Saalbach, Herman Karl (1915-1993)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1993 Sep 2 p. 11

Birth date: 1915

text of obituary:

HERMAN K. SAALBACH

Herman Karl Saalbach, 78, of Springfield, Va., a retired Patent Office patent examiner and former patent lawyer and consulting engineer, died of prostate cancer July1 5, 1993, at Fairfax Hospital. He worked for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for 37 years before retiring in 1974 as a supervisory primary examiner. He then had a private practice in Crystal City as a lawyer and consulting engineer until retiring in 1987.

Saalbach, a New York native who moved to the Washington, D.C., area in 1937, was a graduate of City College of New York, where he also received a master's degree in electrical engineering. He was a 1948 graduate of Georgetown University law school.

He was a life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a charter member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Springfield. His hobbies included blacksmithing. He was a founding member of the Blacksmiths' guild of the Potomac and a member of the Artist-Blacksmiths' Association of North America.

Survivors include his wife, Eleanor Duerksen Saalbach of Springfield; two sons, Frederick K. of Hampton and William E. of Anandale; a daughter, Christine Saalbach of Pittsburgh; a brother, Carl Frederick Saalbach of New Jersey; and seven grandchildren.