Franz Bumm
Franz Bumm (born March 7, 1861 in Würzburg , † August 13, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and President of the Reich Health Office in Berlin.
Life
Born as the son of a deaf and dumb teacher, Franz Bumm studied law in Würzburg after attending the Würzburg high school . During his studies in 1880 he became a member of the Adelphia Würzburg fraternity . After completing his studies, he became a District Office Assessor and in 1890 an Assessor in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior. Franz Bumm was transferred to the Prussian Reich Office of the Interior in 1892 and was entrusted with the area of “public health”. In 1898 he became a lecturing council and in 1902 a secret upper government councilor.
From 1905 to 1918 he was President of the Imperial Health Office and from 1918 to 1926 President of the Reich Health Office in Berlin. During his tenure he supported the research work of Robert Koch and Emil von Behring . In 1909 he became a real secret councilor. He was also involved as chairman of the board of trustees of the St. Hedwig Hospital in Berlin.
Bumm is buried in the old cathedral cemetery of St. Hedwig's parish . He was the younger brother of the gynecologist Ernst Bumm (1858-1925) and the psychiatrist Anton Bumm (1849-1903). Another brother was Karl von Bumm (1851-1909).
Honors
- On June 20, 1912 he received the 6th honorary doctorate from the University of Veterinary Medicine Berlin under the rectorate of Eberlein . He was also awarded several honorary doctorates in medicine (Universities of Würzburg and Leipzig).
- He was the holder of ten medals, including:
- Order of the Red Eagle II class with oak leaves
- Royal Crown Order II class
- Iron cross on a white ribbon
- Red Cross Medal II class
- Order of Merit of Saint Michael II Class
- King Ludwig Cross
- Prince Regent Luitpold Medal II class with the crown
- Albrechts-Order , Commander 1st class
- Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit , Commander 1st class
- Grand Commander of the Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig
- In 1996, a memorial plaque with a relief portrait of Franz Bumm was placed at the entrance to the Joseph House in St. Hedwig Hospital , which no longer exists.
Fonts
- Franz Bumm, Rudolf Abel (Hrsg.): Germany's health conditions under the influence of the world war. (2 volumes), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1928.
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 153-154.
- Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 26 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
Web links
- Veterinary medicine library FU Berlin
- Portrait Franz Bumm 1926
- Portrait Franz Bumm 1917
- Literature by and about Franz Bumm in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Died after Dvorak on August 17, 1942.
- ↑ Hanns Hippius, Hans-Jürgen Möller, Norbert Müller, Gabriele Neundörfer: The Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Munich 1904-2004. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-540-64530-6 , p. 44.
- ↑ a b Erich Bauereisen : Boom, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 16 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Orders and their order according to Handbuch für das Deutsche Reich 1918, p. 146
- ↑ Franz Bumm gedenkenafeln-in-berlin.de, accessed on June 23, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boom, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and President of the Reich Health Office in Berlin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1942 |
| Place of death | Berlin |