The history of the state women's clinic in Stettin. Stettiner Bürgerbrief, No. 24, 1998, ISSN  1619-6201 , pp. 40-52.
• Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft , Vol. 2: L – Z. Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 .
• German biographical archive .
• Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Stephan, Siegfried , in: Important historical personalities of the Düben Heath, AMF - No. 237, 2012, pp. 98–99.

Web links

• Literature about Siegfried Stephan in the state bibliography MV
• History of the obstetric and gynecological collection. (Website of the University of Greifswald, March 2, 2015) ( Memento of March 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 95/412