Curt Bejach

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Stumbling stone at Landhaus Bejach , Bernhard-Beyer-Straße 12, in Berlin-Wannsee
Landhaus Bejach , architect Erich Mendelsohn
Bernhardt Beyer Str. 12 Haus.jpg

Curt Dietrich Manfred Bejach (born December 20, 1890 in Jena ; † October 31, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German medic and from 1922 to 1933 the chief city doctor in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

Life

Bejach came from a family of doctors of Jewish origin. After completing his school career, he studied medicine and dentistry at the universities of Berlin , Munich and Königsberg from 1910 to 1915 . After the outbreak of the First World War , he volunteered for service in a Königsberg field aid hospital. After the end of the war , Bejach obtained his doctorate in 1918/1919 in Königsberg. med. with a social hygiene topic. The qualified social medicine specialist and internist also passed the state examination to become a surgical dentist.

From 1919 he worked as a city doctor in Nowawes and was then head city doctor in Berlin-Kreuzberg from 1922 to 1933.

In 1925 he founded the health center on Urban for the purpose of promoting social hygiene and health education. It was the first municipal center for preventive medicine and health education in Berlin .

In 1927/28 he had Erich Mendelsohn build his house in Steinstücke (Bernhard-Beyer-Straße 12), in which the UFA classic Die Drei von der Gasstelle was filmed in 1930 .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Bejach was dismissed as a medical officer in April 1933 for political and racist reasons and also lost his position as a lecturer at the Berlin Social Women's Schools. In September 1938, his license to practice medicine was revoked. Before that, he had to forcibly sell his home in 1936. In the end, Bejach was only allowed to practice as a so-called practitioner. During the Second World War he had to do forced labor in the Britz forest camp in Brandenburg. On 10 January 1944 he was with the 99th Age transport from the freight station Berlin-Moabit to the Theresienstadt ghetto in and from there on September 29, 1944 Auschwitz deported , where he was murdered. His wife Hedwig Bejach, née Ottow, died of tuberculosis in 1931 ; In 1939 he was able to send his two younger daughters Helga and Irene on one of the Kindertransporte to England , where they were accepted into the family of Richard Attenborough . The older daughter survived as a forced laborer. Bejach tried in vain to get a visa for the USA for himself.

Fonts (selection)

The social tasks of the doctor in rehabilitating craftsmen and industrial workers who were severely damaged by war. Braunschweig 1919

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Curt Bejach  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin houses: The sun should look in here, not the Gestapo tagesspiegel.de
  2. ↑ http://www.berliner-woche.de/kreuzberg/bildung/ausstellung-wuerdigt-haben-des-arztes-curt-bejach-d89327.html
  3. ↑ https://www.berlin.de/ba-friedrichshain-kreuzberg/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2015/pressemitteilung.395044.php
personal data
SURNAME Bejach, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bejach, Kurt Dietrich; Bejach, Curt Dietrich Manfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicians and victims of National Socialist rule
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp