Arno Philippsthal

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Memorial plaque on the house at Oberfeldstrasse 10, in Berlin-Biesdorf
Honor grave

Arno Philippsthal (born September 13, 1887 in Güsten ; † April 3, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German-Jewish doctor and one of the first victims of National Socialism in Berlin.

Life

He attended high school in Bernburg and studied medicine in Munich and Berlin from 1907 to 1912 . After his license to practice medicine in 1913, he practiced in Rogasen ( Province of Posen ). In 1916 he married Eva, who was also of Jewish origin. From 1914 to 1918 Arno Philippsthal took part in the First World War as a military doctor . After the war he moved to Berlin and settled in what was then the suburb of Biesdorf at today's Oberfeldstrasse 10. His social commitment was also reflected in the fact that he adjusted his fee claims to the financial possibilities of his patients. After his first marriage failed in 1924, he married his second wife Frieda, who was not Jewish, in 1927.

At the beginning of the 1930s, Philippsthal planned to found his own clinic ; he had already acquired a piece of land. On March 21, 1933, however, he was arrested by several SA men in practice without explanation or an arrest warrant. He was severely abused in the field police barracks on General-Pape-Strasse and died on April 3, 1933 of suppuration on both buttocks. His honorary grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Weißensee (field H VIII, row 30). The pending Berlin preliminary investigation into "abuse after arrest by the field police" was put down on August 15, 1933 by the Prussian Justice Minister Hanns Kerrl . In 1948 the newly started investigations were also discontinued because of the protective custody warrant against the then clerk at the police department in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, Hans Mittelbach , due to a lack of suspicion.

The nursing home named after him has been located in Biesdorf since 2000, Dr. Arno Philippsthal , on which a memorial stone for Philippsthal is attached. The adjacent street was renamed Arno-Philippsthal-Straße in 2002 . There is a memorial plaque for Philippsthal on the house in Oberfeldstrasse.

Fonts

  • Experience with atropine sulfuric acid , 1913. (Dissertation)

literature

  • Dorothee Ifland: Arno Philippsthal 1887-1933 in: Persecuted Doctors in National Socialism, documentation for the exhibition on the SA prison General-Pape-Strasse, publisher: Robert Koch Institute Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89606-030-9

Web links

Commons : Arno Philippsthal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Edith Raim: Justice between dictatorship and democracy: Reconstruction and prosecution of Nazi crimes in West Germany 1945 - 1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich, 2013, Zugl .: Augsburg, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2012, p. 371f.
  2. ^ Arno-Philippsthal-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Philippsthal, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jewish doctor
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Güsten , Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1933
Place of death Berlin