Alfred Haas (doctor)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alfred Haas (born December 19, 1878 in St. Ingbert , † 1978 in New York City ) was a German surgeon and founder of a hospital in Munich .

Live and act

Family, education and first job

Alfred Haas' parents were Julius Haas and Clara, geb. Weisenbeck. He studied at the University of Munich from 1897 and became a doctor of medicine in 1902. He then worked as a surgical assistant in Saarbrücken and Paderborn until 1904 . He then worked as an assistant in surgery and orthopedics at the Cologne City Hospital. From 1907 he had a private surgical practice in Munich. In 1909 he married Elsa Schülein, a daughter of the brewery owner Joseph Schülein . The marriage produced a daughter and a son.

Private Clinic Dr. Haas on Richard-Wagner-Strasse

Haas had a surgical-orthopedic private clinic built at Richard-Wagner-Strasse 19 in Munich's Maxvorstadt in 1910/11 , which he headed from 1912 to 1938. His wife Elsa brought the property into the marriage as a dowry. The clinic initially offered space for 45 patients. In 1928 it was expanded by 15 beds by purchasing the neighboring house and it was given an X-ray department. In addition to the practice, surgeons were also trained in the clinic.

During the First World War Haas sat in his clinic a reserve military hospital one, were treated in the wounded soldier.

National Socialist Expulsion

Alfred Haas was of Jewish faith. During the Nazi era , the deaconesses, who had been nurses since the clinic was founded, quit their service for racist reasons, after there had been difficulties with the assistant doctors. The clinic could only be maintained because Catholic nuns from the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Erlenbad stepped in at short notice and took over the care. After his license to practice medicine was withdrawn in October 1938, Haas and his family emigrated first to Great Britain and then to the United States. After the expropriation, a maternity hospital was set up in the clinic, and the nuns were soon replaced by secular nursing staff, the so-called “ Brown Sisters ”. Haas lost his German citizenship in 1939 and his doctorate was revoked in 1940.

Life in exile

Haas worked in 1939 as an assistant in surgery at the University Hospital in London and as a research assistant at the Anatomy Institute of the University of London. From 1940 he practiced in the United States. He had a private practice in New York City and worked as a consultant surgeon at Misericordia and Wyckoff Hospital, among others.

After the restitution of his property rights after the Second World War , Alfred Haas sold the Munich clinic to the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Erlenbad , as his family preferred to stay in the United States after the discrimination and persecution experienced in the Third Reich .

Haas published around 40 specialist articles on surgical problems. In 1968 he was awarded the medal “ Munich Glows ” by the City of Munich . He died in New York in 1978.

literature

  • Jutta Ostendorf: The Richard-Wagner-Strasse in Munich. The houses and their stories. Volk, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-937200-37-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Haas, Alfred. In: Who's Who in the East: a Biographical Dictionary of Noteworthy Men and Women of the Middle Atlantic and Northeastern States. 6th edition. Marquis - Who's Who, Chicago 1957.
  2. ↑ a b Haas, Alfred. In: American men of medicine: third edition of Who's important in medicine. Institute for Research in Biography, Farmingdale 1961.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Gerhard Locher: On the fate of Jewish doctors in Munich. In: Bavarian Medical Journal. 1–2 / 2017, p. 29 ( online ).
  4. ↑ a b Stefanie Harrecker: Degraded Doctors. The revocation of the doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich during the Nazi era. Utz, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8316-0691-7 , p. 286 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Haas, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert
DATE OF DEATH 1978
Place of death New York City