Otto Loos

Otto Loos (born February 16, 1871 in Neuenbürg , † April 1, 1936 in Schönberg (Seelbach) ) was a German dentist and university professor.

Life

After graduating from the Karl-Gymnasium in Stuttgart, Otto Loos completed a medical degree at the University of Berlin and at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for military medical education . In 1891 he became active in the Pépinière-Corps Suevo-Borussia. Approved in 1896 , he began the career of a medical officer and initially rose to the position of regimental doctor of the 2nd Upper Alsatian Field Artillery Regiment No. 51 of the 30th Division (German Empire) in Strasbourg. He received his license to practice medicine in 1906 and set up the first military dental department in Strasbourg. In 1909 he completed his habilitation at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität for dentistry. In 1914 he was offered an appointment at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From 1914 to 1915 he was chief physician of the field hospital 3 of the XV. Army Corps . He then took over the management of the Dental University Institute Carolinum and its surgical department in Frankfurt as well as the hospital for jaw injuries in Frankfurt. Most recently he had the rank of senior physician .

In 1919 Loos was appointed associate professor and in 1920 full professor of dentistry at the University of Frankfurt. In 1924 he was elected chairman of the Frankfurt Dental Association . In 1926 he took over the chairmanship of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Paradentose (ARPA) and in 1928 the German Society for Dental Anatomy and Pathology . As an employee, Loos was involved in the lexicon of the entire therapy . In 1931 he was elected chairman of the dental lecturers' association. In March 1933 he was appointed Reichsdozentenführer . His “militant and aggressively anti-democratic attitude” was already known beforehand. As a Reichsdozentenführer he worked out a draft of a study reform and new examination regulations, which, according to his own statement, should transfer "discipline and order of the SA service to the study".

He was retired on March 31, 1936. The focus of his scientific work was dental surgery, radiology and periodontosis .

Awards

Iron Cross 2nd class
Red Cross Medal (Prussia) 3rd and 2nd class
China commemorative coin
Karl Olga Medal
Appointment as honorary president of the international paradontosis association ARPA international
The State Dental Association of Hesse awarded the Otto Loos Prize and the Otto Loos Medal from 1967 to 1989 .

Fonts

Hypnotism and suggestion in a judicial and medical light. C. Vogt, Berlin 1894 (dissertation, University of Berlin, 1894).
with Ernst Jessen , Schlaeger: Dental hygiene in school and army. Heitz, Strasbourg 1904.
On the causes of so-called lengthening of teeth in the absence of antagonists: a histological study. Heitz, Strasbourg 1909.
Look around and look around on dental education. Meusser, Berlin 1928.
with Gerhard Gabriel: X-ray diagnostics and therapy in dentistry. Thieme, Leipzig 1931.

literature

Festschrift on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Prof. Dr. O. Loos (= quarterly journal for dentistry. Volume 47 (1931), special issue). Meusser, Berlin 1931.
Loos, Otto. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1152.
Simona Maftei-Kick, Thomas Kick: The historical career of the Dental University Institute Carolinum from 1960 to 1986 with special consideration of the building development. Frankfurt am Main 2000

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 61 , 262
↑ Walter Marle (Ed.): Lexicon of the entire therapy with diagnostic information. 2 volumes, 4th revised edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1935 ( list of employees ).
↑ ^a ^b Caris-Petra Heidel: The contribution of the dental profession and their professional representatives to the implementation of National Socialist ideology and politics in dentistry . In: Wolfgang Kirchhoff, Caris-Petra Heidel (ed.): "... totally finished with National Socialism?". The never-ending story of dentistry under National Socialism . Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-938304-21-1 , p. 57 .
↑ Thomas Ruzicka et al. (Ed.): Man and medicine in totalitarian and democratic societies: Contributions to a Czech-German conference of the universities in Prague and Düsseldorf. Klartext, Essen 2001, p. 24.

personal data
SURNAME	Loos, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German dentist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 16, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neuenbürg
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 1936
Place of death	Schönberg (Seelbach)

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 61 , 262

[2] Walter Marle (Ed.): Lexicon of the entire therapy with diagnostic information. 2 volumes, 4th revised edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1935 ( list of employees ).

[total-3] Caris-Petra Heidel: The contribution of the dental profession and their professional representatives to the implementation of National Socialist ideology and politics in dentistry . In: Wolfgang Kirchhoff, Caris-Petra Heidel (ed.): "... totally finished with National Socialism?". The never-ending story of dentistry under National Socialism . Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-938304-21-1 , p. 57 .

[4] Thomas Ruzicka et al. (Ed.): Man and medicine in totalitarian and democratic societies: Contributions to a Czech-German conference of the universities in Prague and Düsseldorf. Klartext, Essen 2001, p. 24.