Josef Koch (doctor, 1933)

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Josef Adolf Michael Koch (born March 19, 1933 in Leinefelde ) is a German oral surgeon , dentist and general practitioner . He completed his habilitation as a student of Wolfgang Rosenthal .

Life

Koch was born the son of a resident dentist and grew up with two brothers and two sisters. During the Second World War , the bombed out maternal relatives from Cologne moved into the parental household. His older brother was the first officer on watch on a submarine at the end of April 1945.

After the state examination in dentistry and his doctorate in 1956 at the University of Leipzig , he worked at the St. Vincenz Hospital in Heiligenstadt (Eichsfeld Klinikum since 2002). During this time he also looked after the St. Johannesstift in Ershausen . After completing his medical studies, he received his doctorate in this field in 1958. He served his compulsory assistantship at the Mühlhausen district hospital .

He initially started training as a gynecologist and obstetrician, but, like his senior physician, refused to perform abortions and then found a training position at the Wolfgang Rosenthal Clinic Thallwitz (closed in 1994) in the field of orthodontics, where he worked until the end of 1973 was active.

In 1963 he made a contribution to the international nomenclature for oral surgery. His professional work was the cleft lip and palate . Until August 1968 he was head of the documentation department, after which he became de jure chief physician of the maxillofacial surgery department under the name of "senior physician of the clinic". In 1971 he received the Rudolf Virchow Prize .

On December 31, 1973, he was terminated without notice by the clinic for political reasons. At the same time he was banned from both the house and the profession. Shortly afterwards, he was expelled from the GDR . Later he founded the competence center for lip, jaw, palate and nose malformations in the DRK children's clinic in Siegen . From 1978 he campaigned for the further development of the (re) habilitation of those affected; initially at the Friedrich Zimmer Hospital in Herborn and the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . In 1981 he founded the Wolfgang Rosenthal Society. In 2011 he wrote the book The "Wolfgang Rosenthal Clinic" Thallwitz 1943-1994 about the Thallwitz Clinic. In 2004 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his many years of work on cleft lip and palate malformations. Today he lives in Holzhausen (Greifenstein) .

Works

  • The "Wolfgang Rosenthal Clinic" Thallwitz 1943-1994. 2011, Leipzig University Press.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CV of Josef Koch ; in: Kerstin Ackermann: The "Wolfgang Rosenthal Clinic" Thallwitz / Saxony in the two German dictatorships (diss.), Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, 2008, p. 89ff.
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Josef Adolf Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oral surgeon, dentist and general practitioner
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Leinefelde