We deeply mourn the loss of Prof. Emeritus Hans T. Versmold, who died on September 27, 2021. He was Professor for Pediatrics and Director of the Children’s Clinic of the Benjamin Franklin Hospital, Free University of Berlin from 1990 to 2003, and most importantly for us (MMO and GL) our dear friend and colleague, and for us (EM, MZ, CCR), also an extraordinary teacher and role model.

Hans Versmold was the son of a doctor and a midwife, and was born on May 18, 1937, in Gotha. After his state exam in Munich, he began his research career in Biochemistry as a scholar of the German Research Council from 1965 to 1967, before starting his fellowship as a pediatrician at von Hauner’s children’s hospital. This was the identifiable budding of his professional life that would prosper in three realms—in Munich, Berlin, and the global domain where his locally bred talents served the rapidly expanding world of neonatology.

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