Ferdinand Hueppe

Ferdinand Hueppe (Born August 24, 1852 in Neuwied-Heddesdorf, died September 15, 1938 in Dresden) was, from 1900 to 1904, the first Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB, German Football League) president.

From 1872 to 1876, Hueppe studied medicine at the University of Berlin, and afterwards served as a military surgeon. From 1880 to 1884 he was a member of bacteriologist Robert Koch's staff in Berlin, and later worked at the Chemischen Institut Fresenius in Wiesbaden. From 1889 to 1912 he was a professor at Charles University in Prague.

Hueppe is remembered for his pioneer investigations of hormesis in regards to chemical stimulation/inhibition of bacterial growth. The eponymous "Hueppe’s Rule" is an historical term for hormesis.

Presidents of the Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB, German Football Association)

Ferdinand Hueppe Friedrich Wilhelm Nohe Gottfried Hinze Felix Linnemann Peco Bauwens Hermann Gösmann Hermann Neuberger Egidius Braun Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder Theo Zwanziger

References

Parts of this article are based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
International Dose-Response Society, Biography

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