Albert Maas (doctor)

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Albert Maas (born May 2, 1888 in Winnweiler ; died October 1936 in New York , United States ) was a German sports and theater doctor.

Life

Albert Maas was the second child of the Jewish businessman Moritz Maas. He first attended the Latin School in Winnweiler and later the Humanist High School in Kaiserslautern, where he passed his Abitur in 1907. He then studied medicine at the University of Munich , Würzburg and Heidelberg . In 1912 he interrupted his studies and went to the 3rd Company of the 9th Infantry Regiment in Würzburg as a one-year volunteer . He also had to interrupt his studies during the First World War . As a field doctor , he served on both the Western and Eastern Fronts in various field hospitals and hospitals. From 1916 to 1918 he was a medical officer in Potsdam. For his commitment he was honored with the Iron Cross, 2nd class . In 1917 he received his doctorate on copper splinter injury to the human eye in the field of ophthalmology . In 1919 he opened a doctor's practice in Kaiserslautern.

He volunteered as a theater doctor at the Theater Kaiserslautern and as a sports doctor for the football club 1900 Kaiserslautern (FVK). Even after the name change to the 1. FC Kaiserslautern and after the seizure of power he exercised this activity continues, although it according to the official race rules the Reich Sports leadership was not entitled to it. When the pressure on Maas increased and he found it difficult to carry out his profession, he emigrated to the United States in 1936, where he shortly afterwards committed suicide.

Maas left behind his wife Esther (née Meyer) and a son. Werner Karl Maas followed in his father's footsteps and became Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at New York University . In 2003 he published a biography of his father in Speyer under the title The life of my father 1888–1936: A picture of Jewish life in the Rhine Palatinate between emancipation, integration, expulsion and annihilation . An English-language edition was published in 2004.

Works

  • About copper splinter injury to the human eye . Heidelberg 1917. (Dissertation)

literature

  • Werner Karl Maas: The life of my father 1888-1936. A picture of Jewish life in the Rhine Palatinate between emancipation, integration, expulsion and annihilation . Speyer: Evang. Press release Pfalz 2003. ISBN 3-925536-87-6 .
  • Markwart Herzog: 4. Jewish biographies and fates: District judge Karl Maas - West Palatinate football pioneer . In: The "Betze" under the swastika. 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the time of National Socialism . Verlag die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-541-X , p. 36-37 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Markwart Herzog: 4. Jewish biographies and fates: District judge Karl Maas - West Palatinate football pioneer . In: The "Betze" under the swastika. 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the time of National Socialism . Verlag die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-541-X , p. 36-37 .
  2. ↑ Biographies . In: 11 Friends : Lost Heroes . 11 Freunde Verlag, Berlin 2014, p. 14 ( 11freunde.de [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Maas, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports and theater doctor
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnweiler
DATE OF DEATH October 1936
Place of death New York , United States