Elisabeth Hoffa
Elisabeth Hoffa (born May 14, 1889 in Würzburg , † 1988 in Leeds , England ) was a German doctor and daughter of the orthopedic surgeon Albert Hoffa .
Life
Elisabeth "Lizzi" Hoffa studied medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich and Würzburg and completed her practical year at the children's clinic in Dortmund and at the children's hospital in Hamburg-Altona . In 1921 she received her license to practice medicine. From 1924 to 1933 she was a resident doctor in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and was elected to the Medical Association there in 1927. From 1930 to April 1933 she was chairwoman of the Association of German Doctors (BdÄ) and in 1930 a member of the doctors' commission of the German Swimming Association .
As a Jew, Hoffa was revoked according to the law to restore the civil service of April 7, 1933. In the same year she was dismissed from all offices "because of not purely Aryan descent" and had to give up medical work in 1934. She then emigrated to England and opened a massage practice in London in 1935 . From 1939 she worked there as a General Practitioner (GP). Hoffa died in Leeds in 1988 .
source
- E. Seidler: Jewish paediatricians 1933-1945: disenfranchised, fled, murdered . Karger Publishers, 2007. ISBN 3805582846 (p. 161)
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| SURNAME | Hoffa, Elisabeth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoffa, Lizzi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1988 |
| Place of death | Leeds , England |