Bruno Leichtentritt

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Bruno Leichtentritt (born February 22, 1888 in Breslau , † October 14, 1965 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) was a German-American medic ( pediatrician ).

Life and activity

Leichtentritt studied medicine at the universities of Munich and Breslau. In 1913 he received his license to practice medicine. He received his doctorate in 1914 under Emil Ungar in Bonn.

From 1913 to 1914 Leichtentritt worked at the children's clinic of the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf (Schloßmann). From 1915 to 1918 he worked in pathology and at the Hygiene Institute of the University of Wroclaw.

From 1919 to 1928 Leichtentritt worked at the University Children's Hospital in Breslau ( Stolte ). During this time he qualified as a professor for pediatrics in 1922 and was appointed associate professor in 1926. In 1928 Leichtentritt was appointed primary doctor in the children's department of the State Insurance Institute in Silesia , which he remained until 1933. In addition to these main activities, he served from 1922 to 1933 as a pediatric consultant at the Wroclaw City Hospitals.

Due to the power of commencement of the Nazis in the spring of 1933 Leichtentritt was dismissed because of his Jewish ancestry line with the provisions of the law re-establishing the Civil Service December 1, 1933 the service of the National Insurance Institute Silesia.

In the following years Leichtentritt ran a private practice in Breslau. Two attempts on his part to emigrate to Great Britain failed in the following years: in 1933 he was requested by the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, but was unable to take up this position because the relevant British authorities did not give his employment permission. An application for an Eunice Oakes Research Fellowship in September 1938 was rejected for reasons of age. In November 1938, Leichtentritt finally emigrated to the United States with the help of the Fellow of the Children Fund of Michigan. In the following years he worked in the field of research into rheumatism and arthritis .

In 1944 he opened a pediatrician practice in Cincinnati (403 McAlpine Avenue 20). He has also worked at the Municipal Health Department, the Child Guidance Home of the Jewish Hospital and the Childrens' Heart Association.

In Germany, Leichtentritt was meanwhile classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialists: In the spring of 1940 the Reich Security Main Office put him on the special wanted list GB, a directory of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British island by the Wehrmacht, would be killed by special SS commandos who were responsible for the occupation forces should follow, should be located and arrested with special priority.

Leichtentritt turned down a call to Rostock University in 1947. Instead, he received the status of emeritus. In 1960 he also became an honorary member of the DGfK.

Leichtentritt's main research areas were infant nutrition, avitaminoses, tuberculosis, rheumatism and arthritis.

Fonts

  • Experience with the protein milk produced by the Engel process. 1914 (dissertation).
  • Barlow clinical and experimental studies. 1923. (Habilitation thesis).

literature

  • German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition. Vol. 6 (Kraatz – Menges), 2006, p. 329.
  • Eduard Seidler: Jewish Pediatricians. Victims of Persecution 1933-1945. 2007, p. 217 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog card of the dissertation , dissertation catalog up to 1980, University Library Basel , accessed on December 17, 2015.
  2. ↑ Entry on Leichtentritt on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London)
personal data
SURNAME Take it easy, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American physician (pediatrician)
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1965
Place of death Cincinnati , Ohio