Maximilian Knorr

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Maximilian Knorr, 1919

Maximilian Knorr (born September 21, 1895 in Breitengüßbach ; † February 6, 1985 in Munich ) was a German microbiologist and hygienist.

Life

Knorr studied medicine at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. In 1919 he was reciprocated in the Corps Moenania . In May 1920 he became a medical intern at the Hygiene Institute in Würzburg. On November 1, 1920, he went to the Hygienic-Bacteriological Institute and the State Bacteriological Research Institute in Erlangen as a scientific assistant. In April 1923 he qualified as a professor for hygiene and bacteriology. As a private lecturer , he became a conservator at the Max von Pettenkofer Institute on November 1, 1925 . Since 1927 associate professor , he was appointed by the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg on November 1, 1932 to succeed Karl Bernhard Lehmann . As a full professor of hygiene and bacteriology, he was the head of the Hygienic Institute and the State Bacteriological Research Institute. His doctoral students included Hermann Lindgens, who received his doctorate in 1935 with the thesis Medical Statistical Surveys in the Emergency Areas of Rhön and Spessart (the work provided materials for the so-called Rhön construction plan ) and Hans Joachim Schmidt , who soon after his doctorate with a thesis on statistical studies on the Dental Caries (1937) became known as a committed advocate of caries prophylaxis with fluoride . From 1939 to 1945 Knorr took part in the Army (Wehrmacht) in World War II. Released from automatic arrest by the American military government on August 10, 1945 , he ran a private bacteriological laboratory in Bamberg . On May 16, 1950, the Friedrich Alexander University appointed him to its chair for hygiene and bacteriology. This also made him head of the Hygienic-Bacteriological Institute in Erlangen. On September 30, 1963 emeritus , he represented his chair four years.

Honors

literature

  • Matthias Hofmann: The work of Professor Dr. Maximilian Knorr as director of the Hygiene Institute at the University of Würzburg from 1932 to 1945 . 1988.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ geneall.net
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 141/717.
  3. ^ Richard Kraemer: Würzburg physicians 50 years ago. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 5, 1987, pp. 165-172, here: pp. 166 f.
  4. ↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Supplement 3.) - At the same time: Dissertation Würzburg 1995), pp. 84-87.
  5. ↑ Maximilian Knorr (Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology at the University of Würzburg, p. 11)
personal data
SURNAME Knorr, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bacteriologist and hygienist, university lecturer in Würzburg and Erlangen
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Breitengüßbach
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1985
Place of death Munich