Ernst Thesing

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ernst August Curt Oswald Thesing (born March 13, 1874 at Gut Wickerau (Baumgarten community) near Barten , Rastenburg district , East Prussia province ; † January 3, 1954 in Magdeburg ) was a German doctor , school doctor for the city of Magdeburg, and a social democratic city councilor there as well as an author . He was dismissed from all offices by the National Socialists in 1933 for political reasons .

family

He was born as the eldest son of the lawyer , secret judiciary , court director and Freemason Robert Emil August Thesing, who was a district judge at the time and was married to Martha, née Bredschneider. On October 23, 1875, the birth of a (further) son of the district judge Thesing was recorded in Barten. The biologist Curt Thesing could be a relative of Ernst Thesing.

Ernst Thesing's wife Agnes (born May 7, 1877), née Podestà, died at the age of 52 on June 2, 1929. She taught English and French and worked as a painter. She was friends with the then well-known Magdeburg artist Marie Klara “Marianne” Rusche (1878–1959).

schooldays

Ernst Thesing passed his matriculation examination in 1892 at the Prussian main cadet institute in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin. In 1894 his father was elected Lord Mayor of Tilsit [s. Tilsit's (Lord) Mayor until 1945 ], an office he held until 1900. At the same time his father officiated as master of the chair of the St. Johannis Lodge "Irene".

Education

Museum Almanac Marburg Students , 1901

Although his father had mapped out a Prussian officer career for him, Ernst Thesing left the Prussian army at his own request with the rank of lieutenant and instead studied medicine at the Philipps University in Marburg and at the Albertus University in Königsberg from 1895 to 1901 . In the year of his doctorate he was co-editor of the Marburg Musenalmanac .

Act

He initially worked as an assistant at the Marburg Hygiene Institute (today: Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene) in the old surgical clinic on Pichelstein under the institute director and Nobel Prize winner Emil von Behring and as a ship's doctor .

In Marburg he joined the SPD . In 1904 he accepted an invitation to Magdeburg issued by the Social Democratic editor and writer Paul Bader , and settled there as a general practitioner.

Thesing then worked as a Magdeburg school doctor and built up Magdeburg's lung care due to the widespread tuberculosis (TB) among children . Between 1907 and 1913 he published in the so-called workers health library of the Berliner Vorwärts- Verlag.

From June 13th to 15th, 1919 Thesing took part in the 8th German Pacifist Congress of the German Peace Society and the Central Office for International Law in the Prussian Manor in Berlin. In doing so, he formulated the motion for a resolution: “The Congress recognizes that the old German and Austro-Hungarian governments collectively are to blame for the outbreak of the world war.” His motion was granted.

On June 22nd, 1920 he conferred during a political meeting in Magdeburg's Artushof at Johannisstrasse 3, among others with Harry Graf von Kessler , who was speaking there , with Curt Ramdohr (1876–1945, 1931–1933 President of the Magdeburg Chamber of Commerce) and Georg Schümer .

From 1922 to 1933 he was elected as a city ​​councilor of the Magdeburg SPD and from 1929 as an unpaid city ​​councilor . He was also an elected board member of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and the Medical Association of the Province of Saxony .

Thesings health and social political engagement was ended abruptly when he who had come to power Nazis removed in 1933 from all offices. From this point on he had to confine himself to his own medical practice, but was able to provide active assistance to both Jewish citizens and, from 1940, Belgian and French forced laborers.

After the end of the Second World War , Thesing was active for the freelance doctors from 1947 to 1954 and was elected as the first chairman of the auditing office within the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB).

He died at the age of 79 and was buried in Magdeburg's Westfriedhof .

Publications

From medical superstition , 1907
  • Duel - honor - "serious"! , Oscar Ehrhardt, Marburg 1896 OCLC 312750690
  • with Wolfgang Lehmus as co-editor: Musenalmanach Marburger Studenten , NG Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1901 OCLC 162647475 ; Illustrations: Otto Arndts
  • On the question, “Is the cholelithiasis to be treated surgically or internally?” Statistical and theoretical-critical , inaugural dissertation, H. Bauer, Marburg 1901 OCLC 748649356
  • From Medical Superstition , Workers' Health Library , Volume 12, Forward, Berlin 1907 OCLC 753691671
  • Epilogue in: Adolf Maetze: Festive thoughts of a worker in poems and sketches , Peters, Magdeburg, 1911 OCLC 72851245
  • The occupational diseases of bricklayers and construction workers , Workers' Health Library , Volume 13, Vorwärts, Berlin 1913 OCLC 72652000

lithography

A lithograph depicting Thesing dates back to 1920 . This was created by the Magdeburg graphic artist and painter Bruno Beye shortly before he moved to Berlin.

