Mourning in Dachau for the founder of the Koschade Clinic

Created: 01/10/2022, 06:12 AM

Left a lot of traces in Dachau: Dr.

Eduard Koschade has now died at the age of 88.

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Around 15,000 newborns saw the light of day under his aegis.

As has now become known, the Dachau gynecologist and operator of a clinic for childbirth and gynecology, Dr.

Eduard Koschade, died on New Year's Day at the age of 88.

Dachau - Dr. Eduard Koschade has set milestones in Dachau - as a gynecologist and operator of his private clinic for childbirth and gynecology in the old town of Dachau. By 1981, the doctor expanded the building of the Koschade Clinic with its distinctive red clinker bricks into what was then the most modern hospital of its kind in all of southern Germany. In 1996 the house became the property of the district and the Amperklinik, with the entire staff being taken over. In 2001, however, it was over. Gynecology and obstetrics continued at the Amperklinik.

After the building had been vacant for a long time after 2001, an investor bought the former Koschade Clinic in 2011 to convert it.

Condominiums should be built.

A long squabble with the city began.

The building changed hands several times.

Today, in the place of the former clinic, there is a terrace building with luxury apartments.

He actually wanted to study chemistry

Eduard Koschade actually wanted to study chemistry, but as a communicative person he preferred to deal with people.

He chose medicine - and the people.

His studies were followed by training at the Munich University Clinic on Maistraße.

He worked at the Hanover Hospital for four years before returning to Maistraße for specialist training.

As a senior physician at the Landshut district hospital, in addition to running the clinic in the gynecological outpatient clinic, he was given the tools to become a doctor in dealing with patients.

In 1965 Koschade opened his gynecological practice in Mittermayerstraße - at that time he was the first and only gynecologist in Dachau, apart from his father Robert Koschade.  

Father Koschade initially ran a maternity hospital from 1928 to 1934.

It reopened in 1949 after the war.

In 1965 Robert Koschade finally handed over the 18-bed house to his eldest son Eduard.

For the successor, the clinic was more than half the life.

Clever negotiations with the banks

“It was a family business,” said Eduard Koschade during an interview with the Dachauer Nachrichten on his 80th birthday in 2013. But he also admitted: “That was, God knows, not easy.

At that time there was still no hospital financing law, and with the district clinic as a competitor, a lot of negotiating skills were required when designing loans. "

In the Koschade Clinic, the freelance specialist colleagues Dr.

Horst-Dieter Moeller and Dr.

Kurt Tschirntsch with Eduard Koschade.

Koschade's sister Rosemarie Stavrou-Koschade worked as an anesthetist in the team.

"It was not easy for me to hand over this family work," said Koschade on his 80th birthday.

But it was the command of reason: Neither son Christian nor daughter Katja - both from their first marriage to his wife Frauke, who died in 2008 - saw their future in medicine.

In retirement, Eduard Koschade worked as an accomplished builder and renovator of a dilapidated real estate project in Munich.

He was also an avid ocean sailor.

And he enjoyed life by the side of his second wife Monika, whom he married in 2007.

In addition to her and his sister Rosemarie, daughter Katja and two granddaughters Tessa and Hannah mourn.

Son Christian died in 2018 after a long illness.

The urn interment will take place in the immediate family.

A memorial service will follow at a later date.

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