Otto Krosta

Otto Krosta (born May 10, 1844 in Sensburg , † July 7, 1925 in Berlin ) was a German medical officer in the Prussian Army.

Life

Krosta studied medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In November 1863, like his older brother Friedrich Krosta, he became active in the Corps Baltia Königsberg . As a corps boy, he fought ten games. That was an above-average achievement at the time when the determination of the rating had not yet established itself. Honored as a fox major and consenior , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin as an inactive person after completing the physics course . Even before the state examination he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . In 1868 he established himself as a general practitioner in Drebkau . As a medical officer in the Landwehr , he took part in the Franco-German War in 1870/71 . He gave up his medical practice in Niederlausitz in 1878 and became a military doctor at the Friedrich Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. In 1881 he came as a medical officer for the Body Guard Grenadiers Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm III." (1. Brandenburg) no. 8 in Frankfurt (Oder) . In 1886 he was transferred to the non-commissioned officer school in Weißenfels and in the three emperor year to the Danzig Infantry Regiment No. 128 . Since 1890 he was senior staff and regimental doctor in the infantry regiment "Graf Bose" (1st Thuringian) No. 31 in Altona . He was appointed doctor general of the IV Army Corps in Magdeburg . When the Reich government sent an expeditionary force to suppress the Boxer Rebellion , Krosta was appointed head of the medical service. Like his brother, he retired in Berlin. He died at the age of 82.

Awards

War memorial for the campaigns of 1870–71
Iron Cross 2nd class on black and white ribbon from 1870/71
Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with the loop
Commander of the Knightly Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 86/90.
↑ John Koch : The history of the Corps Baltia . Königsberg 1906, p. 44.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51. and The history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. New edition, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Krosta, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medical officer in the Prussian Army
DATE OF BIRTH	May 10, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sensburg
DATE OF DEATH	July 7, 1925
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 86/90.

[2] John Koch : The history of the Corps Baltia . Königsberg 1906, p. 44.

[SS-3] Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51. and The history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. New edition, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6 .