Ernst Delbanco

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Stumbling block in front of the UKE in Hamburg-Eppendorf

Ernst Delbanco (born February 21, 1869 in Hamburg ; † March 31, 1935 there ) was a German dermatologist .

Life and work as a medic

Stolperstein in Hamburg-Rotherbaum
Stolperstein in Hamburg's Edmund-Siemers-Allee

Ernst Delbanco was a son of the merchant Gustav Delbanco (1832-1893) and his wife Gitel (1837-1904). He had two younger brothers named Ludwig (1870-1935) and Walter (1875-1907). The ancestors of the originally Italian family can be found in the Hamburg address book since 1794 . Delbanco attended the scholars' school of the Johanneum , which he left with the Abitur in 1887. He then studied medicine at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , the University of Strasbourg and the University of Berlin . There he received his doctorate on March 25, 1892. On June 30, 1892 he received his license to practice medicine. At the time of the Hamburg cholera epidemic of 1892, he worked as a temporary doctor at the General Hospital St. Georg and then as a volunteer doctor at the General Hospital Eppendorf . In 1893 he worked for six months as a doctor on a ship that took him to the west coast of South America. He then volunteered at the Hygiene Institute in his hometown. From May 16, 1894 to May 1, 1895 he assisted the port doctor Bernhard Nocht . From May 9, 1895 he worked at the Pathological Institute of the University of Königsberg as an assistant to Ernst Neumann .

In September 1897 Delbanco returned to Hamburg as an assistant to the dermatologist Paul Gerson Unna . Unna ran a private "sanatorium for skin patients", which he founded in 1881. Delbanco trained as a specialist and then worked for two years as an assistant doctor in the “Special Department for Male Skin Diseases” at the Israelite Hospital . From June 3, 1898, he practiced as a resident “specialist for skin and sexual ailments” in Hamburg's old town. From 1909 he ran a group practice together with Wilhelm Haas (1878–1944) at Grosse Bleichen No. 27.

From 1901 to 1911 he co- edited the monthly notebooks for practical dermatology and from 1912 to 1933 edited the dermatological weekly journal . These contributions made him known internationally. He has also written articles for leading medical manuals. During the First World War , Delbanco volunteered as a war doctor in Bulgaria . From 1914 to 1916 he accompanied hospital trains in which he treated venereal diseases. He then worked as a senior physician at the Alexander Hospital in Sofia . He has received several Austrian, Bulgarian and Turkish awards for his commitment.

On July 20, 1921, he was appointed honorary professor for dermatology at the University of Hamburg . Since he wanted to support the employment of an external doctor, he had previously turned down the chair at the Hamburg Dermatology Clinic after a conversation with Bernhard Nocht. From August 1, 1929, Delbanco headed the department for skin and venereal diseases at AK Barmbek , which at the time had 580 beds. On the occasion of his 60th birthday, awards appeared in almost all Hamburg daily newspapers.

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After the National Socialists came to power , Delbanco's scientific and medical career ended. Since he was of the Jewish faith, he was considered a "non-Aryan". Due to the law to restore the civil service , he had to leave the AK Barmbek on July 22, 1933. On July 31 of the same year he lost his license to teach at the university and from 1933 was no longer allowed to work on the Dermatological Weekly .

Ernst Delbanco committed suicide with potassium cyanide in late March 1935 . His grave can be found in the Ohlsdorf Jewish Cemetery .
In Hamburg today three stumbling blocks remind of the former dermatologist.

Work in politics and associations

From 1903 he participated in the work of the Hamburg branch of the German Society for Combating Venereal Diseases (DGBG) and from 1909 onwards he dealt with legislative issues for their expert commission.

From 1915 to 1918 and from 1921 to 1927 Delbanco was a member of the committee of the German Central Committee for the Control of Tuberculosis . From 1912 to 1926 he sat on the board and in committees of the DGBG. He was involved as a paying member in the Association for Lupus Prevention , the Medical Association Hamburg and the German Pathological Society . For the deputation for the prison system he dealt with questions of the prison system on a voluntary basis. Delbanco was considered a supporter of abolitionism and belonged to the Hamburg branch of the international federation (association to combat immorality). He therefore advocated abolishing police controls on prostitutes and abolishing brothels. The latter came into force in 1921.

As a member of the DDP , Delbanco and Andreas Knack tried to intensify sex education and to improve the housing situation in Hamburg workers' accommodation. In 1925, together with the theologian Helmuth Schreiner , he called for the decision to prohibit brothels by imperial law and barracks prostitutes. The corresponding “Reich Law to Combat Venereal Diseases” came into force on October 1, 1927.

Honors

Ernst Delbanco received several awards for his scientific achievements. The Vienna Dermatological Society appointed him a corresponding member in 1905, followed by the Danish and German Dermatological Societies in 1923 and 1924 . In 1926, the Society of Swedish Doctors accepted him as a member. The Verological-Dermatological Society in Moscow accepted him in 1928 as a corresponding member, the Italian Society for Dermatology made him an honorary member in the same year.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ERNST DELBANCO in Stolpersteine ​​in Hamburg
  2. ↑ pdf Ilandkoppel , p. 96: ID 2487, grave location M 3 - 29, 0 urn
  3. ↑ Site plan of the Ohlsdorf Jewish cemetery
personal data
SURNAME Delbanco, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1935
Place of death Hamburg