Friedrich Loeffler (medic, 1815)

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Gottfried Friedrich Franz Loeffler

Gottfried Friedrich Franz Loeffler (born  November 1, 1815 in Stendal , †  February 22, 1874 in Berlin ) was a military doctor in the service of the Prussian army , in whose medical and training system he held high-ranking positions. He worked as an army doctor in the 1st and later the 2nd Prussian Army as well as a sub-director of the military medical training institutes in Berlin and as a professor of war medicine. In 1864 he signed the first Geneva Convention for the Kingdom of Prussia . His son was the microbiologist and hygienist Friedrich Loeffler .

Life

Gottfried Friedrich Franz Loeffler was born in Stendal in 1815 and, after graduating from high school in his hometown, completed medical training at the medical and surgical Friedrich Wilhelm Institute in Berlin from 1833 . He entered the army as a sub-surgeon in April 1837 and became a doctor in September of that year . In 1843 he was promoted to retirement doctor and four years later to medical officer. After his appointment as regimental physician in 1849, he was stationed in Frankfurt (Oder) until 1860 , in the same year he was appointed corps general physician and was transferred to Posen, and in 1861 to Magdeburg with the same rank . His son Friedrich was born in Frankfurt an der Oder in 1852, who later became famous as a microbiologist and hygienist. His grandson was the orthopedist Friedrich Loeffler .

In October 1863, Gottfried Friedrich Franz Loeffler was a member of the Prussian delegation to the international conference in Geneva , at which measures to improve the care of the wounded during the war were negotiated. During this conference, with the support of the Swiss doctor Louis Appia , he emphasized the need to introduce an unmistakable symbol to identify doctors, paramedics and hospitals in the field , as he did three years earlier in the Preussische Militärärztliche Zeitung published from 1860 to 1862 . Based on a proposal by the Swiss General Guillaume-Henri Dufour, this idea led to the introduction of the Red Cross as a protective symbol . During the diplomatic conference, which was also held in Geneva in August of the following year, he signed the first Geneva Convention on behalf of the Kingdom of Prussia "on the alleviation of the plight of military personnel wounded in the field service". In the following years he advocated the founding and expansion of voluntary aid societies , as proposed in the resolutions of the conference of 1863, and also took part in the 1868 conference at which the amendments to the Convention of 1864, which were not implemented later, were drawn up were.

During the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, Gottfried Friedrich Franz Loeffler was an army doctor in the 1st Prussian Army. A year later, in March, he was appointed sub-director of the military medical training institutes in Berlin, where he also became professor of war medicine in October. Based on his experiences from the war of 1866, he published the work “The Prussian Military Sanitary System and its Reform after the War Experience 1866” in two parts in 1868 and 1869. In the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871 he worked as an army doctor in the 2nd Prussian Army. From 1867 until his death he was chairman of the Berlin Military Medical Society. He died in Berlin in 1874.

Works

  • Principles and rules for the treatment of gunshot wounds in war. A contribution to readiness for war. Berlin 1859
  • General report on the health service in the campaign against Denmark in 1864. Berlin 1867 (only first part published)
  • The Prussian military medical system and its reform after the war experience in 1866. Berlin 1868/1869. GoogleBooks

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  1. ↑ Andreas H. Mahnken : The "Berlin Military Medical Society". In: Würzburger medical history reports 17, 1998, pp. 439–448; here: p. 440.
personal data
SURNAME Loeffler, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loeffler, Gottfried Friedrich Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian military doctor, signatory of the Geneva Convention (1864)
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Stendal
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1874
Place of death Berlin