Biography of lothar b kalinowsky

Lothar Kalinowsky was born in Berlin in December 1899, the son of the lawyer Alfred Kalinowsky and the notary Anna Schott, herself the daughter of Jewish parents.

He completed his medical boards in Berlin in 1922. In his letter of application to Karl Bonhoeffer for a junior position written in Breslau in March 1927, Kalinowsky emphasized his training in psychiatric medicine in Hamburg, Vienna and Breslau, particularly his commitment to 'gaining as much organic-neurological knowledge as possible'.

Biography of lothar b kalinowsky

Despite Bonhoeffer's research focus on symptomatic psychoses, Kalinowsky, like many of the other applicants, did not yet possess the experience necessary to fill such a demanding position. And so it was that Kalinowsky, who had just married Hilda Pohl, daughter of a very wealthy banker, in Berlin in 1925, volunteered for an unpaid position at the psychiatric clinic of the Charité under Bonhoeffer's chief resident Hans-Gerhard Creutzfeld.

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