Franz Koelsch
Franz Koelsch (born July 4, 1876 in Eichstätt , † November 30, 1970 in Erlangen ) was a German occupational physician.
Career
Koelsch was born as the son of the doctor Robert Kolesch and his wife Therese, nee Lang. He passed the Abitur at the Kurfürst-Maximilian-Gymnasium in Burghausen and studied medicine in Erlangen, Berlin and Kiel. He received his doctorate in Erlangen in 1900 and worked as a general practitioner in Ebnath from 1901 to 1908. From 1909 he was a state medical doctor in Bavaria. In 1919 he moved to the Bavarian State Ministry for Social Welfare as Ministerialrat and completed his habilitation that same year. After four years of teaching as a private lecturer, he was appointed associate professor for industrial hygiene at the University of Munich in 1923 . From 1925 he was also an honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich . From 1954 he was honorary professor for occupational medicine at the University of Erlangen .
He was a member of the Reich Health Council , the Hygiene Commission of the International Labor Office and the International Committee for Occupational Medicine.
Honors
- 1932: Membership of the Leopoldina
- 1955: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1970: Bavarian State Medal for Social Merit
literature
- Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .
- Heinrich Buess : Koelsch, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 326 ( digitized version ).
- Gine Elsner: State-wide occupational medicine. Franz Xaver Koelsch (1876–1970). Bavarian state trade doctor from the monarchy to the Federal Republic. VSA, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89965-611-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Franz Koelsch at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 5, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koelsch, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German occupational physician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eichstatt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1970 |
| Place of death | gain |