Hans Friedrich-Freksa

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Hans Florian Friedrich-Freksa (born February 23, 1906 in Munich ; † October 2, 1973 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German biologist , biochemist and virologist .

Life

Hans Friedrich-Freksa was the son of the author Friedrich Freksa and the writer Margarete Beutler .

Hans Friedrich-Freksa studied at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and was awarded a doctorate in 1931 in Tübingen. rer. nat. PhD .

After a period of work at the zoological institutes of the Universities of Tübingen and Frankfurt am Main, he worked from 1937 to 1954 as a research assistant and department head for Nobel Prize winner Adolf Butenandt at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and later the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry .

Hans Friedrich-Freksa completed his habilitation in 1946 at the University of Tübingen for the subjects of zoology and biophysics.

In 1946 he was co-founder with Alfred Klemm and for many years editor of the Zeitschrift für Naturforschung .

In 1954 he became department director for physical biology at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research, today's Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology .

In addition to general and molecular biology, his scientific interests were particularly dedicated to specific problems in immunology and above all cancerogenesis. Hans Friedrich-Freksa provided molecular biology research in Germany with significant impulses after the Second World War. As early as the beginning of the 1940s, he expressed thoughts ahead of later developments regarding the identical reduplication of nucleoproteins, and with his work on the tobacco mosaic virus , he contributed to the emerging importance of this field of research.

In 1957 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina and in 1965 a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

In 1971, Friedrich Bonhoeffer succeeded him as department director for physical biology at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research .

Hans Friedrich-Freksa was buried on October 8, 1973 in the Tübingen forest cemetery.

literature

  • Manfred Fedor Rajewsky: H. Friedrich-Freksa for his 65th birthday. In: Journal of Nature Research B . 26, 1971, p. 178a ( online ).
  • Alfred Klemm: On the death of Hans Friedrich-Freksa . In: Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung, C 28, 9-10, 1973, pp. 636-637 digitized

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personal data
SURNAME Friedrich-Freksa, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedrich-Freksa, Hans Florian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist, biochemist and virologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1973
Place of death Bad Nauheim