Franz Ballner

Franz Ballner (born December 2, 1870 in Fulnek , † December 13, 1963 in Wald-Michelbach ) was an Austrian doctor, bacteriologist and hygienist .

Life

After attending high school in Opava ( Matura 1890), Franz Ballner began studying medicine at the University of Vienna in the same year , where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1896. During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students from North Moravia ( Sudetia since 1952 ) in the Waidhofen Association .

After completing his service as a volunteer one-year medical stepped Ballner 1897 as a senior physician in the Austria-Hungarian Army with duty station Innsbruck one. After two years of service in the local garrison hospital , he became a troop doctor with the 1st Regiment of the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger . From 1901 to 1910 he was chief physician and teacher of physics , chemistry and health care at the infantry - cadet school in Innsbruck. During this time, alone or with colleagues, he published various studies on bacteriology , hygiene and disinfection . He extensively examined vegetable proteins and developed the method to differentiate them up to very high precision.

At the meeting of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors in Merano in 1906 , Ballner presented a treatment with chlorine gas to obtain sterile drinking water , which was then used worldwide. In 1909 he became a private lecturer and in 1911 an associate professor of hygiene at the University of Innsbruck . During this time he also became a member of the Military Medical Committee in Vienna and a full member of the State Medical Council for Tyrol and Vorarlberg .

In 1910 Ballner was given the job, because of his chemical and bacteriological knowledge, to set up a chemical-bacteriological laboratory in the newly built garrison hospital as a hygienic examination center for the Innsbruck corps command . In addition to fighting infectious diseases in the corps area, the tasks of this laboratory also included chemical and bacteriological water tests in the various garrisons in Tyrol , Salzburg and parts of Upper Austria , but especially in the fortifications in the South Tyrolean Alps on the Italian border.

At the beginning of the First World War , Ballner was only a brief field hospital commander on the Russian front, only to become a hygienic consultant and bacteriological specialist at the 4th Army Command in autumn 1914 because of the occurrence of cholera , typhus , dysentery and typhus . In this function, he ensured that, in addition to the central bacteriological laboratory, such a laboratory was made available to each division, the medical director of which he himself trained. The main task was to carry out vaccinations against typhus and cholera, about which no experience was available to this extent. The typhus epidemics, which were previously unknown there, could be extinguished by completely eliminating the clothes lice . These were disinfection and bathing facilities created. The army doctors not only looked after the troops, but also the civilian population, as the local doctors had left almost everywhere in the country. In 1917 Ballner became hygienic advisor in the Reich Ministry of War in Vienna with responsibility for the whole of Austria-Hungary .

After the end of the war and the collapse of the monarchy , Ballner was laboratory director and hygienist at the Army Command for Slovakia in Pressburg in the service of the Czechoslovak Republic from 1920 to 1933 , where he continued his previous work. In addition, the alternating fever ( malaria ) had spread in the Danube lowlands , which was transmitted by mosquitoes from malaria sufferers. By moving all malaria sufferers to the mosquito-free Tatra areas , there were no new cases.

After reaching the age limit, Ballner resigned as a senior physician in 1933. D. and ao Univ.-Professor a. D. in retirement , which he spent in Troppau . However, when the Second World War broke out in 1939, he was assigned to the state health department in Opava as a compulsory doctor , where he worked until the end of the war in May 1945. In September 1946 he was resettled after suffering a lot and was initially in Württemberg and from 1951 in Wald-Michelbach .

Publications

• Investigations into the aggressin effect of Bacillus pneumoniae Friedländer . Centralblatt for bakt. etc. I. Dept. Originals. Vol. XLII. Book 3, pp. 247-251.
• (with Kurt Ritter von Stockert) Some remarks about dry milk . Journal for Food Inspection and Research A, Volume 22, No. 11, pp. 648-651.
• Experimental studies on the disinfection power of saturated water vapors at different boiling temperatures . Verlag C. Gerold's Sohn, 1902, 16 pages.
• The hygienic assessment of the hanging gas incandescent light . From: Schilling's Journal for gas lighting and related types of lighting, as well as for water supply 1906, Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1906.
• About the disinfection of books, printed matter and the like using moist, hot air . Verlag Deuticke, 1907, 57 pages.
• (with B. Mayrhofer) Bacteriological review of the dental treatment of pulp gangrene . From: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, Vol. 21, No. 17, Braumüller Verlag, Vienna 1908.
• (with Robert Burow) Studies on the biological differentiation of vegetable protein: Attempts to differentiate between legume protein and varieties of one and the same species . Verlag Wagner, Innsbruck 1911.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Digital register of the persons listed for the letter Ba-Be from: Heribert Sturm (editor), Jutta Franke (editor): Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands , Volume I (AH), Munich 1979, ISBN 978-3-486-49491 -4 .
2. ^ ^{A b c d e} Association of German Students "Sudetia" in Vienna . In: Sudetenpost - official organ of the Federal Association of Sudeten German Landsmannschafter Austria , 2nd year, episode 1, January 14, 1956, p. 5.
3. ↑ Erwin Janchen: The methods of biological protein differentiation in their application to the plant systematics . In: Announcements of the Natural Science Association at the University of Vienna - edited by Erwin Janchen , XI. With the participation of the editorial committee . Year 1913, No. 1 and 2, pp. 1–21.