Felix Koenigsberger

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Felix Fritz Willi Königsberger (born February 21, 1884 in Berlin , † March 28, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German doctor who was involved in the " Working Group of Social Democratic Doctors " and in the organization of health insurance outpatient clinics.

life and work

Felix Königsberger was the son of the jeweler Adolf Königsberger. After attending school, he completed a medical degree at the universities of Berlin and Munich from 1904 . After completing his studies, he completed his medical internship at the Berlin City Hospital in 1909. In 1910 he was awarded a doctorate in Munich with his dissertation “The duration of the second birth period and its consequences for mother and child”. med. PhD . After receiving his license to practice medicine in 1910, Felix Königsberger worked as a general practitioner in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1911 . In 1918 he opened a laboratory for medical diagnostics and an X-ray laboratory in Berlin. In 1921 he was the head physician of the Diagnostic Institute of the Main Association of German Health Insurance Funds, and in 1923/24 he was chief physician of the outpatient clinics he organized with Albert Hohn. From 1924 he only worked in his practice and continued to run the laboratory. At the same time he was involved with Raphael Silberstein , Julius Moses , Alfred Grotjahn , Benno Chajes and Franz Karl Meyer-Brodnitz in the " Working Group of Social Democratic Doctors ". In 1932 he bought the Diagnostic Institute of the Main Association of German Health Insurance Funds.

After the National Socialist " seizure of power ", Königsberger fled to Paris in 1933. Königsberger was expatriated from the German Reich on November 2, 1939, and his doctorate was revoked by the University of Munich on January 26, 1940. After the invasion of the German Wehrmacht in France, he fled on to Allos . From there he was interned in the Drancy camp, deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in February 1944 and transferred to the Dachau concentration camp in October 1944 , where he perished at the end of March 1945.

literature

  • 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stefanie Harrecker: Degradierte Doctors: the revocation of the doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich during the time of National Socialism , 2007, p. 230
personal data
SURNAME Koenigsberger, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Königsberger, Felix Fritz Willi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1945
Place of death Dachau concentration camp