Werner Maassen

Werner Maaßen (born October 17, 1920 in Düsseldorf , † April 7, 2009 ) was a German physician.

Life

Werner Maaßen studied medicine at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn after working and doing military service . At the Medical Academy in Dusseldorf , the forerunner of the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf , he put his state examination and was in 1948 with a thesis on septic diseases in childhood to Dr. med. PhD . He was an assistant u. a. with Ernst Derra , Erich Boden , Peter Lorbacher . In 1953 he became an assistant doctor, later a senior physician at the Holsterhausen sanctuary, later the Ruhrlandklinik Essen-Heidhausen .

He completed his habilitation in 1966 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster with the text "Results and significance of mediastinoscopy and other thoracic biopsy procedures". From 1966 he was the first lecturer in pneumology in Germany. From 1967 to 1985 he was chief physician at the Ruhrlandklinik . He developed the Ruhrlandklinik into a supra-regional, internationally recognized center for pulmonology and thoracic surgery.

He is the author of the standard work in lung surgery "Atlas of Thorax Surgery", which was published in 1989 in German and Japanese.

Act

He was considered an expert in pulmonology , thoracic surgery and pulmonology . He developed endoscopic procedures, in particular bronchoscopy and mediastinoscopy, and introduced examination methods such as surgical lung and pleural biopsy . He optimized thoracic surgical operating techniques.

Werner Maaßen was President of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery from 1980 to 1981 , and President of the German Society for Pneumology and Tuberculosis .

In 2007, he and his daughter Anette Maaßen founded the “Professor Dr. Werner Maaßen Foundation ”.

Web links

• Professor Dr. Werner Maaßen Foundation
• Werner Maaßen is 80 years old. In: Pneumology. 54, p. 478, doi : 10.1055 / s-2000-7694 .