Georg Jochmann

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Georg Jochmann (11 October 1874 – 6 January 1915) was a German doctor who specialized in infectious diseases. He was born in Liegnitz. He earned his medical degree in 1898 at the University of Freiburg. After graduation, he worked with Bernhard Fischer at Kiel’s Institute of Hygiene, then in internal medicine at Hamburg-Eppendorf Hospital under Theodor Rumpel and at Breslau’s university clinic under Alfred Kast and Adolph Strümpell. He completed his habilitation in internal medicine at Breslau in 1904. In 1906 he became head of the infections department at Rudolf-Virchow-Krankenhaus in Berlin, and in 1910 he was named a professor. He died in 1915 at age 40 from spotted typhus, contracted while treating Russian prisoners of war. He is buried at Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery near Berlin.