Hugo Meixner

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Hugo Franz Alfred Meixner (born January 9, 1863 ; † October 5, 1935 ) was a German doctor and head of the medical system in German East Africa .

Life

Meixner studied medicine from 1882 to 1889 at the universities of Berlin , Halle and Rostock . In 1890 he qualified and became a military doctor in the Prussian army . From 1901 he served in the Schutztruppe for German East Africa , in 1903 he became its chief physician and, as medical officer of the government, also head of the medical system in German East Africa. He also headed the Imperial Government Hospital in Dar es Salaam as the successor to Werner Steuber (1901–1905) . His special merits lie in disease control and disease prevention.

Fonts

  • Contributions to the knowledge of leprosy in German East Africa
  • The fight against sleeping sickness , published on the occasion of the German Colonial Congress, 1910
  • Instructions for troop kitchens , on behalf of Stage Inspection 6, 1918

literature

  • Hugo Meixner. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume II, p. 537 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Meixner, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meixner, Hugo Franz Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and head of medical services in German East Africa
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1863
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1935