Willy Fröhlich was born in 1907. After visiting school and university he completed his studies with a Ph D thesis on African market systems in 1941.
In 1961 he became director of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum for Ethnology in Cologne. Between 1965 and 1966 Fröhlich, who was a specialist in the anthropology of Africa, was secretary of the German Anthropological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, DGV).
Willy Fröhlich died in 1971.
[More information on this anthropologist is welcome]
(Text written by Vincenz Kokot in February 2012, based on BAA Prof. Riese. Additional information provided by Guido Sprenger; photo source: http://www.bildindex.de/obj05206140.html#|home)