Honor

The city of Magdeburg commemorates Ernst Thesing and other local politicians who were discriminated against, robbed of their office, persecuted, deported to concentration camps, exiled or murdered during the National Socialist era , on an engraved stainless steel panel attached to a stele on the town hall extension between Hartstrasse and Johanniskirche, Alter Markt 6.

Agnes and Ernst Thesing's graves are located in the Magdeburg Westfriedhof .

literature

  • Erich Jeske: Funeral speech for Ernst Thesing , undated speech manuscript, in: Archives of the Institute for Nursing History Qualzow (Plegehistorische Sammlung Wolff)
  • Helmke Schierhorn / Thomas Klemm: Tombs of important doctors in Magdeburg In: Magdeburger Blätter , City Council of Magdeburg / Erich Weinert University of Education, Magdeburg 1984, p. 86f. OCLC 21366598
  • Martin Wiehle: Magdeburg personalities (= Magdeburg series of publications), ImPuls-Verlag, Magdeburg 1993, ISBN 978-3-9101-4606-8 , p. 146

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Library of Medicine Catalog , Vol. 3, Judd & Detweiler, Washington, DC, 1960, p. 538.
  2. ↑ a b c d Press information from the state capital Magdeburg , July 20, 2001, at: presse-service.de
  3. ↑ Twenty-second annual report on the effectiveness of the Prussian Provincial Association for teaching the blind in Königsberg i. Pr. In 1868 (PDF file; 2.1 MB), p. 54, on: bibliotekaelblaska.pl
  4. ↑ a b Egon Janz: The Tilsiter Masonic Lodges in the 19th Century in: 27. Tilsiter Rundbrief (PDF file; 3.2 MB), edition 1997/98, ed. vd Stadtgemeinschaft Tilsit e. V., Kiel, November 1998, pp. 44-48, on: tilsit-stadtundland.de
  5. ^ Advertisement with the announcement of the funeral service in the main chapel of the Magdeburg Westfriedhof by Dr. Ernst Thesing , in: Volksstimme - daily newspaper of the Social Democratic Party in the administrative district of Magdeburg , Volume 40, No. 128, Wednesday, June 5, 1929, pages not numbered (p. 6).
  6. ↑ a b c Magdeburg cemeteries and burial sites (PDF file, 4.7 MB), issue 60 (excerpt), pp. 102-103, on: magdeburg.de
  7. ^ Harry Graf Kessler, Hans-Ulrich Simon, Werner Volke, Bernhard Zeller : Das Tagebuch 1880-1937, Volume 7: 1919-1923 , Klett-Cotta-Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-7681-9817-2 , p 1062.
  8. ↑ Magdeburg cemeteries and burial sites (PDF file, 4.7 MB), issue 60 (excerpt), pp. 110–111, on: magdeburg.de
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g Horst-Peter Wolff: Ernst August Curt Oswald Thesing , on: ovgu.de
  10. ↑ Pocket calendar for administrative officials for the year 1900 , seventeenth year, second part, p. 52.
  11. ↑ Werner Schwarz: From the musical life in Tilsit around the turn of the century - The guest book of the Royal Music Director Peter Wilhelm Wolff (PDF file; 90 kB), p. 2, on: kultur-in-ostpreussen.de
  12. ↑ Heinrich Dorn (arr.): History of the Lodge "Irene" zu Tilsit - For the 75th anniversary of the Lodge on February 26, 1899
  13. ^ Heinrich Dorn: On the history of the "Irene" zu Tilsit lodge from 1899 to 1924 - for the 100th anniversary of the lodge on February 26, 1924 . Reyländer & Son, Tilsit 1924.
  14. ^ Ernst Thesing, Wolfgang Lehmus (ed.): Marburger Musenalmanach , NG Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1901 OCLC 162647475
  15. ↑ Hans H. Lauer: The Hygiene Institute in Marburg - a look back on a hundred years of its history (PDF file; 293 kB), on: uni-marburg.de
  16. ↑ a b In 1932 the city councilor and general practitioner Dr. med. Ernst Thesing with his practice at Jakobstrasse 43 I. and his private residence at the adjacent Neustädter Strasse 1 in Magdeburg's address book, Part 1, p. 346.
  17. ^ Helmuth von Gerlach: Eighth German Pacifist Congress of the German Peace Society and the Central Office for International Law - negotiation report . Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte, Charlottenburg 1919, pp. 36, 67, 72, 78, 176, 177.
  18. ↑ Ramdohr, Curt , on: ovgu.de
  19. ^ Harry Graf Kessler, Hans-Ulrich Simon, Werner Volke, Bernhard Zeller: Das Tagebuch 1880-1937, Volume 7: 1919-1923 , Klett-Cotta-Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-7681-9817-2 , p 327.
personal data
SURNAME Thesing, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thesing, Ernst August Curt Oswald (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, city physician, school doctor, city councilor, city councilor and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Wickerau near Barten , Rastenburg district , East Prussia province
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1954
Place of death Magdeburg