Elisabeth Müller (doctor)

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Elisabeth Müller (born June 22, 1895 in Hanover ; died October 1944 in the Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German general practitioner and pediatrician .

Life

“Dr. Elisabeth Müller Born 1895 Prohibited from working 1933 Escape 1933 Returned to Switzerland 1939 Deported July 23, 1942 Theresienstadt murdered in Auschwitz ”;
Stumbling block ; Lavesstrasse 64 in Hanover

Elisabeth Müller was born at the end of the 19th century as the daughter of a banker. After graduating from high school, she began studying medicine at the universities of Heidelberg , Göttingen and Munich in the middle of the First World War in 1915 . In autumn 1920 she passed her state examination at the University of Göttingen, where she also passed her doctoral examination. She received her medical license in 1922.

She settled in Hanover in 1925 as a specialist in childhood diseases. Their practice in the local Lavesstraße 64 talked Müller until shortly after the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933. After her because of their Jewish had been deprived of religious affiliation, the insurance approved, they had to close their practice. She temporarily went to Switzerland and worked in Geneva at the Pépinière Clinic . In 1935 she founded a home for Jewish children in Bollschweil in Baden .

Müller returned to Hanover in 1939 to head the Jewish hospital there as superior . On July 23, 1942, she was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto with all the doctors, nurses, patients and residents of the Jewish Hospital . According to tradition, she worked there as a head nurse in a hospital ward. In October 1944 she was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered there.

literature

  • Stumbling stone laying September 26, 2018, Lavesstraße 64, more detailed biography as PDF document of the state capital Hanover, urban culture of remembrance, 2018.
  • Hans Schadek: The Jewish children's home "Sonnenhalde" in Bollschweil near Freiburg 1935–1939. On the history of the home (I), the pediatrician Dr. med. Elisabeth Müller (II) and the commercial school teacher Dr. phil. Annerose Heitler (III) , PDF document from the Freiburg University Library on the alemannia-judaica.de website
  • Hans Schadek: persecution and extermination. Dr. med. Elisabeth Müller (1895 Hanover – 1944 Auschwitz) and her family. In: Schau-ins-Land: Annual issue of the Breisgau history association Schauinsland , issue 126 (2007), p. 221 ff .; Digitized version of the Freiburg University Library.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Raimund Dehmlow, Andreas Pagel (Red.): Jewish doctors in Hanover. Remembrance and Commemoration , ed. from the “Fates of Jewish Doctors in Hanover” working group in the Lower Saxony Medical Association , Hanover District Office, Hanover: “Fates of Jewish Doctors in Hanover” working group, 2008, p. 20; as a PDF document from netzwerk-erinnerungundzukunft.de
  2. ↑ Ernst Gottfried Lowenthal (Ed.): Dr. Elisabeth Mueller . In: Ders .: Probation in decline. A memorial book , ed. on behalf of the Council of Jews from Germany, London, [1. – 2. Tsd.], Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1965, p. 192; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mueller, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician, head of the Jewish hospital in Hanover and victim of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH October 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp