Arnold Orgler

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Arnold Orgler (born December 2, 1874 in Posen , † September 13, 1957 in London ) was a German - British pediatrician .

Live and act

Arnold Orgler was born the son of Julius Orgler (1829–1902), Privy Councilor and Honorary Citizen of Poznan, and Ida, geb. Ash. He was of Jewish faith . Orgler attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Poznan and studied medicine at the universities of Munich , Strasbourg and Berlin . He was approved in 1897 and obtained his doctorate in Berlin in 1898. From 1896 to 1903 he worked as a volunteer assistant at the Pathological Institute of the University of Berlin, then as an assistant to Adalbert Czerny at the University Children's Hospital in Breslau .

In 1907 he opened a practice as a pediatrician in Berlin. At the same time, he took up a job at Hugo Neumann's charitable children's home , where he rose to become a medical director. In addition, he managed the children's sanatorium in Borgsdorf of the Berliner Kinderheilstätte Association. During the First World War , from 1914 to 1918 he was a medical officer at the front and chief physician of war hospitals. In 1917 he received his habilitation at the University of Berlin. From December 1921 Orgler was the medical director of the municipal nursing home for babies and mothers in Neukölln, which he helped to plan and which he was able to open in 1923. In 1924 the University of Berlin appointed him associate professor for paediatrics, and in 1928 he was made a civil servant.

After the National Socialists seized power on September 21, 1933, his license to teach was revoked on account of the “ Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ” due to “non-Aryan descent”. When he learned that he was going to lose his job, he retired on December 1, 1933 for health reasons. Hans Opitz was his successor as director of the Neukölln infant and maternity home . Orgler stayed in Berlin, where he lived at Leibnizstrasse 60. From 1938 he worked in the children's ward of the Jewish Hospital Berlin and as a consultant pediatrician for the Jewish community . On September 30, 1938, like all other Jewish doctors, his license to practice medicine was revoked.

On July 1, 1939, he emigrated to England and settled in London. From 1942 he worked as an Assistant Medical Officer at the Medical School Service in the London suburb of Bromley , County Kent . In 1947 he received British citizenship . In 1952 he retired.

Orgler's scientific areas of expertise were metabolic disorders , particularly rickets , infant nutrition and twin research .

Arnold Orgler was married to Hertha Orgler, born in 1911. Bernstein (1890–1979). Hertha Orgler published a biography of the individual psychologist Alfred Adler in 1956 . They had two sons: Kurt and Helmut. Arnold Orgler was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the Red Cross Medal 3rd Class.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the physiology of the adrenal glands. Ebering, Berlin 1898 (dissertation).
  • The infant's protein metabolism. In: Results of internal medicine and paediatrics. Vol. 2 (1908), pp. 464-520, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-90633-6_12 .
  • The calcium metabolism of the healthy and the rachitic child. In: Results of internal medicine and paediatrics. Vol. 8 (1912), pp. 142-182, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-90629-9_4 .
  • On the feeding disorders of the infant. Fischer's medical bookstore, Berlin 1924.
  • Observations on identical twins. In: Annales Pediatrici. Vol. 172 (1949), H. 5/6, p. 375 f., PMID 18151669 .

literature

  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , pp. 426-428 (with photograph).
  • Harry Joe Aronowicz: From the municipal nursing home to the children's clinic in Neukölln. 1982 (medical dissertation, Free University Berlin, 1982), especially pp. 53-77 (with a short biography and summaries of his writings).
  • Eduard Seidler : Jewish paediatricians 1933–1945. Disenfranchised, fled, murdered. Extended new edition. Karger, Basel 2007, p. 185 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orgler Julius , “Biographies” on the “Virtual Shtetl” website, accessed on April 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ GeDenkOrt.Charité: Die Menschen , “GeDenkOrt.Charité - Science in Responsibility” on the Charité website , accessed on August 26, 2018.
  3. ↑ Marriage register, Standesamt Berlin I, II, Nr. 664/1911, available for a fee at ancestry.com.
  4. ↑ Gerald Mackenthun (Ed.): Alfred Adler - as we knew him. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, p. 66, fn. 46 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Orgler, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1957
Place of death London