Alwin from Coler

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Alwin from Coler

Alwin Gustav Edmund (von) Coler (born March 15, 1831 in Gröningen , † August 26, 1901 in Berlin ) was a German medical officer. As a Prussian general staff doctor, he was largely responsible for the creation of modern military medicine in Germany.

Life

His parents were the postmaster of Bernau Ludwig Heinrich Coler (* June 17, 1795, † January 15, 1873) and his wife Sofie geb. Gossens († February 4, 1876).

Career

After graduating from high school in Cologne , Coler studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin from 1852 . At the beginning of his studies he became active in the Corps Marchia Berlin . In 1856 he was with a study on the effect of lead on the human body to Dr. med. PhD. In the same year he entered the Army Medical Service of the Prussian Army . Coler took part in the German-Danish War and the German War . In 1867 he was assigned to the army medical staff, and in 1868 he joined the newly established military medical department of the War Ministry as a department head . As a division doctor he took part in the war against France in 1870/71 .

Coler has since played a prominent part in the development of the modern army's medical system . So he was involved in

  • the creation of the medical officer corps
  • the introduction of the arms service for medical professionals
  • the establishment of advanced training courses for advanced training in the medical field
  • the introduction of antisepsis
  • the creation of a peace order
  • the filing of the war medical report 1870/71
  • the edition of the peace medical reports of the army

1874 Coler was appointed Surgeon-General conveyed. As King of Prussia, Wilhelm I raised Coler to the hereditary Prussian nobility on December 19, 1884 . In 1889 Coler became a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and in the same year he took over the position of General Staff Doctor of the Army (since 1891 with the rank of Lieutenant General) at the head of the Prussian military medical service. In 1892 he was also appointed full honorary professor at Berlin University. He introduced the transportable hospital barracks.

family

Gravestone for Alwin and Edda von Coler (2013)

Coler married on June 19, 1865 in Braunsfelde, Friedeberg Nm. Edda von Wedel (born August 30, 1841 in Berlin, † March 9, 1923 in Potsdam ), the daughter of the Prussian lieutenant colonel and landowner Otto von Wedel, landlord on Hakenfelde near Spandau , and Laura Schroeder. The couple had four children:

  • August Otto Ludwig Walter (born April 11, 1866), Major ⚭ 1902 Adelheid von dem Knesebeck (born March 26, 1879)
  • Edda Auguste (* February 17, 1868) ⚭ 1893 Otto Helmut Friedrich Georg von Stenglin (* August 20, 1859 - † August 2, 1910)
  • Elisabeth Laura Sophie Auguste (May 5, 1870 - July 16, 1870)
  • Harry Johannes Edwin (* September 16, 1872; † May 27, 1915), Major ⚭ 1898 Else Hasse (* December 13, 1878)

Alwin von Coler and his wife Edda were buried in the Invalidenfriedhof . The grave was restored after German reunification and marked with a tombstone.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 5/306.
  2. ↑ Alwin von Coler's membership entry at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on November 13, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Coler, Alwin von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coler, Alwin Gustav Edmund from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general staff doctor
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Groeningen
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1901
Place of death Berlin