Rudolf Koch (doctor)

Rudolf Koch (born April 2, 1909 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ; † June 2, 1963 in Coburg ) was a German forensic doctor .

Life

Rudolf Koch was the son of cancer researcher Josef Koch . He studied medicine in Berlin, Würzburg and Vienna. He then worked at various clinics in Berlin and specialized in forensic medicine in Berlin with Victor Müller-Heß and in Münster with Heinrich Többen . In the Weimar Republic he was a member of the Center Party . During the National Socialist era , Koch was a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare Association (NSV) , the National Socialist Aviator Corps and the National Socialist German Medical Association .

In 1936 he received his doctorate at the University of Münster with the thesis Meningeal Cysts , Their Form and Origin . In 1940 he was in Münster with the work over sex offender habilitation and 1942 appointed lecturer there. Military service, at times as a war pathologist, followed from 1943 to 1945. He was in American captivity until the end of 1945.

After that, Koch initially represented the chair of his former teacher Heinrich Többen, who had fallen ill, before he was appointed to the chair of forensic medicine at the University of Halle in 1947 , initially as an associate professor and since 1950 he was a full professor there. He headed the institute there until December 1958, when he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany, where from April 1959 until his death he was a district court doctor and senior government medical advisor in Coburg.

literature

• Berthold Mueller : Obituary for Rudolf Koch. In: German journal for judicial medicine 55, 1964, pp. 31–32.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Koch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Rudolf Koch in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 173.