Carl Lehmann (physician)

Carl A. Lehmann (born July 8, 1865 in Offenburg ; † April 1915 as a hospital doctor in Valenciennes , France ) was the second husband of Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann , the first general practitioner in Germany.

Life

He was the son of the Offenburg tannery owner Roman Lehmann, who also served as a city councilor for the center in his hometown. In protest against the middle-class family and the school, Carl allegedly threw an inkwell at his teacher and was then expelled from the school, as well as from a boarding school near Ludwigsburg. In a secondary school in Göppingen he got his Abitur after all. After military service in Munich, he learned in his father's tannery, then went on a journey to Scandinavia. After his return, the rowdy giant ran into a policeman in a pub. To avoid conviction, he turned to Zurich. There he offered himself to the social democratic " Red Field Post ". On her behalf, he first went to Hamburg, then he worked in a mine in the Ruhr area, before he worked as a print smuggler in Offenburg. During the time when the Socialist Law was still in force, he worked in Zurich, London, Hamburg and Munich on the production and distribution of socialist literature. He came into conflict with the police and the judiciary several times. He was charged with smuggling printed matter in the “Freiburg Socialist Trial” in 1889, but acquitted.

In July 1889 he traveled to the International Workers' Congress in Paris.

In 1889 he enrolled in Halle as a student of agriculture, from 1890 he studied medicine in Strasbourg and Munich.

In 1896 he received a license to practice medicine and married the divorced Hope Bridges Adams. In 1899 he traveled with Israel Alexander Lasarewitsch Helphand alias " Parvus " for several months through Russia and in 1900 published together with him the travel report "Starving Russia: Travel impressions, observations and investigations".

The apartment and joint medical practice with his wife at Gabelsbergerstrasse 20a (now 46) in Munich also had a good reputation as the political salon of the Munich Social Democrats, was Lenin's cover address during his time in Munich, the editorial team of the Russian Iskra newspaper met there on Thursdays at tea time. August Bebel , Clara Zetkin , Anita Augspurg and Lida Gustava Heymann also frequented there .

He was active as a social-democratic municipal representative and was also a founding member of the Oberland section of the German Alpine Club (1904 to 1915 "Hut consultant" of the Lamsenjochhütte). In 1913 and 1914 he went on a world tour as a ship's doctor.

There are three photo albums from his life (an album for his hiking friends, an album for his niece and an album of the political environment) that his wife put together after his death.

Almost the couple's entire written estate was burned in a bombing raid during World War II. Scientific research by Marita Krauss on the biography of his wife resulted in new insights into his life.

He died in April 1915 of blood poisoning which he contracted while serving in the front in Valenciennes; his wife treated him herself in the field hospital.

literature

• Marita Krauss : The life plans and reform proposals of the doctor Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann (1855-1916). In: Elisabeth Dickmann, Eva Schöck-Quinteros (Hrsg.): Barriers and careers. The beginnings of women's studies in Germany. Documentation volume of the conference "100 Years of Women in Science" in February 1997 at the University of Bremen . Trafo Verlag Weist, Berlin 2000. pp. 143–157.
• Marita Krauss: The woman of the future. Dr. Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann (1855–1916), doctor and reformer . Buchendorfer Verlag, Munich 2002.
• Marita Krauss: "The new age with its new demands also demands a new gender". The doctor Dr. Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann and their demands on women in the 20th century . In: Frank Stahnisch / Florian Steger (eds.): Medicine, history and gender. Body-historical reconstructions of identities and differences . Steiner, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-515-08564-5 . Pp. 119-135.
• Marita Krauss: Hope. Dr. Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann - doctor and visionary. The biography . Volk Verlag, Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-937200-69-9 .
• Christine Kirschstein: Continued crimes against life. Causes and background of the investigation proceedings initiated in 1914 according to § 219 RSTGB against the Munich doctor Dr. Hope Bridges Adams-Lehmann . Haag + Herchen Frankfurt am Main 1992. ISBN 3-89228-871-2 .
• Marita Krauss in the book "Visual History: a study book by Gerhard Paul"
• Lehmann / Parvus: Starving Russia, travel impressions, observations and investigations, Stuttgart 1900
• Nick Brauns: bayern, supplement of the young world from November 18, 2006, Mr. Meyer from Kaiserstrasse, How Lenin prepared the fall of tsarism in Munich

filming

The life of his wife Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann was directed in 2008 by Martin Enlen with Heike Makatsch in the leading role and Martin Feifel in the role as Carl Lehmann as a two-part TV series under the title Dr. Hope - A woman doesn't give up filmed for ZDF . The film premiered on July 3, 2009 at the Munich Film Festival. It was first broadcast on television on the Arte channel on March 19, 2010. The screenwriters Torsten Dewi and Katrin Tempel published a “biographical novel” in 2009 as a book on the film.

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Lehmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ortrun Riha : Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann. For the 150th birthday on December 16, 2005 . In: Volker Schulte (Red.): Anniversaries 2005. People, events. 25 calendar pages for anniversaries of people and events at the University of Leipzig . University of Leipzig, Press Office, Leipzig 2005. ISBN 3-934178-43-XS 103-106 (PDF file; 1.02 MB). ( Memento from April 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Biography of Hope Adams Bridges Lehmann on FemBio.org
• SZ article about Prof. Dr. Marita Krauss and the copyright problem of the ZDF television program “Dr. Hope - A woman doesn't give up ”with Heike Makatsch . (PDF file; 113 kB) On: philhist.uni-augsburg.de, September 18, 2009. Retrieved September 27, 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ W. U. Eckart et al. a. (Ed.): Doctors Lexicon. 3. Edition. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2006, ISBN 3-540-29584-4 .
2. ↑ Katja Sebald: Alone among men. Spiegel.de One day on March 18, 2010.
3. ↑ See the website of the Munich Film Festival for Part 1 ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and part 2  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ! Retrieved December 7, 2009.   
4. ↑ Arte 7 days: Dr. Hope - A woman doesn't give up. ( Memento from March 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Torsten Dewi, Katrin Tempel: Dr. Hope. A woman doesn't give up. Germany's first female doctor . Piper, Munich / Zurich 2009. ISBN 978-3-492-25488-5 .
6. ↑ Oliver Hochkeppel: From Lenin to Nonsense. Who does the media truth about Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann, the first female doctor in Munich, belong to? In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 18, 2009. p. 41.