Ernst Brieger

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Ernst Max Brieger also Ernest Max Brieger (born 1891 in Breslau ; died January 31, 1969 ) was a German-British medic.

Life and activity

Ernst Brieger was one of four children of the human medicine doctor Oskar Brieger and his wife Hedwig, nee. Lion, and grew up in an assimilated and wealthy Jewish family. All children received a careful upbringing, supported by private educators. His brother Peter Brieger became an art historian, his sister Käthe Stern an educator, her son Fritz Stern a historian.

Brieger's research focus was tuberculosis . Until 1933 he was the only member from Germany in the International Tuberculosis Committee.

From 1921 to 1934 Brieger was the chief physician of the Municipal Tuberculosis Hospital in Breslau-Herrnprotsch. At the same time he was a private lecturer at the University of Wroclaw.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in spring 1933, Brieger was politically marginalized due to his Jewish descent. Due to his participation in the First World War, however, he was initially protected against dismissal from civil service, as provided for by the law for the restoration of the civil service for Jews, according to an exception regulation that contained this law for war veterans.

At the end of the 1930s, Brieger was classified as an important target by the National Socialist police forces: in the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus considered particularly dangerous or important, which is why they should be in the case A successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht should be located and arrested by the occupying troops following special SS commandos with special priority.

In 1934 Brieger emigrated to Great Britain, where he became a researcher at Papworth Hall Tuberculosis Hospital in Cambridge. Here he supervised in particular the tuberculosis settlement Papworth (Papworth community). From 1939 he was interned as an enemy alien .

In 1946 his main work was published, which presented the results of a long-term study of the health development of the residents of the settlement.

family

Brieger was married to Käthe Friedenthal.

Fonts

  • The iron in blood , in: Journal for physical chemistry , 78 (1912), pp. 582-628.
  • Physical preliminary remarks on the fever theory , 1917.
  • The conversion of institutional welfare in tuberculosis sanctuaries and hospitals, aftercare and workshop settlements , 1928.
  • Case reports on the localization of infiltrates in children , 1934.
  • After-care and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice 1937.
  • The Papworth Families: A 25 Years Survey , 1946.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 1931, Col. 313.
  • Ernest Max Brieger, 1891-1969. in: Leprosy review. : Volume 40, Issue 4. LEPRA, London, 1969, p. 256.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Brieger is mentioned in Fritz Stern's Memories Five Germany and One Life , 2007.
  2. ↑ [1] .
  3. ^ Ernst Brieger in the database Britain, Enemy Aliens and Internees
personal data
SURNAME Brieger, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brieger, Ernst Max (full name); Brieger, Ernest Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1969