Fritz Drahn

Fritz Drahn (born June 23, 1888 in Braunschweig ; † after 1959) was a German veterinarian and university professor.

Life

Born the son of a Hanoverian businessman, Fritz Drahn studied at the Hanover Veterinary University from the summer semester of 1907 and became a member of the Corps Normannia Hanover . In February 1911 he received his veterinary license . He then worked in Delmenhorst as an assistant to Friedrich Lindhorst . In 1912 he was awarded a Dr. med. vet. PhD.

In 1914 he moved to the Berlin Veterinary University as an assistant . He took part in the First World War as a reserve veterinarian and was awarded the Iron Cross and the Brunswick Cross of Merit. In 1921 he became senior assistant and prosector at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Berlin, where he qualified as a Dr. med. vet. habil. and became a private lecturer in embryology. In 1922 the Berlin Veterinary University appointed him an associate professor. In 1928 he passed the district veterinary exam in Berlin and became a veterinary councilor for the city and district of Görlitz . In the appointment process of the professor of anatomy and histology at the University of Veterinary Medicine Berlin as successor to the late Heinrich Bittner , he was favored by Reinhold Schmaltz , but was defeated by Wilhelm Krüger , who later became the rector of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In 1950 he became a district veterinarian in Wandlitz in the Niederbarnim district and in 1954 in Bad Freienwalde .

Drahn worked in the field of domestic animal anatomy. Together with Friedrich Lindhorst , he wrote the standard work on veterinary medicine internship in veterinary obstetrics .

Fonts

• Which anatomical changes occur in the sexual organs of the female domestic mammals, especially the bitch, at the time of oestrus? , 1911
• The anatomical changes in the sexual apparatus of our domestic animals during oestrus with special consideration of the bitch , 1912
• Internship in veterinary obstetrics , 1918 (together with Friedrich Lindhorst )
• Limb development and polydactyly in horses , 1927
• Pet birth: veterinary obstetric internship , 1958 (together with Heinz Kliemann)

literature

• Fritz Riggert, Otto Gervesmann: History of the Corps Normannia Hannover, 1859, March 15, 1959, 1959, p. 141.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ines Schulze: The veterinary training center Berlin between 1933 and 1945 , 2007, pp. 88–89 ( digitized version )

Remarks

1. ↑ On May 25, 1935, the tape was withdrawn from him. The reason is unclear.