Berthold Oppler

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Berthold Oppler (born May 6, 1871 in Hanover ; died January 6, 1943 ) was a German internist and immunologist .

Life

Berthold Oppler was born into a German-Jewish family . He was the son of the architect Edwin Oppler and his wife Ella Oppler (née Cohen), his brothers were the artists Alexander Oppler and Ernst Oppler and the lawyer and notary Siegmund Oppler .

After studying medicine at the University of Munich and gaining his doctorate in 1895, he worked as a doctor at the Munich Polyclinic . In 1913 he married Else Harless (1889–1962) and in the same year adopted a daughter (Lisa Oppler, 1911–1957). Like his brothers, he served in the First World War.

After 1933, Berthold Oppler was persecuted as a Jew. However, he was obviously able to dampen the escalation of the coercive measures used against him until 1941. His wife tried to get the family to emigrate by writing to Adolf Eichmann in 1941, arguing that she and the adopted daughter were not of Jewish faith. The letter was unsuccessful and resulted in Berthold Oppler being sent to a so-called “ Jewish home ”. On January 6, 1943, Berthold Oppler committed suicide in order to forestall a threatened deportation to an extermination camp .

Works by Ernst Oppler were saved from his estate. These are now in the German Dance Archive in Cologne .

Publications (selection)

  • A great psammon of the brain . Dissertation Munich 1895.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Heusler (arr.): Biographical memorial book of the Munich Jews. 1933 - 1945 , ed. from the Munich City Archive, Volume 2: (M - Z) , Munich: EOS-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8306-7280-7 and ISBN 3-8306-7280-2 , p. 230; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Oppler, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1943