Albert David (medic)

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Stumbling block for Dr. Albert David in Großburgwedel

Albert David (born September 4, 1866 in Gleidingen , † May 19, 1940 in Großburgwedel ) was a German general practitioner.

Live and act

Family and youth

Albert David was the son of the cattle dealer Isaac David and born of Rosa David. Rodenberg. He had an older sister, Anna David, born in 1865, and a younger brother, Otto David, born in 1867. The family moved from Gleidingen to Hanover in 1868. Albert David attended the Municipal Lyceum I on Georgsplatz in the city center and graduated from high school in 1888. He began studying medicine in Berlin in 1888, then moved to Freiburg and then to Munich. Here he received his doctorate in medicine, surgery and obstetrics in 1892. The topic of his doctoral thesis was: "Pharmacological experiments on some isoxazoles". His father Isaac David died in 1892. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery An der Strangriede in the northern part of Hanover.

Doctor in Großburgwedel and First World War

In 1894 he settled in Großburgwedel and opened a practice in Großburgwedel No. 157. He lived here until his death in 1940. At the age of 48, he was involved in the First World War with the rank of lieutenant and was awarded the Iron Cross.

Weimar Republic and National Socialism

Albert David's healing art was very much appreciated in Großburgwedel and the surrounding villages. The profession of general practitioner was the center of his life. He was considered an "original Hagestolz" and owner of bibliophile treasures. He was also a numismatist: at the end of his life he owned a remarkable encyclopedic coin collection. He also traveled a lot. These took him again and again to Munich, the city of his student days, but also to Switzerland. In 1933, the approval of the health insurance was withdrawn. An exception was initially made for doctors who had settled down before 1914 or who fought as soldiers in the First World War. In 1938, when Dr. But David has every opportunity to treat patients. Further humiliations, such as adding "Israel" to his first name, followed. His fortune was gradually withdrawn from him, as well as parts of his precious coin collection. A few days after the Reichspogromnacht of November 9-10, 1938, the 72-year-old doctor wrote a will. A year and a half later, on May 19, 1940, Dr. David committed suicide in his apartment. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Hanover-Bothfeld .

His younger brother Otto David died on January 18, 1942 in the Israelite Hospital in Hanover. The first transports to the Riga ghetto took place from there a month earlier. The older sister Anna, married to Max Schwarz, had moved to Berlin at the turn of the century. Here their track is lost.

Honors

Street sign of the Dr.-Albert-David-Strasse in Großburgwedel

See also

Works

  • Pharmacological experiments on some isoxazoles (Diss. Med. 1892)

literature

  • Simone Vogt (Red.), Wolfgang Schepers et al. : Citizens' Treasures. Collect for Hanover. 125 years of Museum August Kestner (= Museum Kestnerianum , Volume 19), catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at Museum August Kestner from September 12, 2013 to March 2, 2014, 2013, ISBN 978-3-924029-53-1 ; in this
    • Annette Baumann: Albert David , pp. 102–114
    • Simone Vogt: The assignment of gold coins to the David Collection , pp. 115–121
  • Irmtraud Heike: Dr. med. Albert David (1866–1940) - a Jewish doctor from Hanover , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 70, Hanover 2016, vol. 70, pp. 124–140
  • Johannes Schwartz: Provenance research on gold coins Dr. med. Albert Davids , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 70, Hanover 2017, Vol. 71, pp. 235-257
  • Johannes Schwartz, Simone Vogt (ed.): Traces of Nazi persecution. Provenance research in the cultural history collections of the city of Hanover , published by Museum August Kestner, Cologne: Wienand, 2019, ISBN 978-3-86832-551-5 ; in this:
    • Simone Vogt: History in Gold - The Albert Davids Coin Collection , pp. 50–73
    • Johannes Schwartz: Who do Albert David's gold coins belong to? The will and the hiding place as a result of anti-Semitic Nazi persecution practice , pp. 74–93
  • Irmtraud Heike, Jürgen Zimmer: Dr. Albert David - a Jewish Doctor Driven to Death , in: Stolen Lives. Searching for traces: Burgwedel during the Nazi era , Hamburg: VSA, 2019, ISBN 978-3-96488-038-3 , pp. 26–65

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME David, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general practitioner
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Gleidingen
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1940
Place of death Großburgwedel