Professor Dr. Dieter Soyka * Berlin, November 9, 1929 - April 14, 2012, Kiel +
Prof. Dr. Dieter Soyka died on April 14, 2012 in Kiel at the age of 82. Through his unparalleled work as a neurologist, pain therapist, scientist, teacher and author, his life was a blessing for medicine worldwide. Prof. Soyka has taken a leading role in shaping and shaping today's modern, coordinated care landscapes in neurology and in particular in special pain therapy. In 1972, Prof. Soyka was appointed to the newly created chair of neurology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. From the very beginning, Prof. Soyka was concerned with improving the care of the major common diseases in neurology, cerebrovascular diseases and in particular migraines and headache disorders. The positions and honors that Prof. Soyka received nationally and internationally testify to his unparalleled art of bringing people together, amalgamating their ideas and using creativity to create innovative new structures.
He founded, among others, the German Migraine and Headache Society, the International Headache Society, the Working Group on Pain in the German Society for Neurology and he was also the founding president of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Pain Therapy. Because of his achievements, he was elected an honorary member of many national and international societies. Patients appreciated and loved Prof. Soyka for his compassionate and successful efforts. In addition to the clinic and science, Prof. Soyka was extremely committed to academic self-administration and teaching. He was dean, vice president and prorector of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. His lectures were legendary and regularly overcrowded. The student council consistently recognized it as the best lecture at Kiel University. The mystery of how a person can do all this remains unsolved. A central source of energy was certainly his wife, who actively supported him. But the gratitude of the patients was also motivation to fan the flames and continue to forge the iron. As a scientist and doctor, Prof. Soyka was always a professor in the literal sense. He was a creative advocate for interdisciplinary research and treatment of neurological disorders and pain disorders in order to bring together the knowledge and experiences from all areas of science that enable effective treatment. With his life's work, Prof. Soyka created the foundation for today's pain therapy care on which modern medicine was able to build. Headache medicine has lost its star with Prof. Soyka, a gifted doctor, an innovative scientist, an outstanding teacher, a creative designer, a very fine, polite, intelligent, revered person and a wonderful friend.
