Friedrich Jacobs (medical doctor)

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Memorial plaque on the house, Fanningerstraße 32, in Berlin-Lichtenberg

Friedrich Adalbert Jacobs (born May 11, 1889 in Saint Petersburg , † November 1, 1964 in Maidenhead ) was a German gynecologist who was best known for setting up the first maternity ward in Berlin-Lichtenberg Hospital in 1920.

Life

Jacobs, who had studied medicine in Strasbourg , worked after his license to practice medicine and doctorate at the University of Strasbourg, first as an assistant doctor at the Medical University Clinic in Strasbourg, then he took a position at the Pharmacological Institute in Göttingen and at Paul Straßmann's private clinic in Berlin . From 1914 to 1918 Friedrich Jacobs worked at the University Women's Clinic of the Charité under the direction of Ernst Bumm . By 1920 he perfected his professional knowledge at the Brandenburg Women's Clinic in Brandenburg an der Havel and taught at the midwifery training facility in Berlin-Neukölln . Finally, in 1920, he took up a position as a ward doctor in the Lichtenberg Municipal Hospital and took up his apartment at Möllendorffstraße 7/8 in Lichtenberg.

Here Jacobs initiated the establishment of a first maternity ward , which opened on April 1, 1920. It was located on the third floor of an isolation pavilion and had 12 beds each for mothers and newborns. In the year it opened, 458 children were born here, and 612 newborns were counted the following year. (The delivery in the hospital under specialist supervision had started after the First World War , for which birth centers were set up.) Soon the Lichtenberg hospital became known in Berlin for this medical achievement, the ward received better rooms and more beds.

Friedrich Jacobs, registered in the Berlin address book in 1925 as a gynecologist and obstetrician , was married to the pediatrician Toni Jacobs (1888–1973). After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he was asked to separate from his Jewish wife. After he refused, the new rulers put him into retirement and his wife was banned from working . Her son and three daughters were accepted as refugees in Great Britain in 1938/39, their parents' emigration failed because the war began . They survived in Berlin. After the end of the Second World War, Friedrich Jacobs was appointed Medical Director of the Lichtenberg Hospital and held this position from July 22, 1945 to 1948. Toni and Friedrich Jacobs then moved to England with their children .

Appreciation

The Lichtenberg District Office honored the gynecologist in 2010 when it named a street after him in the Rummelsburger Bucht development , the Friedrich-Jacobs-Promenade .

In November 2014, a memorial plaque was installed in the foyer of the Sana-Klinikum Lichtenberg (as the medical facility has been called since 2005) to commemorate the work of Friedrich Jacobs. At the same time there is an exhibition about his life.

literature

  • Michael Laschke: The Oskar Ziethen Hospital Berlin-Lichtenberg . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-935693-98-2

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Jacobs (doctor)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b memorial plaques in Berlin: Friedrich Jacobs
  2. ^ History of the Brandenburg Clinic ; Opened in 1901; accessed on Nov. 6, 2014.
  3. ^ Jacobs, Friedrich . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1921, Part 1, p. 1247. “Dr. med., doctor ".
  4. ↑ Biographical audioguidelichtenberg.wordpress.com
  5. ^ Michael Laschke: The Oskar Ziethen Hospital Berlin-Lichtenberg . Pp. 95-97.
  6. ↑ Memorial plaque for a famous doctor . In: Berliner Woche , Lichtenberg-Nordwest edition, November 5th. 2014, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Jacobs, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobs, Friedrich Adalbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Russian gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1964
Place of death Maidenhead