Ewald Fabian

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Ewald Fabian 1885-1944

Ewald Fabian (born November 4, 1885 in Berlin , † February 17, 1944 in New York City ) was a German dentist and secretary of the Association of Socialist Doctors . After 1933 he wrote under the pseudonym E. Silva.

Live and act

Ewald Fabian attended school in Greifswald , where he also studied dentistry . In 1907 he obtained his license to practice medicine and in 1920 his doctorate. As a supporter of Theodor Barth , he became a member of the Democratic Association in 1908 . In Wilmersdorf he joined the SPD in 1912 .

In 1914, when the war broke out, he was arrested by an Italian ship in Marseilles while on a Mediterranean voyage as an enemy alien in military service. Until 1918 he was interned as a civil prisoner in Carcassonne and in Ajaccio and was then exchanged for Switzerland because of illness . Here he joined the anti-war movement . In 1919 he returned to Berlin, where he became a member of the Spartakus , the USPD and the KPD . In 1926 he was expelled from the KPD . He later found a connection with the KPD-O . On November 23, 1931, he joined SAP as a founding member . From 1925 to 1933 he was secretary of the Association of Socialist Doctors and editor of the magazine Der Sozialistische Doktor .

In 1933, Ewald Fabian was withdrawn from the health insurance fund as a “state hostile dentist”. He was arrested and locked up in the ULAP Plötzensee . He was "ransomed" through his sister. On September 18, 1933, he managed to escape to Prague . There he practiced illegally at the dentist Karl Tamele, who was chairman of the Prague group of social democratic doctors. At the same time he set up the International Medical Bulletin , which he oversaw as secretary under the pseudonym E. Silva. He was supported by the Czech Minister of Health Ludwig Czech . After the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the German Wehrmacht in 1938, he fled to Paris . Here, too, he was able to practice an illegal dental activity in 1938/39. In 1939 he was interned in Paris. In November 1939 he managed to escape to the USA . He then worked as a packer in New York until his death in 1944.

Journal articles (selection)

In: The Socialist Doctor

  • About working hours in hospitals in Berlin. Volume I (1925), Issue 2–3 (July), p. 23 (digital copy)
  • The prince claims and the people's misery. Volume II (1926), Issue 1 (April), pp. 5–8 (digitized version)
  • To the Hohenzollern comparison! Volume II (1926). Issue 2–3 (November), pp. 9–11 (digitized version)
  • The rationalization of school dental care and school dental care in the city of Berlin. Volume II (1926). Issue 2–3 (November), pp. 48–49 (digitized version )
  • Reichswehr budget, social welfare and public health. Volume II (1927), Issue 4 (March), pp. 19-22 (digitized version)
  • Reactionary push against a children's home. Volume II (1927), Issue 4 (March), p. 38 (digitized version)
  • Dental treatment in public hospitals! Volume II (1927), Issue 4 (March), p. 40 (digitized version)
  • After the Reichstag in Dresden. Volume IV (1928), Issue 1–2 (August), pp. 1–3 (digitized version)
  • Armored cruiser and social misery. Volume IV (1928), Issue 3–4 (December), p. 35 (digitized version)
  • Reaction from the Breslau doctors' camp. Volume V (1929), Issue 2 (June), p. 78 (digitized version)
  • To the city council elections. Volume V (1929), Issue 3 (September), pp. 135-136 (digitized version )
  • Greetings from the Chemnitz Reichstag. Volume V (1929), Issue 4 (December), pp. 152–153 (digitized version )
  • The struggle for social security in France. Volume VI (1930), Issue 1 (February), pp. 15–16 (digitized version)
  • Dental claims. Volume VI (1930), Issue 2 (May), p. 79 (digitized version)
  • The prescription of the Nazi doctors. Volume VII (1931), Issue 1 (January), p. 22 (digitized version)
  • The Karlovy Vary Meeting of Socialist Doctors. Volume VII (1931), Issue 7 (July), pp. 190–198 (digitized version )
  • Ignaz Zadek †. Volume VII (1931), Issue 8–9 (August – September), pp. 215–216 (digitized version )
  • According to the dentist's choice. Volume VII (1931), Issue 12 (December), pp. 343-344 (digitized version )

In: International Medical Bulletin . Under the pseudonym E. Silva or Dr. Silva

  • Ce que nous voulons. What we want. Volume I (1934), Issue 1 (January), pp. 1–3 (digitized version)
  • Social situation and medical profession in the new Germany. Volume I (1934), Issue 6 (June), p. 93 (digitized version)
  • From German doctors. Volume I (1934), Issue 9 (September), pp. 129–130 (digitized version )
  • Abortions of pregnancy before German judges. Volume I (1934), Issue 10–11 (October – November), p. 149 (digitized version)
  • From the new German health policy. Volume II (1935), Issue 1 (January), pp. 1–3 (digitized version)
  • Blubo Public Health. Volume II (1935), Issue 2–3 (February – March), p. 22 (digitized version)
  • The fight against medical science in Germany. Volume II (1935), Issue 5–6 (May – June), pp. 65–67 (digitized version )
  • Doctors in the fight for freedom. Volume II (1935), Issue 7 (September), pp. 85–87 (digitized version )
  • The death of the social hygiene magazines in Germany. Volume II (1935), Issue 8–9 (November – December), p. 105 (digitized version)
  • Humanity in war. Volume III (1936), Issue 1 (January), p. 3 (digitized version)
  • The level of the new medical training in Germany. Volume III (1936), Issue 5–6 (June – July), p. 80 (digitized version)
  • Medical assistance in Spain. Volume III (1936), Issue 7–8 (August – September), p. 93 (digitized version)
  • Your racial hygiene. Volume III (1936), Issue 9-10 (November-December), p. 117 (digitized version)
  • On the National Socialist upheaval in medicine. Volume IV (1937), Issue 2–3 (March – April), p. 25 (digitized version)
  • From the health of the German people. Volume IV (1937), Issue 9-10 (December), p. 109 (digitized version)
  • The plight of young German doctors. Volume V (1938), Issue 3–4 (April – May), p. 29 (digitized version)
  • The struggle of the Nazis against medical science and against doctors. Volume V (1938), Issue 5–6 (July – August), p. 44 (digitized version)
  • Les médecins anglais et la tragédie tchèchoslovaque. Volume V (1938), Issues 7–8 (November – December), p. 62

literature

  • Charles W Brook. Making Medical History. In: Socialist health association, March 24, 1946 (digitized version)
  • Stephan Leibfried and Florian Tennstedt (eds.).
    • Professional bans and social policy 1933. The effects of the National Socialist seizure of power on the health insurance administration and the health insurance doctors. Analysis. Assault and self-help materials. Memories. (Working papers of the research focus on reproductive risks, social movements and social policy. No. 2. University of Bremen.) Research focus on reproductive risks, social movements and social policy University of Bremen, Bremen 1979, p. 106–128: Occupational bans and the "Association of Socialist Doctors" Here: p. 116
    • Georg Loewenstein. Municipal health care and socialist medical policy between the German Empire and National Socialism. Autobiographical, Biographical, and Health Policy Notes. (Working reports on buried alternatives in health policy 3) Univ. Bremen, Bremen 1980, p. 54
  • Kathleen M. Paerle and Stephan Leibfried (Eds.). Kate Frankenthal . The triple curse: Jewish, intellectual, socialist. Memories of a doctor in Germany and in exile. Campus, Frankfurt / NY 1981, p. 282 ISBN 3-593-32845-3

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personal data
SURNAME Fabian, Ewald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silva, E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dentist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1944
Place of death New York City