Esther Eugenie Klee-Rawidowicz

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Esther Eugenie Klee-Rawidowicz (born March 14, 1900 in Bonn , † November 19, 1980 in Waltham , USA ) was a German biologist.

Life and activity

Eugenie Klee was the daughter of the lawyer and Zionist Alfred Klee and his wife Teresa Klee, nee. Stargardt. Her younger sister was Ruth Klee, who was married to Hans Goslar , the long-time press chief of the Prussian state government. The father died in Westerborg concentration camp in 1943 , while the mother and brother-in-law died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the spring of 1945, shortly before the liberation of this camp by the Allies . One of her two nieces is Hannah Pick-Goslar , who was Anne Frank's best friend and who became known through the publication of Anne's diary.

Klee studied biology and earned a doctorate in this field. Since 1926 she was married to the philosopher Simon Rawidowicz , whose name she adopted as part of a double name. The marriage resulted in a son, the author Benjamin CI Ravid.

From 1925 to 1927 Klee-Rawidowicz was employed as an assistant at Rhoda Erdmann's Institute for Experimental Cell Research at Berlin University. She then worked until 1933 as head of the tissue engineering laboratory at the Institute for Cancer Research at Berlin University for cancer researcher Ferdinand Blumenthal. The main focus of her work was research on cancer tissue cultures; She presented various publications in this area.

After the National Socialists came to power , Klee-Rawidowicz emigrated to England with her husband. On March 28, 1933, she had received notice of termination of her employment from the Charité management . In 1934 she got a job as a researcher at King's College, University of London. In 1948 the family moved to the USA.

In Germany, Klee-Rawidowicz, like her husband, was placed on the special wanted list GB by the Reich Security Main Office in the spring of 1945 , a directory of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British island by the German Wehrmacht, were automatically and primarily located by special commandos of the SS should be made and arrested.

Fonts

  • Studies on the genesis of blood macrophages and related cell forms and their behavior in in vitro culture I. Communication. Normal and leukemic human blood . In: Z Krebsforsch , 1928, 27: 167-194. (with Hans Hirschfeld )
  • On the question of the "mitogenic" induction of warm-blooded cells , in: Z Krebsforsch , 1931; 34: 518 - 528 (with Arthur Lasnitzky)
  • Cold-blooded tissue in tissue culture (= Abderhalden's Handbook of Biological Working Methods, Department 5, Part 1), Berlin 1927 (together with Rhoda Erdmann)
  • Cytological investigations on sarcoma tissue in in vitro culture. Z Krebsforsch 1929; 30: 406-427 (with Hans Hirschfeld)
  • The question of specific morphological features of the tumor cell, investigated using slices and in vitro cultures. Z Krebsforsch 1930; 32: 139–145 (with Hans Hirschfeld)
  • Generation of malignant tumors by transferring them from the embryonic tissue , in: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift No. 58, 1932, pp. 1439-1440.
  • Experimental generation of malignant mouse tumors by transferring embryonic cells to tarred animals , in: Zeitschrift für Krebsforschung 1932; 39: 35-51.
  • Growth and sugar consumption of tissue cultures. Vhlg Gesell Digestive Metabolism Kr, Xi. Conference in Vienna 1932, Leipzig 1933, 153-155 (with Martin Goldner)

literature

  • Harro Jenss, Peter Reinicke: Ferdinand Blumenthal, fighter for progressive cancer medicine and cancer care. Jewish miniatures, Volume 128, Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2012, pp. 30–31.
  • From the exception to the everyday: Women at the Berlin University Unter den Linden , 2003, p. 125.
  • Alexander Altmann : Obituary for Esther Eugenie Klee-Rawidowicz. In: AA Greenbaum / I. Ivry: Thoughts and Actions Essays in Memory of Simon Rawidowicz on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of His Death. Tel Aviv 1983, p. 15f.
  • Ernst Gottfried Lowenthal. Alfred Klee. In: Probation in decline. A memorial book. Stuttgart 1965, 94-97.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Rawidowicz on the special wanted list GB , reproduction on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London.

Web links

  • Esther Eugenie Klee - Rawidowicz at GeDenkOrt.Charite, Charité website
personal data
SURNAME Klee-Rawidowicz, Esther Eugenie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klee, Eugenie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1980
Place of death Waltham , USA