Klinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe

The Klinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe (Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics) is a specialty department within Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH, a maximum-care municipal hospital group based in Chemnitz, Germany. It provides comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic services across all areas of gynecology and obstetrics, and has done so for more than 100 years according to its own history. The clinic operates as the only Level I perinatal center in West Saxony, offering round-the-clock care for pregnancy and birth, and is supported by an affiliated parent-child center. On the gynecological side, it serves as a maximum-care provider with certified breast and gynecological cancer centers (certified by the German Cancer Society, DKG), a certified dysplasia consultation (AG CPC/DKG), and specialized programs in senology, prenatal diagnostics, urogynecology, and general gynecology. The clinic is led by Chief Physician PD Dr. med. habil. Paul Gaß, MHBA. It is part of Klinikum Chemnitz, which has 1,735 planned beds across three locations, is the third-largest municipally owned hospital in Germany, and is 100% owned by the City of Chemnitz. The parent group treated around 59,600 inpatients and 76,500 outpatients in 2025 and employs roughly 7,400 staff across the group. The clinic's services are embedded in a broader academic and regional care network, with Klinikum Chemnitz serving as an academic teaching hospital of the universities in Dresden and Leipzig.

The Klinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe is a department of Klinikum Chemnitz, whose institutional roots reach back to the 14th century. The parent organization traces its origins to a "Hospital vor den Toren der Stadt" (hospital outside the city gates) documented in 1350 and the Hospital St. Georg first mentioned in 1395. Over the following centuries, medical care in Chemnitz remained modest until the city's rapid industrial growth in the 19th century, when the population surged from over 100,000 in 1883 to 360,000 by 1930. This growth necessitated new hospital construction, largely under municipal management from the mid-19th century to the end of World War I. In 1905, the current Krankenhaus Dresdner Straße opened as the "Nerven- und Siechenheilanstalt Chemnitz." In 1915, the city built the hospital in Küchwald, followed in 1918 by the Frauen- und Säuglingsklinik (Women's and Infants' Clinic). These facilities formed the core of what would become the modern Klinikum Chemnitz. The clinic itself states that it has offered a broad spectrum of gynecological and obstetric diagnostics and therapy for more than 100 years. In 1994, Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH was established from the former Städtische Kliniken Chemnitz (Municipal Clinics of Chemnitz). Today, the clinic operates within a 1,735-bed maximum-care hospital group that is the third-largest municipally owned hospital in Germany, 100% owned by the City of Chemnitz. It serves as the only Level I perinatal center in West Saxony and includes certified breast and gynecological cancer centers, a dysplasia consultation, and a parent-child center. The clinic is led by Chief Physician PD Dr. med. habil. Paul Gaß, MHBA.

• 1994

  Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH founded from the Städtische Kliniken Chemnitz.

• 1918

  Establishment of the Frauen- und Säuglingsklinik (Women's and Infants' Clinic).

• 1915

  Construction of the hospital in Küchwald by the city.

• 1905

  Opening of the Nerven- und Siechenheilanstalt Chemnitz (today's Krankenhaus Dresdner Straße).

• First documented mention of a hospital outside the city gates of Chemnitz, an early root of Klinikum Chemnitz.

• First mention of Hospital St. Georg in Chemnitz.

Maximum-care provider for gynecology and obstetrics in West Saxony, with the only Level I perinatal center in the region and certified cancer centers.

• Obstetrics and perinatal care

  Round-the-clock care for pregnancy and birth as a Level I perinatal center.

• Gynecological oncology

  Certified gynecological cancer center (DKG) offering interdisciplinary, guideline-compliant diagnosis and treatment.

• Senology / Breast Center

  Certified breast center (DKG) for breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.

• Prenatal diagnostics

  Specialized prenatal diagnostic services.

• Urogynecology

  Urogynecological services.

• Dysplasia consultation

  Certified dysplasia consultation (AG CPC/DKG) for genital dysplasia.

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2. 2Klinikum Chemnitz - Mein Krankenhaus | Geschichte des Klinikums Chemnitz und seiner Vorläuferklinikumchemnitz.de
3. 3Klinikum Chemnitz - Mein Krankenhaus | Firmenprofilklinikumchemnitz.de
4. 4Klinikum Chemnitz - Mein Krankenhaus | Organisationklinikumchemnitz.de
5. 5Wikidata: Klinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfewikidata.org