Friedrich Fassbender

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Friedrich Fassbender (born June 6, 1893 in Cologne ; † July 29, 1981 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German medic .

Life

The son of a master baker studied medicine since 1913. The next year he entered the military and was wounded. After his recovery he was able to continue his studies, passed his physics course in 1917 and was appointed assistant doctor. From 1918 he studied economics at the University of Bonn and in Jena . In Jena he was approved in 1920 and Doctor of Medicine doctorate . In 1920/1921 he completed further training at the Social Hygiene Academy in Düsseldorf .

From 1921 Faßbender acted as city doctor , poor doctor and prison doctor in Mülheim an der Ruhr . In the same year he was appointed company doctor at Thyssen . In 1925 he went to Frankfurt-Höchst as a city doctor and welfare doctor . In the following year he also became a column doctor at the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund and sports doctor for the workers' sports cartel. Since these organizations were considered Marxist , he had to give up his job in Höchst. In Berlin he had been a medical officer at the AOK since 1934 and headed the local tuberculosis center there until 1937. From 1934 to 1945 he was also a scientific advisor at Springer Verlag . In Merseburg , he had held the office of state medical officer and counseling doctor for the state and social insurance institution of Saxony-Anhalt since 1937. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP .

In 1946 he became a member of the SED . In 1947 he rose to head of department in the Ministry of Health in Saxony-Anhalt. In 1949 Faßbender was given a teaching position for social hygiene at the University of Halle . In 1953 he was to take up a professorship with a teaching position and was appointed acting head of the Institute for Social Hygiene. In the next few times he received proposals from the Faculty of Medicine to be appointed full professor. Although he had not completed his habilitation , he had published many works, which was accepted as a substitute for a habilitation. In 1955, however, the State Secretariat for Higher and Technical Schools rejected the proposal, on the grounds that Faßbender was not professionally qualified.

The professorship with teaching received Faßbender finally in 1957, but he was already next year at his own request emeritus . In 1963 and 1973 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit. He died in Halle in 1981 at the age of 88.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 84.
  2. ^ New Germany , September 3, 1963, p. 2
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, September 21, 1973, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Fassbender, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fassbender, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1981
Place of death Halle (Saale)