What is "pfannenstiel"

Pfannenstiel may refer to:

People:

• Erna Pfannenstiel (1922–2008), allegedly a female guard in two Nazi concentration camps, tried but never convicted
• Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel (1862–1909), a German gynecologist who was a native of Berlin (see Pfannenstiel incision)
• Jackalyne Pfannenstiel (born 1947), United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment)
• Lutz Pfannenstiel (born 1973), retired German footballer
• Peter Pfannenstiel (1934–2013), a German professor of medicine and thyroid expert; son of Wilhelm Pfannenstiel
• Wilhelm Pfannenstiel (1890–1982), a German professor of hygiene and SS Standartenführer; son of Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel

Other:

• Pfannenstiel incision, a type of surgical incision that allows access to the abdomen
• Pfannenstiel (mountain), a mountain in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland
• Pfannenstiel (ship, 1998), a ship operated on Lake Zurich in Switzerland

Pfannenstiel (el. ) is a wooded mountain respectively a region overlooking the Lake Zürich and Zürcher Oberland in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.