Ferdinand Hueppe

Ferdinand Hueppe
Hueppe in 1902
1st President of the DFB
In office 7 October 1900 (1900-10-07) – 1904 (1904)
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Friedrich Wilhelm Nohe
Personal details
Born	Ferdinand Adolph Theophil Hueppe (1852-08-24)24 August 1852 Neuwied-Heddesdorf, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	15 September 1938(1938-09-15) (aged 86) Dresden, Nazi Germany
Alma mater	University of Berlin

Ferdinand Adolph Theophil Hueppe (24 August 1852 – 15 September 1938) was a German physician, bacteriologist and hygienist. From 1900 to 1904, he was the first Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB, German Football Association) president.

Biography

From 1872 to 1876, Hueppe studied medicine at the

Hueppe is remembered for his pioneer investigations of

Hueppe promoted a

Hueppe opposed vegetarianism and characterized German vegetarians as "feminized men" who degenerated the Aryan race.^[1] He argued that "Powerful Aryan elites" risked degeneration if they turned away from the omnivorous diet that had made their bodies and nation strong.^[1] Hueppe stated that the earliest humans were meat eaters and that modern humans survive best on an omnivorous diet because a vegetarian diet is excessive in carbohydrates and lacks in protein. He described vegetarians as the "victims of an unnatural mode of existence".^[2][3]

Publications

His book on bacterial research, Die methoden der bakterien-forschung, was later translated into English and published in 1886 with the title "The methods of bacteriological investigation".^[4] Other noted efforts by Hueppe include:

• Naturwissenschaftliche Einführung in der Bakteriologie, 1896 – Natural sciences introduction to bacteriology.
• Der moderne Vegetarianismus 1900 – Modern vegetarianism.
• Hygiene der Körperübungen, 1922 – Hygiene associated with physical exercise.^[5]

References

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