Leo Koslowski

Leo Koslowski (born November 29, 1921 in Liebstadt , East Prussia , † October 13, 2007 in Tübingen ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

As the son of a country doctor, Koslowski studied medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg . As a member of the Luftwaffe (Wehrmacht) he was one of the 18 Königsberg medical students who founded the secret association Daidalia on December 15, 1941 at the suggestion of Fritz Ranzi . In 1942 she joined the “Hermann von Salza” comradeship , which was formed by the old men of the Königsberg fraternity in Gothia . In 1949 Koslowski helped this union with its reconstitution in Göttingen. After completing his studies, he worked as an assistant doctor in the pathology department of the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he met his wife Gisela Nussbaum. During the Second World War he was an assistant doctor on the war front . After the war he worked from 1946 to 1948 as an assistant doctor to Eduard Borchers in the Luisenhospital Aachen before he went to Hermann Krauss for further surgical training at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . With him he completed his habilitation in 1958 on burns . As the successor to Fritz Kümmerle , he became first senior physician. The burn center of the professional association accident clinic in Ludwigshafen was created according to his concept . In 1968 he followed the call of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . He initiated the establishment of the specialist departments for neurosurgery , cardiac surgery , thoracic surgery , vascular surgery , urology , pediatric surgery and transplantation .

He was involved in disaster control and in the protection commission at the Federal Ministry of the Interior . Koslowski resisted a health system that, with its constraints and tightening of working hours, leaves doctors less and less leeway: "We don't treat customers, we treat patients."

Since 1987, professor emeritus , he devoted himself to his East Prussian countryman Johann Gottfried Herder . With rare clarity and sharpness, he criticized the ambiguous conservatism of the student associations and the contemporary opportunism of the professors .

The philosopher and economist Peter Koslowski was his son.

Burn disease internship . Stuttgart 1960. GoogleBooks
with Horst Hamelmann: 50 years of the Tübingen University Hospital . Schattauer, Stuttgart New York 1986. ISBN 3-7945-1161-1 . GoogleBooks
The operation. A guide for patients; Diagnosis, briefing, preparations in the hospital, the day of the operation, the days after, frequent operations . Piper 1989. GoogleBooks
Maxims in medicine . Stuttgart 1992. GoogleBooks
with Theo Junginger and Karl-August Bushe : Die Chirurgie , 1999
Schools of surgeons. 25 years of experienced surgery. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2001.

Honorary member of the Königsberg fraternity Gothia
Vice President of the DRF Air Rescue
Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (May 13, 1977)
President of the German Society for Surgery (1984)
Federal Cross of Merit (May 14, 1982)
Wilhelm Griesinger Medal from the District Medical Association of South Württemberg (2000)
Festive colloquium of the Medical Faculty of Tübingen on the 85th birthday

↑ Andreas Mildahn (†): The Konigsberg fraternities . Once and Now, Vol. 62 (2017)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Bernd Domres, Hans Helmut Gruenagel: Promoter of specialization and guardian of the common ethical concern in operative medicine. On the death of our honorary member of the DGKM eV Prof. Dr. Leo Koslowski . Disaster Medicine 1/2008, p. 16
↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 315.
↑ ^a ^b Obituary Deutsches Ärzteblatt
^ L. Koslowski: Corporation and University . The East Prussian family of doctors, Advent newsletter 1963

personal data
SURNAME	Koslowski, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 29, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH	Liebstadt , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	October 13, 2007
Place of death	Tübingen