Medical Association Hamburg

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The Medical Association Hamburg was a free association of doctors to promote their medical knowledge through lectures and the procurement of specialist literature. The founding of the second oldest medical professional association in Germany after the Medical Association of Lübeck goes back to the year 1816; At the time, one of the tasks was to support doctors in need as well as their widows and orphans. The association was dissolved during the National Socialist era .

founding

At the invitation of the doctor Johann Heinrich de Chaufepié , sixty doctors, seven surgeons and twenty-four pharmacists came together on January 2, 1816 in the London inn on Jungfernstieg and founded the Medical Association in Hamburg. The purposes of the association were named:

  • Promotion of medical knowledge and collegiality
  • Maintaining the dignity of medical decency
  • Support of needy colleagues as well as those widows and orphans

Half of the membership fee of 48 marks was supposed to be used to buy medical books. The library of the Medical Association in Hamburg had its reading room in the Dresser's house on Johannisstrasse. Twice a month they met on Tuesday evening for a scientific lecture with debate; "Strangers whose residence was more than a mile from the city" could also be invited.

development

In 1834 the pharmacists organized their own association. At the celebration of the 50th anniversary in 1866, Sigismund Samuel Hahn was made an honorary member. In 1892 the Medical Association decided to discontinue the legislative part of its work and to represent its professional interests in favor of a planned medical association and to concentrate on further training. In 1894 the Doctors' Ordinance and Chamber concluded this development.

In 1892 235 of the doctors practicing in Hamburg were members of the association. Around 1900 there were 589 doctors in Hamburg, more than two thirds of whom belonged to the Medical Association. In 1916, 564 of the 860 Hamburg doctors were registered members of the Medical Association.

The meetings took place in the original building until 1842. From 1872 the patriotic building served as a club hall. After the construction of the new building on the Alster for the State Medical Association, the meetings took place there between 1934 and 1943.

time of the nationalsocialism

In her dissertation in 2002, Christine Pieper stated that the history of the Medical Association was "a previously unexplored area" for the period of National Socialism.

The top medical associations (Hartmannbund and Deutscher Ärztevereinsbund) were "brought into line" as early as March 1933 and the Hamburg Medical Association was dissolved on May 26, 1933. However, the National Socialists did not succeed in bringing the Medical Association into line in the same way.

As the representative of the Reichsärzteführer and chairman of the Hamburg Medical Association, Wilhelm Holzmann instructed the board of the Medical Association to include anti-Jewish provisions in the statutes. Only Aryans are therefore allowed to speak in lectures and debates and vote in general meetings; Non-Aryans could only remain as extraordinary members. The board then informed the members in writing in July 1933 that it felt bound by the existing laws of the association, according to which such a change of statutes was not possible, and resigned as a whole. Edgar Reye, who was entrusted with the management of the current business of the association for a transitional period, gave up this function in November 1933 "due to work overload". Based on other sources, Anna von Villiez comes to the conclusion that the Medical Association had not excluded its members marked as “non-Aryans”, at least until 1934. Requested amendments to the statutes for the introduction of the “Führer principle” could not be implemented until December 17, 1934.

Dieter Schmidt dated a "prohibition of the medical association" for the year 1934 - at the same time as the abolition of medical self-administration in favor of the Reich Medical Association in Berlin. The scientific evenings , however, found on October 8, 1935 again regularly. According to Hendrik van den Bussche , the event titles of the following years show that "the teaching tradition of the association was largely preserved intact over the Nazi era."

According to Selberg , however, the Medical Association was transferred to the State Medical Association in 1937 while retaining its name and its facilities. This was possible with a non-registered association without affecting its institutions. Since then, there is no longer any individual membership in addition to that of the Medical Association.

After 1945

After the Second World War , the Hamburg Medical Association took over the tradition of scientific lectures (initially as "Tuesday evenings of the Medical Association", later as "Lectures of the Medical Association" or "Medical Association - Advanced Training Academy") and continued the library of the Medical Association in Hamburg. A hall in the Völkerkundemuseum and, after 1976, the Humboldtstrasse Medical Center served as the venue .

