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Deeply affected: Science Minister Markus Blume pays tribute to the late clinic director Professor Hanns-Henning Eckstein as a brilliant scientist and wonderful person.
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After the death of another top Munich doctor, Bavaria's Science Minister Markus Blume addressed emotional words to family, friends and colleagues.
His death shocked thousands of successfully treated patients and many colleagues at the Rechts der Isar University Hospital.
You have to say goodbye to Professor Hanns-Henning Eckstein, the long-time director of vascular surgery at the model hospital of the Technical University of Munich on Ismaninger Strasse.
Eckstein died at the age of 68 as a result of an insidious cancer - just a few months after he retired.
Top specialist at the operating table, highly valued as a doctor and person: Professor Hanns-Henning Eckstein, here in the North Operating Center of the University Hospital on the Right of the Isar, succumbed to a serious illness.
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Minister Markus Blume: “We are losing an outstanding doctor and university professor”
The sympathy is enormous - on the one hand there is horror, bewilderment and sadness, but on the other hand many companions, colleagues and partners look back with gratitude and recognition on the life's achievements of the exceptional surgeon.
Bavaria's Minister of Science also reacted with an emotional message: “I am deeply affected by the death of Professor Eckstein.
We are losing an outstanding doctor and university professor, but above all a wonderful person.
My thoughts are with his family and loved ones.
I wish you a lot of strength in these difficult times.”
Eckstein developed Munich into a leading center for vascular surgery
Beginning of an era that lasted almost two decades: Professor Hanns-Henning Eckstein (right) taking office as head of vascular surgery in 2003 with his predecessor Professor Peter Maurer.
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As Minister of Science, Blume is responsible, among other things, for the two large Munich university hospitals and is considered by many senior doctors to be genuinely interested, always informed and prepared.
Despite his short term in office, Blume is said to already be relatively well connected in the university medical industry.
On the death of Professor Eckstein, the minister told the editorial team of Münchner Merkur and tz: “Scientifically brilliant and always focused on the well-being of the patients: In almost 20 years as head of vascular surgery at the Rechts der Isar, Prof. Dr.
Hanns-Henning Eckstein expanded Munich into a leading center for vascular surgery.
His achievements shine widely: as President of the German Society for Vascular Surgery and through his work in Pittsburgh and Stanford, he shaped the realignment of his entire department both nationally and internationally.”
Loss of the third clinic director at the Rechts der Isar Clinic in just a few years
Eckstein's death was the sad continuation of a series of strokes of fate at the university hospital on the right side of the Isar.
With Eckstein, the renowned model hospital of the Technical University of Munich has already lost its third clinic director in just a few years.
The head of the ear, nose and throat clinic, Professor Henning Bier, and the head of the eye clinic, Professor Chris P. Lohmann, had previously been tragically torn from life.
In addition, just last week, the clinic family said goodbye to their former chief surgeon and long-time medical director, Professor Jörg Rüdiger Siewert, at a memorial service.