Background

Fock, Ruediger R. E. was born on August 4, 1954 in Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Son of Ernst and Adelgunde (Schmidt-Kestner) Fock.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, University Goettingen, Germany, 1980.

Career

Scientist microbiology University Hamburg, 1980—1984. Physician dialysis & cancer treatment Deister-Suentel Clinic, Bad Muender, Germany, 1984—1985. Government director Federal Ministry for Health, Bonn, Germany, 1986—1995.

Director, professor Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, since 1995. Head Civil-Military Working Group Infectious Diseases Protection, Berlin, since 1998. Colonel German Army, 1995.

Achievements

• Licensed physician.

Interests

• Other Interests

  Literature, philosophy, psychology, music.

Connections

Married Johanne G. Meinders, May 16, 1980. Children: Johanne Kristina, Henrich Ruediger Immanuel, Sophia Charlotte.

father:

Ernst Fock

mother:

Adelgunde (Schmidt-Kestner) Fock

spouse:

Johanne G. Meinders

child:

Henrich Ruediger Immanuel Fock

child:

Johanne Kristina Fock

child:

Sophia Charlotte Fock