In the 2010s, users borrowed significantly fewer books and instead used online media. In 2016, the delegates' assembly of the Hamburg Medical Association decided to discontinue the independent operation of the library of the Medical Association (BÄV) under the responsibility of the Chamber; the library was closed on April 30, 2017. Valuable holdings of the BÄV have been included in the special collections department of the Hamburg State and University Library as the "Historical Library of the Medical Association" and identified in the catalog.

literature

  • Christine Pieper: The social structure of the chief physicians of the General Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek 1913 to 1945 - a contribution to collective biographical research . Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6495-2 , pp. 156-160.
  • Anna von Villiez: Ousted with all her might. Disenfranchisement and persecution of “non-Aryan” doctors in Hamburg from 1933 to 1945 . Munich / Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-84-9 . (advanced)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Schmitt: Development and changes in the objectives, the structure and the effects of the professional associations , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, p. 25 ff.
  2. ↑ Dieter W Schmidt: Äskulap und die Alstermuse: Pleasurable things around the Medical Association of Hamburg; Sketch sheets on the history of medicine in Hamburg . Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-927245-06-2 , p. 144 / "Hotel Alte Stadt London" by Werner Selberg: On the history of the Medical Association in Hamburg. In: Hamburger Ärzteblatt. 45 (1991), p. 172.
  3. ↑ Werner Selberg: On the history of the medical association in Hamburg. In: Hamburger Ärzteblatt. 45 (1991), no. 4, p. 170.
  4. ^ Ernst Fromm: Medical Association Hamburg 170 years old. In: Hamburger Ärzteblatt. 40: 266 (1986).
  5. ^ Arnold Rimpau: Quod felix… For the 150th anniversary of the Doctors' Association. In: Hamburger Ärzteblatt. 20 (1966), p. 10.
  6. ^ Ernst Fromm: Medical Association Hamburg 170 years old. In: Hamburger Ärzteblatt. 40: 267 (1986).
  7. ↑ Numbers according to: Arnold Rimpau: Quod felix… For the 150th anniversary of the medical association. In: Hamburger Ärzteblatt. 20 (1966), p. 10 / Selberg, p. 171 / Pieper, p. 159.
  8. ↑ Werner Selberg: On the history of the medical association in Hamburg. In: Hamburger Ärzteblatt. 45 (1991), p. 172.
  9. ↑ Christine Pieper: The social structure of the chief physicians of the General Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek 1913 to 1945 ... Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6495-2 , p. 160.
  10. ↑ Hendrik van den Bussche (Ed.): Medical Science in the 'Third Reich' - Continuity, Adaptation and Opposition at the Hamburg Medical Faculty (Hamburg Contributions to the History of Science Volume 5) Berlin and Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-496-00477-0 , P. 46.
  11. ↑ Doc. VEJ 1/65: The board of the Hamburg Medical Association resigns in July 1933 because of anti-Jewish amendments to the statutes. In: Wolf Gruner (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (source collection): Volume 1: German Reich 1933–1937. Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58480-6 . - Note 2 on the current existence of the association is incorrect.
  12. ↑ Christine Pieper: The social structure of the chief physicians of the General Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek 1913 to 1945 ... Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6495-2 , p. 160.
  13. ↑ Anna von Villiez: Replaced with all might. Disenfranchisement and persecution of “non-Aryan” doctors in Hamburg from 1933 to 1945 . Munich / Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-84-9 , page 76. - The there p.75 called opinion of the medical association quote is actually an unnamed signed contribution from which the editor distanced: comp. Releases for doctors and dentists in Greater Hamburg. Issue 38, September 17, 1933, p. 472.
  14. ↑ Hendrik van den Bussche (ed.): Medical science in the 'Third Reich' . Berlin and Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-496-00477-0 , p. 46.
  15. ↑ Dieter W. Schmidt: Äskulap und die Alstermuse: Pleasurable things around the Medical Association of Hamburg; Sketch sheets on the history of medicine in Hamburg . Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-927245-06-2 , pp. 144/145.
  16. ↑ Hendrik van den Bussche (ed.): Medical science in the 'Third Reich' . Berlin and Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-496-00477-0 , p. 46.
  17. ↑ Werner Selberg: On the history of the medical association in Hamburg. In: Hamburger Ärzteblatt. 45 (1991), p. 173.
  18. ^ Ernst Fromm: Medical Association Hamburg 170 years old. In: Hamburger Ärzteblatt. 40: 270 (1986).
  19. ↑ Werner Selberg: On the history of the medical association in Hamburg. In: Hamburger Ärzteblatt. 45 (1991), p. 174.
  20. ↑ Doctors library threatens to end - Hamburger Abendblatt of July 8, 2016, p. 13.