Fritz Werner Bach

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Fritz Werner Bach (born February 16, 1887 in Dresden , † December 10, 1948 ) was a German medic . He was director of the State Institute for Hygiene in Bytom in Upper Silesia and most recently director of the State Institute for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases Saarbrücken.

Life

He was the son of the Dresden wholesale merchant Alfred Bach and his wife Doris Elisabeth née Jordan. His ancestors were merchants and clergymen. After attending grammar school in Dresden, Fritz Bach studied at the universities of Leipzig, Freiburg im Breisgau, Greifswald and Munich. Bach took the state examination II in Munich. In 1912 he received his doctorate. med. and in 1914 received a position at the Hygiene Institute in Bonn, where he worked until 1927. In 1920 he qualified as a private lecturer in hygiene and bacteria at the University of Bonn , where he was appointed associate professor in 1924.

In 1927 he became director of a private medical institution in Stade (Hann.), Where he was appointed medical councilor. In 1933 he moved from there as professor and director of the State Hygiene Institute to Bytom in Upper Silesia. In 1938 he moved to Saarland and was appointed director of the State Institute for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases Saarbrücken. A few years later he died in 1948 as a result of a traffic accident that he suffered while on a business trip.

Works (selection)

  • Investigations into food rationing during the war and its physiological-hygienic importance, based on the food supply in Bonn during the period from July 1, 1916 to December 28, 1918 , Munich undated [1921].
  • Guide to the investigation of the parasitic protozoa of the human intestinal canal , Jena 1929.
  • (Co-author): About a dysentery epidemic caused by monkeys , Berlin 1931.
  • (with Johannes Zschucke): The microscopic diagnosis of the most important tropical diseases , Leverkuse a. Rh. 1931.

family

Fritz Bach had been married to Susanne Elisabeth Martha, born Grimm, daughter of the secret senior building officer Hans Wilhelm Oskar Grimm, since March 26, 1915. The children Walther (* 1916), Veronika (* 1919), Wolfgang (* 1921) and Bernhard Bach (* 1922) emerged from their marriage.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Volume 154, 1949, page III.
personal data
SURNAME Bach, Fritz Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1948