Siegfried Trotnow

Siegfried Trotnow (born January 25, 1941 in Skrzeczon , Upper Silesia , † April 5, 2004 in Erlangen ) was a German gynecologist and reproductive medicine specialist . He played a decisive role in establishing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in Germany.

Life

Siegfried Trotnow attended high school in Bad Segeberg before at the universities of Kiel , Marburg and Erlangen studied medicine . From 1970 worked in the University Women's Clinic in Erlangen. In 1974 he became a medical specialist , his habilitation followed three years later. In 1980 he was appointed professor . From 1985 he was chief physician at the Northwest Hospital in Frankfurt am Main . Siegfried Trotnow died on April 5, 2004 as a result of cancer.

Act

From 1978 onwards, Siegfried Trotnow was involved in a working group that Georg Bregulla founded in the mid-1960s , dealing with possibilities for artificial insemination . On July 25, 1978 in Oldham , England, Louise Joy Brown was born , the first human being conceived in vitro . The English doctors did not inform the professional world about the details of their method. Five more children were born in this way in Great Britain, Australia and the USA before the first German “test tube baby ” was born on April 16, 1982 after three years of preparation . This achievement was preceded by twelve failed attempts. The ultimately successful efforts of the German researchers Tatjana Kniewald, Safaa Al-Hasani and Siegfried Trotnow were realized without financial support from the German Research Foundation and were accompanied by great media coverage after the announcement of the birth. The boy conceived by means of in vitro fertilization was shown on the cover of the Quick magazine .

Web links

Thomas Wenzel: The "father" of the first German test tube baby is dead - Siegfried Trotnow died of cancer . Press release from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, April 28, 2004

Individual evidence

↑ Hans Ludwig: Memory of Siegfried Trotnow (1941-2004) and the first "in-vitro baby" in Germany. In: Rolf Kreienberg, Hans Ludwig: 125 years of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-15011-1 , p. 588.
^ E. Siebzehnrübl, S. Al-Hasani: Obituary for S. Trotnow . In: Ricardo E. Felberbaum, Klaus Bühler, Hans van der Ven: The German IVF Register 1996-2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-37324-7 , pp. 237f.

personal data
SURNAME	Trotnow, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German gynecologist and reproductive medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Skrzeczon
DATE OF DEATH	April 5, 2004
Place of death	gain

[1] Hans Ludwig: Memory of Siegfried Trotnow (1941-2004) and the first "in-vitro baby" in Germany. In: Rolf Kreienberg, Hans Ludwig: 125 years of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-15011-1 , p. 588.

[2] E. Siebzehnrübl, S. Al-Hasani: Obituary for S. Trotnow . In: Ricardo E. Felberbaum, Klaus Bühler, Hans van der Ven: The German IVF Register 1996-2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-37324-7 , pp. 237f.