Bruno Harms

Bruno Harms (born March 23, 1890 in Berlin ; † August 1, 1967 there ) was a German hygienist .

Life

Bruno Harms studied biology in Berlin from 1908 to 1912 and received his doctorate with a dissertation on insects. He then studied medicine and received his doctorate with the thesis The causes of staying seated in school children . In 1922 he became a city doctor in Tiergarten. In 1933 he was deposed as head of the Tiergarten health department, the reasons are not known, and he ran a private practice. In 1941 he was called up as a senior staff doctor in the army. After the Second World War he was from July 1946 to December 1948 City Councilor for Health Care in the Magistrate of Berlin. From 1949 to 1953 he was President of the Robert Koch Institute , but resigned prematurely in 1953. In 1965 he received the Great Federal Cross of Merit .

Fonts (selection)

The present and future design of social hospital care , in: Archive for Social Hygiene and Demography 2 (1926) 70–72.
Leonhard Thurneysser in Berlin. Live and act. In: Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , Berlin 1962, pp. 28–49.

literature

Peter Reinicke : Harms, Bruno , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 227f.
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 226.

Individual evidence

↑ Bruno Harms: Investigations on the larva of Ctenocephalus canis curtis . Berlin 1912
^ The estate of Bruno Harms is in the Landesarchiv Berlin.

personal data
SURNAME	Harms, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 23, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 1967
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Bruno Harms: Investigations on the larva of Ctenocephalus canis curtis . Berlin 1912

[2] The estate of Bruno Harms is in the Landesarchiv Berlin.