Ludwig Popp

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Ludwig Popp (born July 3, 1911 in Kulmbach , Upper Franconia ; † May 24, 1993 in Bimöhlen , Holstein ) was a German bacteriologist.

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Bayreuth, Ludwig Popp studied medicine at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg from the summer semester of 1930 , later in Munich , Heidelberg , Brno , Düsseldorf and finally again in Würzburg. He became a member of the Corps Rhenania Würzburg (1930) and the Corps Marchia Brno (1933). In November 1935 he passed the medical state examination . After receiving his doctorate in 1936, he received his license to practice medicine in 1937 .

He initially represented country doctors in Upper Franconia, but then turned to training in bacteriology and hygiene at the St. Georg Hospital in Hamburg. At the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted into the air force , first as an aviator, then briefly as a troop doctor . He was assigned to the Department of Bacteriology and Serology at the UKE in Hamburg and, in 1942, to the Hygiene Institute of the University of Würzburg for two years. In 1944 he was appointed deputy head of the bacteriological and hygienic investigation center of the Air Force in Paris and was then employed as head of Luftgaus 5 in western France ( Arras ), Essen and until the end of the war in Bad Harzburg .

After the end of the war he went to the Braunschweig Medical Examination Office as a senior scientific assistant. In 1948 he became its acting director. In 1950 he was appointed head of this institute, first as medical councilor and finally as medical director. In 1949 he was appointed lecturer and in 1960 honorary professor for bacteriology and hygiene at the Technical University of Braunschweig . In 1975 he retired. In addition to these activities, he founded an MTA school, which he still led after his retirement, as he continued to give lectures at the Technical University of Braunschweig.

Ludwig Popp wrote about one hundred scientific medical papers on bacteriology , water hygiene, salmonella infections and bovine tuberculosis as well as their transmission to humans, which were published in the most important national and international journals.

Ludwig Popp was a recognized art collector and member of scientific and cultural associations such as the Kestner Society in Hanover, the Raabe Society in Braunschweig, the Friends of Plassenburg or the honest clothing sellers in Braunschweig . After retiring, he and his wife Cecilie devoted themselves to numerous historical studies, primarily on the history of his hometown Kulmbach.

Honors

  • City Medal of the City of Kulmbach (1978)
  • Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit (1980)
  • Plaque of honor from the Lower Saxony Medical Association (1988)

literature

  • Kurt Stucke: In memoriam Ludwig Popp. Trier 1994 in: Märkerbrief No. 75.
  • Norbert Koniakowsky, Wolf Engert , Hadwin Elstner: Corps Marchia Brünn 1865–1995 , Trier 1995.

Fonts

  • On the patentex treatment of female gonorrhea. Würzburg 1936, DNB 571482724 .
  • A field fever epidemic in pea pickers, new findings on the field fever epidemiology. in: Medical Microbiology and Immunology. Vol. 131, No. 6, 1950.
  • About the causes of the coli content of drinking milk. Nuremberg 1951, DNB 453821871 .
  • Quantitative-bacteriological basics of the chlorination of drinking water. Braunschweig 1951.
  • Hygiene and sewage irrigation: a field report. Hiltrup b. Münster (Westphalia) 1956, DNB 364480319 .
  • with Ingrid Strauss: The immunological picture of renal tuberculosis, The immunological aspect of renal tuberculosis. in: Research in Experimental Medicine. 155 (2), 1971.
  • with Ernst Strassner: The painter and graphic artist Christian Strassburger: 1908–1945. Kulmbach 1972, DNB 730453561 .
  • History of the old Kulmbach pharmacies. Kulmbach 1977, DNB 780601874 .
  • The Reformation in Kulmbach and its prehistory. Kulmbach 1978, DNB 790487519 .
  • The story of the Gutteter from Kulmbach. Kulmbach 1984, DNB 850175585 .
  • New insights into the biography of Hans von Kulmbach, called Hans Suess. Kulmbach 1985, DNB 860927628 .
  • The human tuberculin . Braunschweig 1988, DNB 880498439 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 143/578; 18/186.
  2. ^ Homepage of the Friends of Plassenburg eV
personal data
SURNAME Popp, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bacteriologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Kulmbach
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1993
Place of death Bimöhlen in Holstein