Bernhard Möllers

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Bernhard Möllers (born January 26, 1878 in Diedenhofen , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , † May 1, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Diedenhofen, Möllers studied from 1896 to 1901 at the Kaiser Wilhelms Academy for advanced military medical training in Berlin. He became a member of the Pépinière Corps Suevo-Borussia (1897) and Saxonia (1907). In 1902 he was approved and awarded a Dr. med. PhD.

He then served in the Prussian Army for 17 years as an active medical officer , first as an assistant doctor in Saarburg , then from 1904 with the 2nd Guard Uhlan Regiment in Berlin. Promoted to senior physician in 1905 , he was assigned to the Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases in 1908 . There he was Robert Koch's last personal assistant . Promoted to medical officer in 1910 and assigned to the grenadier regiment "King Friedrich the Great" (3rd East Prussian) No. 4 in Rastenburg (East Prussia), he remained posted to the Institute for Infectious Diseases even after Koch's death. He wrote more than 200 publications and ten major handbook articles, mostly on tuberculosis , influenza and other infectious diseases . In 1913 he was awarded the title of professor. At the same time he was transferred to the Aviation Battalion No. 4 in Strasbourg.

As a hygienist of the XV. Army Corps , he completed his habilitation in December 1915 with Paul Uhlenhuth for hygiene. In the First World War he was last used in the Romanian theater of war. After the loss of Alsace-Lorraine and Strasbourg, he was the in October 1919 Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin umhabilitiert . He retired from active military service in November and went - as many former Militärhygieniker - for Reichsgesundheitsamt over, first as a Government , since April 1920 as a senior civil servant .

Since Germany joined the League of Nations in 1926, he has provided reports for the League of Nations International Health Yearbook almost annually . He took over the editing of the Zentralblatt for the entire hygiene (1929) and the Reichsgesundheitsblatt (1932). During the National Socialist era he often represented Hans Reiter .

Publications

  • with Martin Kirchner : On the Tuberculosis Act. 1921.
  • with Otto von Schjerning (Ed.): Handbook of medical experiences in the world war.
  • The flu with special consideration of the great world epidemic of 1918. Urban & Schwarzenberg 1918.
  • The tubercle bacilli , in: Kolle-Kraus-Uhlenhuth: Handbook of pathogenic microorganisms. V, 2, 1928.
  • Contributions for: Anton Waldmann and Wilhelm Hoffmann: Textbook of military hygiene. 1936.
  • Robert Koch, personality and life's work 1843–1910. 1944, published posthumously by Schmorl & von Seefeld Nachf., Hannover 1950.

editor

  • Health care and welfare in the German Reich. 1923
  • with Hans Reiter: Flügge's outline of hygiene. 1940, GoogleBooks
  • with Hans Reiter (Ed.) with the collaboration of Wilhelm Hallbauer: Collection of German Health Laws .
    • Hereditary and racial maintenance. Wordel, Leipzig 1940.
    • Health administration of the Greater German Reich. Wordel, Leipzig 1942.
    • Prevention and control of communicable diseases in the Greater German Reich. Wordel, Leipzig 1944.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 63/66; 61/302
  2. ↑ Dissertation: On the importance of Morel-Lavallée's Décollement Traumatique in peace and war surgery .
  3. ↑ Fortress Aviators
  4. ^ Habilitation thesis: The type of tubercle bacilli in human tuberculosis.
personal data
SURNAME Möllers, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical officer, bacteriologist and hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Diedenhofen , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1945
Place of death Berlin