Paul Schober

Born 1865
Died 1943

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German physician, born March 11, 1865, Stuttgart; died August 22, 1943.

Biography of Paul Schober

Paul Schober studied in Tübingen, Berlin and Strassburg, where he passed the state examination in 1890. He then worked as a physician in Tübingen and other places in southern Germany, and for period he was a ship's physician with the Deutsche Ostafrika-Linie (German East Africa Line). In 1896 he qualified as a physician in France and then settled in Paris. In 1914 Schober left Paris to become a staff physician in Stuttgart as well as medical officer in charge of a camp for French prisoners of war. From 1816 to 1933 he was a state balneologist and head of the state spa administration in Wildbad.

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