Eberhard Koch

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Eberhard Karl Joseph Koch (born April 16, 1892 in Neviges ; † February 13, 1955 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German physiologist and university professor .

Life

After graduating from school in 1910, Koch completed a medical degree at the Universities of Kiel, Munich and Bonn. When the First World War broke out , he volunteered for the army and was deployed as a troop doctor on the Western Front. He was able to complete his studies during the war by taking emergency courses and intervening semesters and was awarded a doctorate in November 1918 at the University of Bonn. med. PhD. After completing his clinical training, from 1919 on he was assistant to Heinrich Ewald Hering at the Physiological Institute of the University of Cologne , where Bruno Kisch also worked as an assistant. Koch completed his habilitation in 1923 in Cologne for normal and pathological physiology and initially worked there as a private lecturer . Interrupted by a two-year compulsory assistant to Friedrich Moritz at the Medical University Clinic Cologne and teaching stays at the Physiological Institutes of the Universities of Leiden and Prague, he stayed for many years at the Cologne Physiological Institute, where he had been an associate professor with a teaching position in exercise physiology since April 1929. His investigations particularly concerned cardiovascular research.

From October 1930 he was employed at the Kerckhoff Institute in Bad Nauheim, where from 1931 he headed the Department of Experimental Pathology. In July 1931 he obtained his habilitation at the University of Giessen . At the beginning of the National Socialist era , after the emigration of the institute director and founder Franz Maximilian Groedel , he took over the provisional management of the Kerckhoff Institute in October 1933.

At the German Society for Cardiology - Heart and Circulation Research , he was secretary from October 1933 and chairman from 1934. He held both offices of this medical society until 1948.

In the summer semester of 1935 he carried out a teaching position for aviation medicine at the University of Frankfurt am Main and was promoted to medical officer of the reserve in October 1935. At the Kerckhoff Institute, he took over the management of the aviation investigation center set up there, where negative pressure and oxygen tests were carried out. One of his assistants there was Franz Palme .

The NSDAP he resigned on May 1, 1937 at (membership. 5,222,586) and he was also a member of the Nazi Medical Association . At times he was a member of the Motor SA .

In October 1939 he was appointed to the chair of physiology at the University of Giessen as the successor to Karl Bürker and also continued to work as director of the Kerckhoff Institute. Politically speaking during the Weimar Republic , he was attested in the context of the appointment to be "today [...] thoroughly reliable". During the Second World War he was temporarily assigned to Vienna as a senior staff doctor. At the Physiological Institute of the University of Giessen, he conducted unsuspicious research at the aviation investigation center, which has now been relocated there. His research projects were "Improving vision through contrast enhancement" and "Testing spatial vision using stereo projection".

After the end of the war he was dismissed from the university office on May 13, 1946 for political reasons. His academic title was revoked and he then worked as an assistant at the Giessen Medical and Mental Hospital. Shortly afterwards he was also released from the position of director at the Kerckhoff Institute. After a trial in Friedberg, he was denazified as a fellow traveler . Koch tried the following years to assert pension claims and to rehabilitate himself. He died of progressive paralysis in 1955.

According to the physiologist Rudolf Thauer , Koch, “stimulated by the discovery of the carotid sinus nerves by his teacher Hering , has devoted his life primarily to researching the reflective self-regulation of the circulatory system , but has also made significant contributions in the fields of electrocardiography and aeronautical physiology delivered ".

literature

  • Sigrid Oehler-Klein (Ed.): The Medical Faculty of the University of Giessen during National Socialism and in the post-war period. People and institutions, upheavals and continuities (= The Medical Faculty of the University of Giessen , Volume 2). Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-09043-8 .
  • Wilhelm Rehmann (editor): Chronicle of the Ludwig University of Gießen 1907–1945 and the Justus Liebig University of Giessen 1946–1957 . In: Ludwig University, Justus Liebig University: 1607–1957. Festschrift for the 350th anniversary , Schmitz, Gießen 1957, p. 469 (short biography).
  • Timo Baumann: The German Society for Circulatory Research in National Socialism 1933–1945 , Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-662-54400-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Full name and biographical details according to: Wilhelm Rehmann (editor): Chronicle of the Ludwigs-Universität Gießen 1907-1945 and the Justus Liebig-Hochschule Gießen 1946-1957 . In: Ludwigs-Universität, Justus-Liebig-Hochschule: 1607 - 1957. Festschrift for the 350th anniversary , Giessen 1957, p. 469
  2. ^ A b Wilhelm Rehmann (editor): Chronicle of the Ludwigs-Universität Gießen 1907-1945 and the Justus Liebig-Hochschule Gießen 1946-1957 . In: Ludwigs-Universität, Justus-Liebig-Hochschule: 1607 - 1957. Festschrift for the 350th anniversary , Giessen 1957, p. 469
  3. ↑ Timo Baumann: The German Society for Circulatory Research in National Socialism 1933-1945 , Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2017, p. 243
  4. ↑ a b Timo Baumann: The German Society for Circulatory Research under National Socialism 1933-1945 , Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2017, p. 232
  5. ↑ Irene Raehlmann: Ergonomics in National Socialism, an analysis of the sociology of science . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, p. 222
  6. ^ Rudolf Thauer: The Physiological Institute . In: Ludwigs-Universität, Justus-Liebig-Hochschule: 1607 - 1957. Festschrift for the 350th anniversary , Schmitz, Gießen 1957, p. 38
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Eberhard Karl Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Neviges
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1955
Place of death Bad Nauheim