Professor Martin Stauch

Professor Dr. Martin Stauch was born on March 8, 1928 in Berlin. In 1949 he began his medical studies at the University of Cologne and then subsequently at the University of Frankfurt. The award of a Fulbright Fellowship in 1955 provided the opportunity to undertake a two-year Fellowship in Internal Medicine, first at Ford Sanders Presbyterian Hospital, teaching hospital of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and then Colorado State Hospital at the University of Colorado in Pueblo. He returned to Germany to take up a Fellowship of the Academy of Sciences in Mainz. Martin Stauch’s career in internal medicine and cardiology was launched at the University of Frankfurt Medical Center with Professor Hoff and Professor Heinecker. In 1967, he was appointed Professor of Cardiology and Medicine at the University of Ulm and headed the Division of Cardiology, Angiology, and Pulmonology until 1989. He served as Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Sports Medicine from 1989 until his retirement in 1994.