Ernst Steinitz (doctor)

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Ernst Steinitz (born March 25, 1881 in Beuthen / Upper Silesia , † February 1, 1942 in New York ) was a German doctor and art collector.

Life

family

Ernst Steinitz was the son of a businessman. In 1913 he married the painter and art critic Käte Steinitz , with whom he had three daughters.

Career

Ernst Steinitz studied medicine and then worked in Breslau , Dresden and Berlin . While still in the German Empire , he married Käthe Traumann before serving as an officer in the First World War. After the birth of his first daughter in 1915, he was transferred to Hanover in 1918 to take over the management of the military hospitals there as a medical officer. After his wife had followed him to Hanover, he settled as a specialist in Hanover on January 1, 1919 and opened a practice in Georgstrasse .

In 1922 Ernst Steinitz got a job as a senior doctor at the Jewish Hospital Siloah . Immediately after the seizure of power by the Nazis but was on March 31, 1933 Wilhelm Reich was on leave by the so-called "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ", finally released in May of the same year. In 1935 Steinitz emigrated - before his wife and daughters - via Holland and Israel to the USA , where he died in 1942 during the Second World War at the age of 60.

literature

  • llse Steinitz-Berg: The fate of the Steinitz family in the game of contemporary political and cultural history. In: Kate Steinitz. A documentation , catalog for the exhibition from October 3 to November 5, 1989 in the Sprengel-Museum Hannover, Hannover: Sprengel-Museum, 1989, ISBN 3-89169-051-7
  • Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic , at the same time a dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art , in the series Hanoverian Studies , series of the City Archives Hanover , Volume 5, Hanover: Hahn , 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , p. 350 and others.
  • Hugo Thielen : STEINITZ, (1) Ernst. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 348; online through google books
  • Hugo Thielen: Steinitz, (1) Ernst. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 601f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Hugo Thielen: STEINITZ, (1) ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Hugo Thielen: Steinitz, (2) Kate Trauman. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 602
personal data
SURNAME Steinitz, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and art collector, emigrant to the USA before the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Beuthen , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1942
Place of death new York