Hans Wolfgang Kölmel

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Hans Wolfgang Kölmel (born June 6, 1944 in Forbach (Baden) ) is a German neurologist.

Life

Kölmel, the son of a doctor, grew up with his 4 brothers in a village in Baden. He graduated from the Ludwig-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Rastatt. After completing his medical studies in Heidelberg, Göttingen and Munich, he worked as an assistant doctor at the Clinic for Neurology at Heidelberg University under Heinz Gänshirt. From there he followed Dieter Janz to the Neurological Clinic of the Charlottenburg Clinic of the Free University.

His scientific focus was liquor diagnostics and the visual system. After his appointment as senior physician and his habilitation, for which he was awarded the Heinrich Pette Prize of the German Neurological Society in 1982, he received a C2 professorship at the neurological clinic of the Rudolf Virchow Clinic of the Free University of Berlin.

From 1991 to 92, Kölmel was acting director of the neurological clinic at the Charité of the Humboldt University in Berlin. He summarized his experience in the book “Charité 91 - Steps into a New Era”. From 1993 until his retirement in 2009 he was chief physician at the neurological clinic at the Medical University of Erfurt, later at the Erfurt Clinic. In 2010 he was awarded the Romberg Glass for his services to German neurology.

Kölmel is married and has four children.

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. cerebrospinal fluid . Springer Verlag website. Retrieved December 23, 2014.