Arnold Holitscher

Arnold Holitscher

Arnold Holitscher (born August 7, 1859 in Vienna , † October 21, 1942 in Prague ) was an Austrian doctor and activist of the workers abstinence movement .

life and work

Arnold Holitscher was born on August 7, 1859 in Vienna as the son of a brewer . In his youth he was an alcoholic . However, he soon turned to the abstinence movement . He studied medicine at the University of Vienna , where he was awarded a Dr. med. received his doctorate. He practiced as a doctor in Pirkenhammer near Karlsbad for 27 years and was appointed head doctor of the district health insurance fund to Komotau in 1926 . For many years he worked as managing director of the association of abstinent doctors in the German-speaking area and was chairman of the workers' abstinence association from 1919 to 1925. From 1920 to 1925 a member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in Czechoslovakia (DSAP) in the Prague Parliament, he initiated the Czechoslovakian law on the ban on serving young people in 1922 , which was named "Lex Holitscher" in his honor. In 1929 he won a Senate seat in the National Assembly for the DSAP, which he held until 1935. After the annexation of the Sudetenland by the National Socialist German Reich in October 1938, he fled to Prague. He died here in 1942.

In February 1930 Arnold Holitscher was instrumental in founding the Association of German Social Democratic Doctors in the Czechoslovak Republic . In May 1931 this association joined together with the Association of Czechoslovak Social Democratic Doctors in Karlovy Vary to the International Association of Socialist Doctors . Together with Augustin Turek, he was editor of the International Medical Bulletin published in Prague from 1934 to 1938 .

literature

• Theodor Gruschka . Comrade Dr. Arnold Holitscher . In: The socialist doctor , 5th year (1929), issue 3 (September), pp. 141–142 (digitized version )
• Robert N. Proctor . Racial hygiene. Medicine under the Nazis . Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge 1988, p. 279
• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 570.

Works

• The fight against alcoholism as a moral and national duty. Lecture given… 1903… in Karlsbad. OO, 1903
• Customs of alcohol and opium. A comparative study. In: Die Alcohol Question, 1st year (1904), Heft 4, pp. 341–355
• Alcohol Customs and Abstinence. A reply to Ferdinand Hueppe's lecture “Alcohol Abuse and Abstinence.” Suschitzky, Vienna 1904
• Alcohol and tuberculosis. A reply. In: Prague Medical Weekly. 31 (1906), nos. 11-12
• Commercial health education. Commonly presented. (Library of the entire technology volume 14) M. Jänecke, Hanover 1907
• Alcohol and child. Verlag Deutscher Arbeiter-Abstinenten-Bund, Berlin approx. 1908
• Pocket atlas on alcohol. German workers abstinence union, Berlin ca.1908
• The intoxicating drinks. Kupferschmid, Munich 1912
• Alcohol leaflet for soldiers in the field. Pirkhammer near Karlsbad 1914 (digitized version )
• Damage to popular nutrition. O. Gmelin, Munich 1917

Magazine articles

• In: The Socialist Doctor
  • Is health insurance a final destination or a transition? Volume IV (1928), Issue 1–2 (August), pp. 3–10 (digitized version)
  • Guiding principles on the socialization of healing. Volume VII (1931), Issue 7 (July), pp. 185–187 (digitized version )
  • Together with Theodor Gruschka . To found the socialist medical international. Volume VII (1931), Issue 11 (November), pp. 300–305 (digitized version )
  • Great Depression and the Fight against Alcohol. Volume VII (1931), Issue 11 (November), pp. 306–308 (digitized version )
  • The 7th Austrian alcohol day. Volume VIII (1932), Issue 1 (January), pp. 16-17 (digitized version)
• In: International Medical Bulletin
  • Vienna. [Fall of the Red Vienna.] Volume I (1934), Issue 3–4 (March – April), pp. 39–41 (digitized version)
  • Why the noise? Volume I (1934), Issue 12 (December), pp. 174–178 (digitized version )
  • Interpellation of the German and Czech Social Democrats in the parliaments on the case of Dr. Gach. Section from the interpellation by Senator Dr. Arnold Holitscher. Volume II (1935), Issue 4 (April), pp. 52–53 (digitized version )
  • Emigration and Asylum Law. Volume II (1935), Issue 4 (April), pp. 54–55 (digitized version)
  • Epilogue to the contribution by LH “After the elections to the Chamber of Physicians in Bohemia”. Volume II (1935), Issue 8–9 (November – December), p. 123 (digitized version)
  • Review of: Tandler and S. Kraus. "The social balance of the alcoholic family." Volume III (1936), Issue 2–3 (March – April), pp. 28–33 (digitized version )
  • TG Masaryk. Volume IV (1937), Issue 8 (October), p. 89 (digitized version)
  • The XXI. International Congress Against Alcoholism in Warsaw. September 12 to 17, 1937. Volume IV (1937), Issue 8 (October), pp. 100–101 (digitized version )
  • Put an end to efforts to harmonize in the Reichsverband! A serious warning to the German doctors in the ČSR. Volume V (1938), Issue 1–2 (January - February), pp. 1–4 (digitized version)
  • From the Reich Association of German Medical Associations in the Czechoslovak Republic. Volume V (1938) 5-6 (Jul – Aug.), Pp. 48–49 (digitized version )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From the socialist medical movement. Constituent assembly of the Association of German Social Democratic Doctors in the Czechoslovak Republic. In: The socialist doctor , 6th year (1930), issue 1 (February), p. 43 (digitized version)
2. ↑ Ewald Fabian . The Karlovy Vary Meeting of Socialist Doctors. In: The socialist doctor , 7th year (1931) issue 7 (July), p. 197 (digitized version)