Clemens Weisker

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Memorial for Weisker in Gera, Lortzingstrasse

Clemens Hermann Weisker (born May 11, 1863 in Schleiz ; † December 4, 1919 in Stadtroda ) was a German general practitioner and committed social politician in Untermhaus (district of Gera from 1919 ) and a member of the state parliament of the Principality of Reuss younger line .

biography

Weisker was born as the eldest son of the court confectioner Heinrich Julius Weisker (1833-1892) and his wife Emmeline Jacobine, nee. Count (1839-1905). He had three other siblings. At the age of 20, he enrolled in medicine at the University of Leipzig . He studied there for over four years, in the meantime also at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , and during his studies he worked as an assistant at various Leipzig university and private clinics.

In 1887/88 he received his doctorate with Felix Birch-Hirschfeld . In the same year he settled in Gera as a doctor on the recommendation of Karl Theodor Liebe , to whom he was indirectly related. In the next year disputes followed with the Gera doctors' association, so that he went to the neighboring Unterermhaus , which at that time was still an independent village. On August 11, 1891, he married Adelheid Henriette Marie Piegler, a granddaughter of the Schleiz factory owner Heinrich Gottfried Piegler ; the two had four children together.

Induced by the unsustainable conditions in the hospitals, he formulated a memorandum to the Princely District Office in 1894, which also took statistical evaluations into account, and later even founded a non-profit building association in the light of the persistent supply problems and hygiene conditions.

In mid-January 1895 the couple Louis (1825–1904) and Christiane Schlutter founded the “Land District Hospital Foundation of the Schlutter Family”, which was accompanied by considerable disputes. On behalf of the foundation, Weisker developed the construction plans and supported the implementation. The architect was the Royal Building Councilor Heino Schmieden . In the years that followed, this resulted in the Milbitz Er Heilanstalten, originally a lung clinic, of which he became head “for life”. Shortly after the occupation for life became known, the Gera Medical Association sent a memorandum to the Hereditary Prince Heinrich XXVII. Reuss . Weisker responded with a memorandum that led to a renewed dispute with the Gera Medical Association. The opening of the Milbitzer Heilanstalten took place on November 11, 1899. After disputes with the founder and the hospital commission, Weisker was fired after only two years. Then he worked again as a resident doctor.

After the death of Empress Elisabeth von Oesterreich , he and a doctor friend of hers wanted to purchase the Achilleion villa on Corfu in order to set up a sanatorium there. However, the Viennese court did not respond to his offer.

Weisker was a member of the NLP . In 1906 he declared his candidacy for the Reichstag , but withdrew in favor of the unity candidate Max Horn , with whom he had already worked together legally on the foundation deed for the Milbitzer Heilanstalten. A year later he ran for the Reuss Younger Line state parliament, but lost the vote against Wilhelm Leven . Nevertheless, he ran again in 1910, only narrowly missed the entry into the state parliament , but was able to move up at the end of 1912, since the long-time president of the state parliament and party friend Ludwig Walther Fürbringer (1830-1913) withdrew his mandate. In 1913 he ran again for the state parliament and was able to move in again.

Weisker got involved in Gera for the construction of a garden city based on the English model. In 1911 he initiated a garden city exhibition at the Rutheneum grammar school (now the Goethe grammar school ). In the same year he founded the non-profit building association for Reuss j together with Professor August Uhl († 1927) . L. , on whose board he was elected. For the construction of the garden city, he constantly sought low-interest capital from the Gera manufacturers. From 1912, based on Weisker's ideas, the new Gera district, Heinrichsgrün, was the first garden city in Thuringia.

A good year before his death he was diagnosed with vertebral syndrome. A four-month stay in a sanatorium in Bad Blankenburg was unsuccessful. In the spring of 1919 he was admitted to the convalescent house in Stadtroda, where he died in December of a heart failure as a result of his illness.

He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .

Appreciation

In 1926, Handelplatz in Heinrichsgrün was renamed Dr.-Weisker-Platz and renamed back in 1950. For his 67th birthday, a memorial stone was unveiled on May 11, 1930 in the Heinrichsgrün district of Gera.

In 2005, the proposed name for a new sports building as the Dr. Clemens Weisker sports facility was rejected. The naming of a new path in Dr. – Weisker – Steg was also later rejected. A Gera tram locomotive has been bearing his name in his honor since 2008 .

Works (selection)

  • Pathological relationships of the renal ligaments to the gallbladder and its excretory ducts . Dissertation, Schmidt's yearbooks of domestic and foreign entire medicine, volumes 219-220, Hirzel , 1888, p. 249 ff.
  • The moral and material hardship of the German doctors and a tragedy from their club life. Gera-Untermhaus, 1895. A reply from Dr. Weisker in the Light of Truth , 1895.
  • The renovation of Groß-Gera . XI. Princely Reuss-Geraer Zeitung, 1912.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Weißker: History of the Weißker family. Dresden: Gärtnersche Buchdr. [1910], pp. 160-161.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Weber (Ed.): Sanitätsrat Dr. med. Clemens Weisker: doctor, client, social politician; a picture of life. Self-published, Gera 2009 (can be ordered on CD from Thuringian University and State Library Jena; call number 2009 P 33).
  3. ↑ Hans Embersmann: Gera: History of the city in words and pictures . Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-326-00225-4 , p. 124 ( google.de [accessed on November 26, 2019]).
  4. ↑ German medical weekly . Georg Thieme Verlag, 1895, p. 440 ( google.de [accessed on November 26, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Hans Embersmann: Gera: History of the city in words and pictures . Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-326-00225-4 , p. 123 ( google.de [accessed on November 26, 2019]).
  6. ^ A b Oleg Peters: Heino Schmieden: Life and Work of the Architect and Builder 1835–1913 . Lukas Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86732-169-3 , pp. 344 ( google.de [accessed November 26, 2019]).
  7. ^ A b Albert Guttstadt: Hospital Lexicon for the German Empire: The institutional welfare for the sick and infirm and the hygienic facilities of the cities in the German Empire at the beginning of the 20th century . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-151626-4 , p. 837 ( google.de [accessed November 26, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Die Vogelwelt: magazine for bird protection and ornithology . Duncker & Humblot, 1901 ( google.de [accessed November 26, 2019]).
  9. ↑ German medical weekly . Georg Thieme Verlag, 1895, p. 540 ( google.de [accessed on November 26, 2019]).
  10. ^ A b Ferdinand fighters: The industrialized city: Gera around 1900 . TWENTYSIX, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7407-0232-8 ( google.de [accessed November 26, 2019]).
  11. ^ Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors: Business report of the board . 1913, p. 169 ( google.de [accessed on November 26, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Clemens Weisker memorial stone. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
  13. ↑ http://www.gvbgera.de/unternehmen/fahrzeuge/strassenbahnen/namenspaten-der-geraer-strassenbahnen/
personal data
SURNAME Weisker, Clemens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weisker, Clemens Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general practitioner and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleiz
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1919
Place of death Stadtroda