Patrolman Herman Henry Mittendorf Jr.

Also kept at

Died on March 13, 1919, aged 36.

His life

Patrolman Herman Mittendorf died as a result of complications from influenza while performing his assigned duties during the Influenza Pandemic.

The Cincinnati Police Department had been tasked with enforcing local health laws to help prevent the spread of Influenza as well as perform their regular police duties. Many officers in the department became ill while on duty and died as a result of complications of influenza.

Patrolman Mittendorf served with the Cincinnati Police Department for 10 years. He was survived by his expectant wife, and two children. He is buried at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.

Survived by

He was survived by his expectant wife, and two children.

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

January 1, 1918

The influenza of 1918 came in waves, the worst of them in the autumn of that year, and it killed the young and strong as readily as the old. Before it was over it had killed more people than the First World War.

Police officers worked it without vaccines, without antibiotics and often without masks: enforcing quarantines, carrying the sick, standing posts in cities where the dead outpaced the undertakers. They caught it doing the job, and there was no treatment to give them.

They are the first named here.

Everyone taken by The 1918 Influenza Pandemic →

Where this happened is not drawn yet.

Nothing is held of him yet.

No monument carrying this name is recorded yet.

Who was beside him is still being drawn.

No family is recorded with him yet.

What people have said

Nobody else has said anything for Herman Henry Mittendorf Jr. yet.

Everyone taken by The 1918 Influenza Pandemic →