The analysis of 87 cases of early gastric cancers does not demonstrate significant differences from findings which are reported in the Japanese literatur, above all as far as the macroscopic types, the histological pattern and the topographic distribution is concerned. The frequency of that diagnose during the fourth and fifth decade of the patients is hereby remarkable. The first biopsy allowed the diagnose of a carcinoma in the majority of all cases. The number of diagnosis of early gastric cancer increases together with the growing amount of gastric-bioptical examinations.Key-Words: Early gastric cancer, frequency and types of early gastric cancer, early gastric cancer in Germany.Reporting on our experience with early gastric carcinoma in Germany I have to stress that I acquired the knowledge on this subject in Japan. When I studied during a visit to Japan in spring 1970 the large number and the many aspects of early gastric cancer I thought that I was dealing with a "national Japanese carcinoma". Of course, we knew the description of mucosal carciEndoscopy 7 (1975) 5-10