Ernst Kalmus

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Signature of Dr. Ernst Kalmus

Ernst Kalmus (born January 1, 1874 in Berlin ; † 1959 in Kibbutz Jawne ) was a German neurologist from Hamburg .

Life

Ernst Kalmus was born in Berlin as the son of a banker and attended the Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium there, where he passed his Abitur in 1891. Since 1892 he was a member of the Young Israel group . He studied medicine in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1895 with a thesis on spinal cord diseases in diabetes mellitus . He then worked at the Berlin Gutzmann'schen Poliklinik for speech disorders. In 1895 Kalmus founded the local Zionist group in Breslau and was a member of the presidium of the Association of Jewish Students. Since 1898 he was a member of the Zionist Congress . From 1900 Kalmus worked as an assistant at the "State Insane Asylum" in Lübeck .

from: Altonaer Nachrichten , July 20, 1904, p. 4

In 1904 Kalmus settled in Hamburg as a specialist for the nervous and mentally ill. His practice was in the building Esplanade 23. In 1911 he married Agnes, b. Little feather. In 1911 their daughter Ruth Kalmus was born. Ernst Kalmus was chairman of the Zionist local group Hamburg-Altona from 1905 to 1910 and was on the board of the Talmud Tora School . As a participant in World War I , he was awarded the Iron Cross in a field hospital at the end of December 1915 . Kalmus was secretary in the representative college of the Jewish community in Hamburg for several years until 1933.

Kalmus was arrested in early 1933, and in the middle of the year he emigrated to Palestine , where he continued to work in medicine.

Private library

Ownership stamp of Dr. med. Ernst Kalmus

A total of five volumes of the Zionist magazine Palestine were found in the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart from Ernst Kalmus's private library . These are all marked with Ernst Kalmus's stamp of ownership.

Publications

  • About spinal cord disease in diabetes mellitus. Dissertation University of Berlin 1895.
  • A case of trumpet stutter. In: Neurological Centralblatt. Leipzig, 19th year, 1900, pp. 448–452, 505–509. ( Online in archive.org).
  • Divorce in the case of induced insanity, explained in a report. From the state insane asylum in Lübeck. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases . Berlin, Volume 35, 1902, pp. 188-204. ( Online in archive.org).
  • National Conservative! In: Jüdische Presse , Vol. 28, 1897, No. 37, Berlin September 15, 1897, pp. 395–397 ( Online; PDF , Compact Memory ).
  • The school policy of the municipality . In: Gemeindeblatt der Deutsch-Israelitische Gemeinde zu Hamburg , Vol. 3, 1927, No. 10, October 10, 1927, pp. 1-3 ( Online; PDF , Compact Memory).
  • On the school policy of the community . In: Gemeindeblatt der Deutsch-Israelitische Gemeinde zu Hamburg , Vol. 4, 1928, No. 1, January 10, 1928, pp. 1–2.
  • Electoral reform proposals . In: Gemeindeblatt der Deutsch-Israelitische Gemeinde zu Hamburg , vol. 5, 1929, no. 2, February 12, 1929, pp. 2–3.

literature

  • Kalmus, Ernst, Dr. med. In: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 182.
  • Kalmus, Ernst. In: Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the precursors to the middle of the 20th century. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-598-11196-9 , Volume 2, Haab-Otto, p. 688.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alma Kreuter: Kalmus, Ernst. In: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. Volume 2, Saur, Munich 1996.
  2. ↑ The Iron Cross . In: Neue Hamburger Zeitung . Vol. 20, No. 661 (evening edition). Hamburg December 30, 1915, p. 7 ( Online ; PDF from The European Library [accessed September 17, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Raubgutforschung Wurttemberg State Library Stuttgart .
personal data
SURNAME Kalmus, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1959
Place of death Kibbutz Jawne