Max Harry Liefmann

Max Harry Liefmann
1st standing from the right: Harry Liefmann
Personnel
birthday	August 7, 1877
place of birth	Steinbek ( Hamburg ),  Germany
date of death	October 30, 1915
Place of death	near Tyrmont,  Lithuania
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Freiburg FC
	Germania 1887 Hamburg
1 Only league games are given.

Max Harry Liefmann (born August 7, 1877 in Steinbek ( Hamburg ), † October 30, 1915 near Tyrmont ( Lithuania )) was a German bacteriologist and football player .

Life & Career

Max Harry Liefmann was born in Hamburg as the fourth of five children of the Jewish businessman Semmi Liefmann and his wife Auguste Juliane, née Cassel. Among the siblings are Walter Robert Liefmann and Toni Elsa Liefmann .

Harry Liefmann grew up in the south-western Grenzmark, in Freiburg im Breisgau .

He left the grammar school in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1896 with the Abitur exam. He studied medicine in Munich, Berlin and most recently in Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 1901.

During this time at the University of Freiburg he came into contact with other medical students and football enthusiasts, such as Gustav Manning and Ernst Schottelius , who brought him to Freiburg FC . In 1899 he was elected chairman by the members.

After completing his studies, he worked for the Dragoon Regiment in Colmar. Liefmann received military training and was promoted to medical officer of the reserve in 1911 . A brief activity at the University Eye Clinic in Strasbourg resulted in two papers on neurological topics. Then he turned back to bacteriology and hygiene under William Philipps Dunbar's direction - his doctoral thesis had also been based on a bacteriological question, it was about the effect of some acids on harmful drinking water.

From 1903 Liefmann volunteered at the State Hygiene Institute in Hamburg. Here he joined SC Germania 1887 Hamburg (one of the three founding clubs of Hamburger SV ) and built on his football passion from Freiburg.

In January 1904, Liefmann took up a position as an assistant doctor at the Institute for Hygiene and Bacteriology in Gelsenkirchen. From September 1904 to 1908 he was first assistant at the Hygiene Institute in Halle.

From 1903 to 1907 the institutes by Dunbar, Bruns and Fränkel were followed by studies on plant pollen poisons and hay fever, on ankylostomiasis, and studies on cholera, dysentery and typhus. In 1907 Liefmann qualified as a professor in the subjects of hygiene and bacteriology. In the following years of activity in Halle and later (from 1909) in Berlin as head of the Bacteriological Institute of the Rudolf Virchow Hospital, his interest in both bacteriological and hygienic areas was confirmed. Breeding of the anaerobes, studies of the nature of the bodies that are active in the Aquarian reaction, especially of the complement - they belong to the purely bacteriological field.

The University of Halle initially gave him leave of absence, but in 1911 he was again obliged to hold lectures due to the lack of teaching staff. In 1913, however, the university withdrew his venia legendi from him because Liefmann was not ready to give up his position in Berlin.

Increasingly, however, his interest turned to an important hygienic question, the reasons and conditions of infant mortality .

In October 1914, Liefmann began his military service at Fort Kugelbake in Cuxhaven and was in charge of the bacteriological research institute in Cuxhaven until July 1915. He was decommissioned on July 1, 1915 for the purpose of joining the army as a marine medical officer of the reserve with the rank of lieutenant captain . Harry Liefmann died on October 30, 1915 at Tyrmont (today's Turmantas in Lithuania.)

family

Harry Liefmann married Agatha Keil (born August 6, 1880) on September 7, 1907 in Freiburg im Breisgau . The two daughters Elisabeth Gertrud Liefmann (born June 4, 1908 in Halle an der Saale ) and Ursula Liefmann (born August 9, 1909 in Berlin-Grunewald ) emerged from the marriage.

Agatha Liefmann, née Keil, applied for the name to be changed to Liefmann-Keil. This was granted by the Justice Minister in Karlsruhe on March 13, 1930 and announced by the Freiburg im Breisgau district police department on July 14, 1930.

Fonts

• Investigations into the effect of some acids on harmful drinking water (dissertation, University of Freiburg, 1902)
• About the detection of soot in the air (Habilitation, University of Halle-Wittenberg, 1907)
• About the smoke and soot issue, especially from a health point of view and a method of soot detection in the air . In: German quarterly publication for public health care , 1908
• Recent experiences and beliefs about complement . In: Annual report on the results of immunity research . 1912
• The distinction between related types of bacteria through the precipitation of their protein using concentrated salt solutions . In: Munich medical weekly . No. 26, 1913
• The transmission of eye diseases in Berlin public baths . In: Publications of the German Society for People's Baths . Volume 6, No. 3, 1913
• Infant deaths in summer and homes . In: Hygiene . No. 12, 1913
• Spring infant mortality increases . In: German Medical Weekly , No. 36, 1913
• Infant Mortality and Housing Assistance . In: Journal of Public Health . No. 2, 1915
• For the treatment of spinal cord injuries in war . In: Munich medical weekly . No. 11, 1915, p. 390

Web links

• Max Harry Liefmann in the weltfussball.de database
• Max Harry Liefmann in the weltfussball.de database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ registry offices, civil registers, death registers, 1876-1950, Hamburg State Archive, Best. 332-5
2. ^ ^{A b} "Honor Rankings of the Imperial German Navy 1914-18", editor and publisher: Marine-Officer-Association, Berlin 1930, page 1388
3. ↑ Title of the dissertation: Investigations into the effects of certain acids on drinking water that is harmful to health
4. ↑ 100 years of FFC . Festival book for the 100th anniversary of the Freiburg Football Club e. V., page 130, list of chairmen since 1897
5. ↑ Title of the habilitation thesis: About the detection of soot in the air
6. ^ University archive Halle-Wittenberg, Rep. 11, personal file 10107 (Liefmann)
7. ↑ Lists of casualties from World War I 1914-1919, issue 818 No. 395 p. 10535 of December 3, 1915 - Infantry Regiment No. 353, Staff of the II Battalion
8. ↑ ancestry.com: Baden, Germany, Protestant Church Books, 1502–1985, pp. 382, ​​383
9. ↑ ^{a b c} Freiburg State Archives, holdings: G 650/1, Pak. 33, No. 35