[Clinical pathology in the Hanseatic City of Lübeck from the planning of an institute to the formation of the "Medizinische Hochschule"].

The formation of an university institute of pathology at the Hanseatic city of Lübeck preceded a long, changeful planning, accompanied by a chain of historical events. In the 19th century, Lübeck owned seven different places for clinical or forensic autopsies. Thus, in the first years of the 20th century it was generally called for the formation of a "Central Institute of Pathology" that was completed after all in the year 1927. Two years later, Eberhard von Praun became head of the institute and was immediately confronted with the "Lübeck-disaster". He was followed 1935 by Ernst Jeckeln, who identified the "Enteritis necroticans" which appeared in North Germany in the first years after the "Second World War". He called the disease "Darmbrand", a term that is since then internationally used. Jeckeln became the first "Ordinarius for Pathology" at the "Medical Academy Lübeck", which was associated to the "University of Kiel". His long-time colleague was Alfred Wegener, who identified the "Wegener's granulomatosis". In the year 1972 Alfred Gropp became head of the institute, an all-round scientist and pathologist, e.g. well-known in the field of developmental pathology. During his term, the "Medical Academy" got the university status and was named "Medizinische Hochschule Lübeck".