Background
Friedrich Lange was born in Lonkorrek, West Prussia, the son of Eduard Lange, a local councillor and leaseholder.
Friedrich Lange was born in Lonkorrek, West Prussia, the son of Eduard Lange, a local councillor and leaseholder.
He studied medicine at the Albertus-Universität Königsberg and served as a hospital orderly in the Franco-Prussian War.
He then worked as a surgeon in Königsberg and Kiel. In 1900 he returned to Germany and made a large donation to the Palästra Albertina in Königsberg. In Neumark he founded the Kreiskrankenhaus for Kreis Löbau.
In Bischofswerder he established a hospice for the disabled.
He died of a stroke in a sanatorium in Potsdam-Babelsberg. A sports ground was named after him on Samitter Allee near Tragheimer Palve in Königsberg.
He was a fraternity member of the Burschenschaft Gothia Königsberg.