Franz Kössler (biophysicist)

Franz Kössler (born December 29, 1931 in Ketzelsdorf, today Koclirov) is a German scientist and author. From 1958 until his retirement in 1996, Kössler worked as a research group leader at the Central Institute for Occupational Medicine of the GDR and the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Berlin-Lichtenberg.

Life

Franz Kössler was expelled from his place of birth in the Sudetenland in 1945 after the end of the Second World War . He lost his mother while fleeing in a freight wagon and on foot and arrived in Fläming near Berlin with three younger siblings . There he first worked as a farmhand. Later he was able to attend the agricultural school in the GDR and complete his Abitur at the workers 'and farmers' faculty. He then studied biology in Berlin and Potsdam and received his diploma from Professor Wolfgang Müller-Stoll . He wrote his thesis on the influence of essential oils on the water balance of plants.

In 1958 he became a research group leader in biomedical research at the Central Institute for Occupational Medicine. He completed his doctorate in radiation biology in 1963. Six years later he completed his habilitation with a thesis on luminous bacteria and received the facultas docendi . For his work, he and Gustav Caffier received the Johannes Müller Prize from the Society for Experimental Medicine of the GDR.

Kössler gave lectures on environmental biophysics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and in 1984 published a highly acclaimed textbook that was a standard work in the training of biophysicists for many years. Kössler gave about 135 scientific lectures in 19 countries and 51 cities.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall he was working group leader at the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health from 1990 . Musculoskeletal disorders were his new field of work.

In 1996 he retired and has worked as a reviewer ever since. In his retirement, Kössler published a number of historical books, including Life Pictures , an extensive compendium of personalities from formerly German-speaking areas.

In honor of the botanist Franz Kössler, a plant of the genus Suessenguthia Acanthaceae Suessenguthia koessleri was named.

Franz Kössler has been married since 1956 and has three children.

Publications

• Investigations into the influence of essential oils on water absorption and water release by rooted and cut plants. Berlin, Humboldt University, Math.-Naturwiss. Fac., Diploma thesis 1958, 98 pp.
• Breathing and photosynthesis of Chlorella under gamma irradiation. Berlin, Humboldt University, Math.-Naturwiss. Fac. Diss. 1963/64, 76 p. And 21 p. With ill.
• Physiological studies on bioluminescence. Berlin, Humboldt University, Biology Section, Hab.-Schrift 1969, Vol. 1 Text part 220 pp., Vol. 2, 87 illustrations, 90 pp.
• Radiation effects and radiation protection. Ziemsen, Lutherstadt-Wittenberg (Die neue Brehm-Bücherei, 376), 1967, 129 pp., 57 ills.
• Environmental biophysics. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1984, 310 pp., 86 ills.
• Editor with Ekkehard Höxtermann: On the history of botany in Berlin and Potsdam: Change and new beginnings after 1945 , Berlin 1999
• A memorial for Ketzelsdorf - pictures from home and experiences on the paths of a scientist. Verlag NORA ( Book-on-Demand- Verlag), Berlin 2003, 467 pp.
• Eastern European Landscapes - Forays through formerly German-speaking landscapes. Verlag Mein Buch (own costs), Hamburg 2004, 355 pp.
• Landscapes in Eastern Europe. Novum Verlag, Neckenmarkt, Vienna, Munich 2006, 377 pp.
• The descendants of the locator. History and stories from the Schönhengstgau. Gerhard Hess Verlag, Bad Schussenried 2009, 299 pp.
• Lost and new home - paths of a natural scientist. In: JF Huffmann (Ed.): Back then it was, contemporary witnesses tell from their lives. Verlag Frieling , Berlin 2004, 110-120.
• The mother's love monument in Zwittau. In: JF Huffmann (Ed.): Back then it was, contemporary witnesses tell from their lives. Verlag Frieling, Berlin 2006, 121–126.
• Language islands in the Bohemian-Moravian region - memories of the Sudetenland. In: JF Huffmann (Ed.): Back then it was, contemporary witnesses tell from their lives. Verlag Frieling, Berlin 2008, 192–196.
• German-Russian Encounters - Little Stories from the Years between 1940 and 1990. In: JF Huffmann (Ed.): Back then it was, contemporary witnesses tell from their lives. Verlag Frieling, Berlin 2010, 121–125.
• Made his institute flourish. The botanist Wolfgang R. Müller-Stoll would have been 100 years old in 2009. Portal - The Potsdam University Newspaper, May 2009.
• Life pictures. Personalities from formerly German-speaking areas in Europe. East European Center Berlin-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3942437233 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_genus=suessenguthia

Web links

• List of lectures at the Humboldt University of Berlin
• On the history of botany (HU Berlin)
• Publications, Humboldt University Berlin