Georg Seiring

Hermann Otto Georg Seiring (born September 21, 1883 in Dresden , † July 4, 1972 in Cologne ) was a German hygienist.

Career

Seiring, son of the umbrella maker Karl Moritz Franz Seiring, completed a commercial apprenticeship after graduating from high school and then studied economics at the University of Leipzig .

He was director of the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden and, after the Second World War, director of the German Health Museum in Cologne.

He is the author of a number of publications on health education.

Honors

1927: Honorary doctorate from the medical faculty of the University of Leipzig
1929: Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Dresden
1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

Karl Ritter von Klimesch (ed.): Heads of politics, economy, art and science. Naumann, Augsburg 1953.
Christian Sammer: “The goal is a healthy life!” The links between the German Health Museum in Cologne (DGM) and the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden (DHM) in the 1950s . In: Detlev Brunner; Udo Grashoff; Andreas Kötzing (Ed.): Asymmetrically intertwined? New research on Germany's post-war history . Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2013, pp. 133–147.

Individual evidence

↑ Birth register StA Dresden I, No. 1627/1883
↑ Death register StA Cologne-West, No. 2090/1972
^ ^A ^b Funke, Ulf-Norbert .: Life and work of Karl August Lingner. Lingner's path from clerk to large industrialist . Diplomica-Verl, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8428-7771-9 , pp. 22 .

personal data
SURNAME	Seiring, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 21, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	4th July 1972
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Birth register StA Dresden I, No. 1627/1883

[2] Death register StA Cologne-West, No. 2090/1972

[:0-3] A ^b Funke, Ulf-Norbert .: Life and work of Karl August Lingner. Lingner's path from clerk to large industrialist . Diplomica-Verl, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8428-7771-9 , pp. 22 .