Obituary Prof. Dr. med. Karl Köhle *1938 – †2022

Prof. Dr. med.Karl Köhle, one of the important protagonists of the last decades for a "speaking medicine" and pioneer of modern teaching and training in the field of clinical communication, passed away.Born in Munich in 1938, he spent a large part of his life in the Rhineland, but his love for Upper Bavaria and the region around Lake Starnberg remained throughout his life.After studying medicine and psychology in Hamburg, Munich and Vienna, he began his residency in 1967 in the Department of Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics under the direction of one of the pioneers of psychosomatic medicine in Germany, Prof. Thure von Uexküll, at the Centre for Internal Medicine and Paediatrics at Ulm University.In 1984 he was appointed Medical Director of the Clinic for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Cologne, where he worked until his retirement in 2005.Karl Köhle has had a lasting influence on psychosomatic medicine in Germany through his person and his activities over many years.Numerous innovations in the design of teaching can be traced back to Karl Köhle and his team, which still shape the discussion of communication skills training in Cologne today and at other faculties: as early as the end of the 1/4

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