In Memoriam - Andreas Flach

Abstract

Andreas Flach was an important contributor to German pediatric surgery and, in particular, to pediatric urology. I first met him 1965 when I still was a medical student. He was a surgical senior house officer at the University Hospital of Tübingen. His interest in surgery of children and his surgical talent were already evident but he still intended to gain more experience in neonatal surgery. Therefore he spent some time with Max Grob, former head of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Zürich.