Fritz Brandt (medical doctor)

Fritz Brandt (1892–1945)

Fritz Brandt (born January 28, 1892 in Bütow ; † June 8, 1945 in Stolp ) was a German doctor.

Life

Fritz Brandt was the son of a lawyer and notary. He graduated from high school in Lauenburg and studied medicine in Berlin and Munich since 1912. In the First World War he was used as a field doctor. In 1919 he finished his studies and received his doctorate in Greifswald .

Brandt then worked as an assistant doctor at various hospitals in Berlin. In 1922 he set up a doctor's practice in Bütow, and shortly afterwards in Kolberg . At the same time, he volunteered as the medical director of the Reinke Waldheilstätte Schülerbrink (Polish: Żółczyce) for children and young people from industrial areas. Brandt moved his practice to Pölitz in 1934 and finally to Stolp in 1936.

He stayed in Stolp when the Red Army took the town on March 8, 1945 and got in touch with the Russian town commander Major Pietuchow, who appointed him town doctor, whose area of ​​responsibility was later extended to the district. Since the city hospital was occupied by the Russians, emergency hospitals and disease stations had to be set up under the most difficult of conditions. When typhus and spotted fever broke out among the German residents and the many homeless people, many of the helpers became infected. Brandt also fell ill with typhus and died of the disease.

On June 20, 1945, Fritz Brandt was buried with great sympathy from the population and in the presence of the city commandant and many of his officers. His grave is tended to this day.

Works

• About two cases of myosarcoma in the renal pelvis . Diss. Greifswald 1919.

literature

• Friedrich Brandt: On the 10th anniversary of Dr. med. Fritz Brandt . In: Stolper Heimatblatt, June 1955, pp. 147–149
• Karl-Heinz Pagel : Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1977. p. 314ff.