[en] Presented here is a method for the determination of the pore size distribution of a membrane microfilter. Existing test metods are either cumbersome, as is the Erbe method; time consuming, as is the evaluation of electron microscope photographs; do not really measure the pore distribution, as the mercury intrusion method; or do not satisfactorily evaluate the large pore range of the filter, as is the case with the automated ASTM method. The new method described in this paper is based upon the solution of the integral flow equation for the pore distribution function. A computer program evaluates the flow test data and calculates the numerical pore distribution, water-flow distribution, air-flow distribution and capillary area distribution, as a function of the pore size. (orig./RW)