Ernst Ritter (medic)
Ernst Ritter (born June 26, 1888 in Krakow , † August 4, 1981 ) was an Austrian doctor and politician of the Social Democratic Party .
Life
Ritter's father Emanuel Ritter, of Jewish descent, was a military doctor in Krakow. Subsequently, his father accepted a doctor's position in Hollabrunn . Ritter studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1913. He was a military doctor until the end of the war and then took over his father's practice in Hollabrunn. He was elected to the local council and from 1929 to 1934 was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in Hollabrunn. After the Anschluss , he and his wife Gladys emigrated via Denmark to India and on to Shanghai in 1939 , where he also worked as a doctor. Through his brother he received a visa to Venezuela in September 1940, where he was initially a doctor in Libertad and Orinocco, before becoming head of a department for schistosomiasis from 1945 to 1958 . In 1958 he returned to Hollabrunn. He recorded the period between 1938 and 1958 in memoirs.
Ritter is also the author of a review of the local history of Hollabrunn.
- Honors
- Knight of the Franz Joseph Order
- Golden Cross of Merit with the crown
- A street in Hollabrunn was named after him.
Works
- Ernst Ritter: That's how I experienced it , 1958 PDF
- Ernst Ritter: That's how it was once in Hollabrunn , in: Blickpunkt Hollabrunn , No. 1/1981 to 4/1982, summarized as a special issue 1982, Hollabrunn 1982
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alfred Fehringer: »You have to get away from here«. The Jewish community of Hollabrunn from 1850 to 1938. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85476-273-7 , pp. 120–121.
- ^ Herbert Fürnkranz: Mirror of a City: Street names in Hollabrunn , second, expanded edition, Hollabrunn 2002 PDF
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knight, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian politician (SPÖ), local researcher and doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1981 |