Franz Klose

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Franz Klose (1968)

Hugo Julius Franz Klose (* July 21, 1887 in Liegnitz ; † January 7, 1978 in Kiel ) was a German hygienist and university professor .

Life

The architect's son attended grammar school in Görlitz and then completed a medical degree at the Universities of Göttingen, Breslau and, most recently, at the Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for military medical education . He completed his studies in 1912 with the medical state examination and was approved in the same year as a Dr. med. PhD . First under doctor and then assistant doctor in the foot artillery regiment "von Dieskau" (Silesian) No. 6 in Neisse , he worked from May 1914 on the Reich Commissioner for Typhus Fighting in Southwest Germany. During the First World War he was senior physician with the advisory hygienist of the 5th Army and headed the hygienic-bacteriological army laboratory. From May 1917 he was researching gas edema diseases at the Berlin Kaiser Wilhelms Academy and developed an antidote.

From August 1919 he was head of the city hospital in Wittenberge , where he also became a paid city councilor and magistrate in February 1923. From 1923 he was city medical advisor and head of the health department in Kiel. After his habilitation in 1935, he taught social hygiene at the University of Kiel , from 1938 as a private lecturer and from 1943 as an associate professor. From 1919 to 1945 he was a medical officer for the Reich Insurance Company .

During the Second World War he was an advisory hygienist at the Deputy General Command of the 3rd Army Corps and in Berlin at Military District Office III, most recently in the rank of Senior Staff Doctor of the Reserve.

From May 1946 he was appointed full professor and director of the Hygiene Institute at the University of Kiel; after the end of the war, he had held these functions on a provisional basis since October 1945. In 1945 he was a member of the German Health Services Advisory Committee , until 1946 the advisory health committee of the British military administration in Bad Oeynhausen and from 1946 the German Advisory Board there . He was entrusted with the management of the State Medical Investigation Office in Kiel and chaired the State Health Advisory Board in Schleswig-Holstein . From the beginning of September 1952 to the end of March 1953 he significantly steered the establishment of the Federal Health Office , of which he was the first president. Then he was in the rank of ministerial director until the end of March 1954 head of the health department in the Federal Ministry of the Interior. He then resumed teaching and was retired in September 1955 in Kiel . From 1954 he was a member of the Federal Health Council, whose deputy chair he took over in 1956. In 1955 he became President of the German Green Cross . In 1955 he chaired the DFG's Commission for Nutritional Research . As a co-founder of the German National Health Care Center , he became its president and finally honorary president in 1964. From 1963 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Medical and Health Service of the Bundeswehr . Since 1913 he was married to Kate Groß.

Klose “has shaped the health care system in the Federal Republic of Germany like no other, at the municipal level, at the state level, at the federal level, in the scientific field, in the armed forces, in independent associations, in the public health service”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ H. Beske. Quoted from Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the Unification of Health Care" of July 3, 1934. Lines and moments of development of the state and municipal health system in Germany , Part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, ISSN 0172 -2131, p. 438
personal data
SURNAME Klose, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klose, Hugo Julius Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1978
Place of death Kiel