[Anton Ritter von Frisch (1849-1917): life and work of the first President of the German Society of Urology].

Professor Dr. Anton Ritter von Frisch was born in Vienna on 16 February 1849 where he was appointed Head of the Special Department for Diseases of the Urinary Organs at the General Polyclinic in 1889. Numerous publications and textbooks on urology can be attributed to him. From a historical perspective, he is particularly distinguished by the fact that he was elected as the first President of the German Society of Urology in 1907 in Vienna and was even designated to become President for a second time for the 1915 Congress, which however was never organized due to the outbreak of World War I. His early death in 1917 at the age of only 68 brought an end to his exceptionally productive and successful efforts on the part of urology.