Otto Konrad Scholl

Otto Konrad Scholl (born June 2, 1888 in Zabern , Alsace , † 1960 ) was a German dermatologist.

Career

Scholl came as the son of the married couple Konrad and Katharina Scholl, b. Plein, in the small Alsatian town of Zabern. He received his school education at the high school in Diedenhofen and passed the final examination there in the summer of 1909. In the autumn of the same year he enrolled as a medical student at the University of Munich . After three semesters, he moved to the University of Freiburg for the summer semester of 1911 . There he passed the preliminary medical examination in March 1912. In the summer semester of 1912 he moved to the University of Strasbourg for one semester, then returned to Munich for one semester and studied the last three clinical semesters in Strasbourg again. He passed the medical examination (Notexamen) on August 2, 1914 and received his license to practice medicine on August 11, 1914. In the autumn of 1915 he did his doctorate under C. Adrian and Alfred Wolff in Strasbourg on the subject of Abortive Forms of Recklinghausen's Disease .

On the day of his medical examination, Scholl joined the 84th Field Artillery Regiment as a war volunteer. On September 23, 1914, he was promoted to junior physician and two days later came into the field with the First Fortress Medical Company. From there he was posted to the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 14 in December 1914. On January 10, 1915, he was transferred to the 5th Battery Res. 10 Foot Artillery Regiment and on June 24, 1915, he was promoted to assistant doctor in the reserve.

He married Mathilde Zerline Nussbaum (1896–1991), who was also from Alsace, daughter of the doctor Moritz Nussbaum and Ida Koppel and sister of the doctor Robert Nussbaum , who was murdered in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After the end of the war he worked at the Berlin Polyclinic in 1919/20, and then at the Clinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases in Munich. In the mid-1920s he came to the Bergmannsheil Hospital in Bochum as a consultant specialist in skin diseases . At this time his son, the future journalist Peter Scholl-Latour (1924-2014), was born.

During the Second World War he was a medical officer in the reserve (most recently senior medical officer ) a. a. works as a senior department doctor at the Braunschweig Air Force Hospital. He wrote numerous specialist publications.

Honors

• July 25, 1915: Iron Cross

Publications (selection)

• About abortive forms of Recklinghausen's disease . Strasbourg 1915. (University dissertation).
• A case of Porokeratosis Mibelli localized on one side. (Univ.-Klin. And Poliklin, Munich.). In: Dermatologische Wochenschrift. Vol. 72, No. 1, Leipzig 1921, pp. 1-4.
• About a case of arthropathic psoriasis. In: Dermatologische Wochenschrift. Volume 81, Leipzig 1926, pp. 1223-1227.
• For the treatment of creeping disease . In: Dermatologische Wochenschrift. Volume 82, Leipzig 192, p. 4676.
• For the treatment of the phageenic chancre . In: Dermatologische Wochenschrift. 112, Leipzig 1941, p. 393.
• Contribution to the knowledge of the prevention and treatment of salvar sand dermatitis . In: Dermatologische Wochenschrift. 113, Leipzig 1941, pp. 944-950.
• About two cases of foot and mouth disease in humans and their treatment with Eleudron. (Sick Department III, Air Force Hospital, Braunschweig). In: Medical Wehrschrift. I, 1943, pp. 71-72.

literature

• Erhard Riecke (Ed.): German Dermatologist Directory: Life and Performance Show . 2nd edition, Barth, Leipzig 1939.

Web links

• Medical career in the German dermatologist calendar from 1929