Ursula Schmidt-Tintemann

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Ursula Schmidt-Tintemann (born Tintemann; born June 19, 1924 in Goldap ; † July 26, 2017 in Vaterstetten ) was a German plastic surgeon and professor emeritus at the Technical University of Munich .

Career

After graduating from high school in Königsberg , studying medicine at the Universities of Königsberg , Prague and Munich and completing her doctorate in 1951, Schmidt-Tintemann began her specialist training with Georg Maurer at the Munich- Perlach Hospital. With Maurer, she moved to the hospital on the right of the Isar in the Haidhausen district of Munich ; In 1956 she became a specialist in surgery . In the years that followed, she trained in plastic surgery in the United States , Great Britain, and Austria .

From 1958, Schmidt-Tintemann set up an independent department for plastic surgery in the hospital on the right bank of the Isar. Schmidt-Tintemann obtained her habilitation in 1969 on the subject of plastic surgery , also with Georg Maurer. From 1975 she was a professor at the Technical University of Munich . Schmidt-Tintemann worked in the clinic until her retirement in 1984.

Act

Schmidt-Tintemann was a pioneer of plastic surgery in Germany who successfully campaigned for the establishment of plastic surgery as an independent medical specialty. At the beginning of their work, the doctors, who were involved in plastic surgery and reconstructive surgery, came from different disciplines, mainly from oral, maxillofacial and facial surgery or ENT medicine. Schmidt-Tintemann resigned from the German Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in order to join forces with like-minded colleagues in 1968 to form the Association of German Plastic Surgeons , which only accepted doctors who deal exclusively with plastic surgery. During her presidency of the association, which is now the German Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons , "Plastic Surgery" was recognized as a branch designation for specialists in surgery in 1977, a decisive step on the way to the establishment of a specialist in plastic surgery in 1992. Even after On her retirement, she represented the interests of her subject as chairwoman of the plastic surgery section of the German Society for Surgery.

Seven plastic surgeons, who later all headed their own departments, completed their habilitation at Schmidt-Tintemann.

With the medical-scientific television series Our Life in Your Hands , produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk and broadcast in the first program , Schmidt-Tintemann broke new ground in Germany in 1965. The documentaries had good reviews, also from the ranks of specialist colleagues, but were controversial in terms of professional politics and were removed from the program after two episodes.

Schmidt-Tintemann took a position on the ethical and psychosocial implications of plastic surgery for decades. In their view, plastic surgery had to pay particular attention to these implications in order to achieve the goal of restoring the unity of form, function and aesthetics. In contrast to the trend towards cosmetic surgery, she emphasized the reconstructive objectives of her subject and called for plastic surgery to be strictly oriented towards medical indications instead of market-related activities in which the doctor would become a pure service provider. However, when determining the indication, the doctor must also take into account whether the patient would lose his job as a result of signs of aging.

A professional political issue that Schmidt-Tintemann also dealt with was the role of women in surgery.

Ursula Schmidt-Tintemann's partner was the television journalist Dagobert Lindlau .

Honors and memberships

literature

  • Riccardo E. Giunta: Ursula Schmidt-Tintemann - pioneer of plastic surgery in Germany. In: hand surgery, microsurgery, plastic surgery. Vol. 40, 2008, No. 6, pp. 408-410, DOI: 10.1055 / s-2008-1038965 .
  • Wolfgang Mühlbauer et al .: Ms. Em. Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Ursula Schmidt-Tintemann June 19, 1924 to July 26, 2017. In: Hand surgery, microsurgery, plastic surgery. DOI: 10.1055 / s-0043-119122 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice Ursula Schmidt-Tintemann , Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 5, 2017
  2. Medicine: Skin and Hair. In: Der Spiegel 21/1965. May 19, 1965, pp. 130-133 , accessed November 30, 2018 .
  3. Beauty: Goods for sale. In: Der Spiegel 39/1976. September 20, 1976, pp. 242–245 , accessed November 30, 2018 . Ursula Schmidt-Tintemann: Commentary on G. Maio's work : Is aesthetic surgery still medicine at all? An ethical criticism . In: Handchirurgie, Microsurgery, Plastic Surgery , Vol. 39 No. 3, 2007, pp. 195-196, ISSN 0722-1819
     
  4. Ursula Schmidt-Tintemann: Women in surgery. In: The surgeon. Vol. 68, No. 6, 1997, pp. 583-585
  5. All the best, Professor! - The "mother of plastic surgery" celebrates her 90th birthday. In: Graefinger Anzeiger. June 26, 2014, accessed November 30, 2018 .
  6. Grande Dame of plastic surgery: Prof. Ursula Schmidt-Tintemann receives the highest scientific award from the Technical University of Munich. Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, July 12, 2014, accessed on November 30, 2018 .