Hans J. Fuchs

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Hans Jacobus Fuchs (* 1897 ; † after 1935) was a German biochemist.

Life

From 1928 to 1930 Fuchs was an assistant at the bacteriological department of August von Wassermann's institute in Berlin. In 1931 he moved to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Hygiene and Immunity Research in Berlin as an assistant .

From 1931 to 1935 Fuchs was a researcher at the Institute for Veterinary Physiology at Berlin University. Around 1933 Fuchs developed a test to detect cancer. Fuchs and his colleague H. Kowarzyk also caused a sensation in the international press by injecting the butt of cancer patients themselves.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Fuchs was politically marginalized in Germany because of his - according to National Socialist definition - Jewish descent: in 1933, with the help of the Swiss Maxim Bing, he attempted to get to the United States on a research grant. In 1935 he finally emigrated to Great Britain. There he got a position as a researcher at the London Hospital Medical School.

At the end of the 1930s, Fuchs was classified as an important target by the police forces of National Socialist Germany. In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus considered particularly dangerous or important, which is why they would be removed from the occupation troops in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Subsequent SS special commands were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

Fuchs' areas of expertise were physiological chemistry, blood coagulation and the microchemistry of blood.

Fonts

  • On the formation of specific proteolytic ferments in serum and their relationship to anaphylaxis and immunity. Dissertation. Wroclaw 1923.
  • Via the coagulin of the muscle. In: Journal of Experimental Medicine. 68, 1929, pp. 245-257.
  • Tumor Immunity. In: Journal of Immunology Research and Experimental Therapy. Volume 80, 1933, pp. 375ff.
  • About tumor immunity. In: Clinical weekly. 13, pp. 292-294, doi : 10.1007 / BF02156920 .

literature

  • Displaced Germans Scholars. A Guide to Academics in Peril in Nazi Germany during the 1930s (= Studies in Judaica and the Holocaust. Volume 7). 1993, p. 59.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scientific American. 1933, p. 185 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette: Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television. P. 106f.
  3. ^ Entry on Fuchs on the special wanted list GB , reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London.
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Hans J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs, Hans Jacobus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
DATE OF DEATH after 1935