Valentin Gerlach

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Johann Valentin Gerlach (born November 26, 1858 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 7, 1957 in Munich ) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist.

Life

Gerlach was a scion of a Frankfurt bourgeois family - citizenship since 1693 for Michael Gerlach (1661–1735) from Goslar. He was the son of the master builder Johann Jakob Gerlach (1829–1902) and his wife Margarethe Drill (1828–1909). Valentin Gerlach first attended the higher trade school in Frankfurt. He then studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . There he became active in the Corps Alemannia Karlsruhe . In his two semesters as a consenior , he developed into a prominent weapons student . He fought twenty racket gauges and five heavy saber games, three of which were without bandages. Since he was supposed to take over his father’s architectural office, but actually tended towards the natural sciences, he completed his studies with a specialist chemical examination. He also studied music.

He had chosen medicine, especially hygiene, as a career in life . As a one-year volunteer , he had already started preparing for his Abitur. He passed it at the Landgraf-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Giessen. He studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg . The Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg awarded him a doctorate in 1903. med. He specialized in bacteriology and hygiene. After a short medical practice, he became head of the hygiene department at the Wiesbaden investigation office, then co-founder of the Chemical-Hygienic Institute. In 1910 he took over the scientific management of the Association of German Food Manufacturers and Traders based in Nuremberg . At the same time he became editor of the Deutsche Lebensmittel-Rundschau , which he remained until his death - over 47 years. He came to almost every country in Europe, several times to Imperial Russia . He was a member of the Reich Health Office and until the end a scientific advisor to the Federal Association of the German Food Industry .

As chairman of the Corpsphilisterverband , he made friends with the Munich Hercynians in the Nuremberg – Fürth area. After moving to Munich in the early 1930s, he became a Hercynia corps bow bearer in 1935 . The renewal of the Corps student body after World War II put the 90-year-old in the forefront. Like hardly anyone else, he was committed to the reconstitution of his second corps in the Munich Seniors' Convention . On July 7, 1950, he received the Hercynian ribbon.

Gerlach was married to Marie born in 1888. Niederhaeuser (1863–1941), who gave him three sons, Walther (1889–1979) and the twins Wolfgang (1891–1976) and Werner (1891–1963). All three became active in the Corps Borussia Tübingen . Walther Gerlach became a physicist, Wolfgang Gerlach a general practitioner and Werner Gerlach a pathologist. Valentin Gerlach died in Munich in 1957 and was buried in the forest cemetery there.

Fonts

  • Physiological effects of benzoic acid and sodium benzoate . Wiesbaden 1909.
  • German food book . 1922.

Honors

literature

  • Lupold von Lehsten: Jakob Gerlach's friendship album on his wandering in 1849 and the Gerlach family of locksmiths in Frankfurt am Main. In: Hessian family history . Vol. 38 (2015), H. 3, Col. 113-124.
  • Christine Pieper: The social structure of the chief physicians of the General Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek 1913–1945. Lit, Münster 2003, p. 49.
  • Institute for Personal History, Bensheim, Vorlass Werner Kittel, folders Gerlach, with autograph travel notes in lined DIN-A-5 booklets, transcribed by his granddaughter Mrs. Ingeborg Kittel geb. Gerlach (1921-2018).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chemiker-Zeitung . 81: 506 (1957).
  2. ↑ a b c d e History of the Corps Hercynia Munich - Aschaffenburg – Munich - 1847–1977. Munich 1977, pp. 256-258.
  3. ^ Lupold von Lehsten: The friendship album of Jakob Gerlach on his wandering in 1849 and the Gerlach family of locksmiths in Frankfurt am Main. In: Hessian family history . Vol. 38 (2015), H. 3, Col. 113-124.
  4. ↑ Dissertation: Contributions to the theory of the digestion of protein and glue .
  5. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 107/733.
  6. ↑ Christine Pieper: The social structure of the chief physicians of the General Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek 1913-1945. Lit, Münster 2003, p. 49 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  7. ↑ Grave of the Gerlach family in the Munich forest cemetery (Grabfeld 108, location , pictures )
  8. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
personal data
SURNAME Gerlach, Valentin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerlach, Johann Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist in the food industry
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1957
Place of death Munich