Alfred Bass

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Alfred Bass (born August 1, 1867 in Linz , Austria-Hungary ; died after October 28, 1941 ) was an Austrian doctor , for a time a member of the Wednesday Society around Sigmund Freud and a victim of the Shoah .

Life

Bass was the son of Josef Bass , a teacher from Pilsen , nothing is known of his mother. His parents were of Jewish origin. He attended the Imperial and Royal Higher Education School in Pilsen and graduated in 1886. He then studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1892. He then worked as a general practitioner in Mariaschein in Northern Bohemia. From 1897 to 1899 he wrote articles on social issues. He was committed to improving the legal and material situation of statutory health insurance doctors, as well as their organization, changes in health care and state regulations in the field of health insurance . From 1899 Bass worked as a general practitioner in Vienna-Mariahilf , at Mariahilfer Strasse 95, and was registered with the police there until 1940.

In 1908, the medical hand dictionary for general practitioners appeared , edited by Max Kahane (1866-1923), for which he wrote several articles. On October 10, 1906, he was present for the first time at a lecture evening of Sigmund Freud's Wednesday Society , from which the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association (WPV) developed, which was formally founded as an association in 1908. On November 7, 1906, he heard Alfred Adler's lecture on The Fundamentals of Neuroses . The UPU minutes show that Bass regularly attended the meetings in 1908 and 1909. He was also entrusted with literature research on sociological questions by Adler, who was still part of Freud's circle at the time. On April 3, 1909, he himself gave a lecture in the UPU on the subject of words and thoughts , but resigned from the association on November 3, 1909. On October 30, 1912, he was again a guest at a lecture by Freud.

During the First World War he worked as a medical doctor. He received an award from the Austrian Red Cross for his services . In the post-war years he also worked as the municipal school doctor for the municipality of Vienna, continued to work for social medicine and acted as a contact person for the city council Julius Tandler on psychoanalysis . In a book by Marcus G. Patka , the role of chief physician at the health care institution of the city employees is mentioned. On May 4, 1940, he moved to Köstlergasse 10, and on October 28, 1941, he was deported to the Łódź ghetto at the age of 74. Nothing is known about his further fate. The victim database of the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance records: “Not survived”. After Alfred Bass was classified as “unable to work” at the age of 74, it is assumed that he either starved to death in the ghetto or was murdered in the adjacent Kulmhof extermination camp .

Publications

  • "Organization" in Prague Medical Weekly, XXI, nos. 40–43
  • "The Tariff" in Prague Medical Weekly, XXII, No. 47
  • Max Kahane (ed.): Medical hand dictionary for general practitioners . With the participation of Alfred Adler (Vienna), Alfred Bass (Vienna), Julius Baum (Berlin), Iwan Bloch (Charlottenburg), Rudolf Bum (Vienna), A. Eitelberg (Vienna), Otfried O. Felner (Vienna), Paul Freund (Berlin), Adolf Th. Hecht (Vienna), Ferdinand Kornfeld (Vienna), Reinhold Ledermann (Berlin), Rudolf Neurath (Vienna), Isidor Sadger (Vienna-Graefenberg), Moritz Teich (Vienna), Hugo Weiss (Vienna). Berlin Vienna 1908

Awards

Commemoration

Memorial stone

A memorial stone in front of the house at Köstlergasse 10 in Vienna-Mariahilf , relocated by Erinnern für die Zukunft, commemorates Alfred Bass .

literature

  • Elke Mühlleitner: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938 . Tübingen: Edition Diskord, 1992, ISBN 3-89295-557-3 , p. 32 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sabine Zaufarek: Alfred Bass - Biography at psyalpha, knowledge platform for psychoanalysis. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
  2. ↑ Van Swieten Blog of the Medical University of Vienna: Literature note , accessed on August 30, 2015
  3. ^ Giuseppe Ferrigno et al .: Alfred Adler nei verbali della "Società psicoanalitica di Vienna" , accessed on August 30, 2015
  4. ↑ “When a request was made for urban space for the Vienna psychoanalytical outpatient clinic in January 1927, Eduard Hitschmann noted that Bass had spoken to Tandler. The request was unsuccessful. ”In: Sabine Zaufarek: Alfred Bass - Biography , at psyalpha.
  5. ^ Marcus G. Patka: Austrian Freemasons in National Socialism Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78546-0 , 67
  6. ↑ DÖW victim database: Alfred Bass query , accessed on August 30, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Bass, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor who was persecuted by the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH between 1941 and 1945
Place of death Lodz ghetto or extermination camp