Fritz Curschmann (doctor)

Fritz Curschmann (born June 8, 1879 in Darmstadt ; † February 8, 1961 in Munich ) was a German internist and occupational physician .

Career

Curschmann was born the son of a high school director. He attended high schools in Darmstadt and Friedberg and then studied medicine at the Ludwigs-Universität Gießen and the Universität Leipzig . During his studies in Gießen in 1897 he became a member of the student association Academic Society "The Monastery" . His doctorate took place in 1901.

In 1908 he joined the film factory of the Aktien-Gesellschaft für Anilin-Fabrikation (Agfa) in Wolfen as a company doctor . He later became head of the department for social policy affairs for workers and salaried employees there as well as a deputy board member of Agfa in 1920 and of the newly founded IG Farben in 1925/1926 .

In IG Farben management, he was not very popular because of his liberal views. In 1933 there were considerations to remove him from management because of his Jewish great-grandfather David Oppert, but Curschmann was able to hold onto his position for a few more years. Only in 1938 - at the age of 64 - did he retire and move to Munich .

Curschmann was also a member of various economic and scientific associations until 1938, for example from 1909 to 1933 chairman of the permanent factory doctors 'conference at the employers' liability insurance association for the chemical industry .

After the end of World War II, he practiced as a specialist in internal medicine in Munich until he was 70 years old. He was buried in the north cemetery in Munich .

Honors

Arthur Weinberg Medal
1952: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

Erich Scheibmayr : Last Home: Personalities in Munich Cemeteries 1784–1984. Scheibmayr, Munich 1989.

Individual evidence

↑ German Gender Book. Issue 149 (1970), p. 182.
↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 22.
↑ Manfred Gill, Peter Löhnert: The relationship of IG Farben's Agfa Filmfabrik Wolfen to its Jewish scientists and to scientists married to Jews 1933–1939. In: John E. Lesch (Ed.): The German chemical industry in the twentieth century. (= Chemists and Chemistry , Vol. 18.) Kluwer, Dordrecht 2000, ISBN 0-7923-6487-2 , pp. 123–145, here p. 131. ( limited preview of Google books )
presumably consistent with:
Manfred Gill , Peter Löhnert: Jewish chemists from Dessau in the Wolfen film factory. A contribution to the fate of the Jewish scientists and the Jewish married scientists of the Wolfen film factory in the time of National Socialism. (= Series of publications of the Moses-Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft Dessau eV , Volume 5.) Moses-Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft, Dessau 1997, p. 17.

personal data
SURNAME	Curschmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German internist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 8, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH	February 8, 1961
Place of death	Munich

[1] German Gender Book. Issue 149 (1970), p. 182.

[2] The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 22.

[3] Manfred Gill, Peter Löhnert: The relationship of IG Farben's Agfa Filmfabrik Wolfen to its Jewish scientists and to scientists married to Jews 1933–1939. In: John E. Lesch (Ed.): The German chemical industry in the twentieth century. (= Chemists and Chemistry , Vol. 18.) Kluwer, Dordrecht 2000, ISBN 0-7923-6487-2 , pp. 123–145, here p. 131. ( limited preview of Google books )
presumably consistent with:
Manfred Gill , Peter Löhnert: Jewish chemists from Dessau in the Wolfen film factory. A contribution to the fate of the Jewish scientists and the Jewish married scientists of the Wolfen film factory in the time of National Socialism. (= Series of publications of the Moses-Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft Dessau eV , Volume 5.) Moses-Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft, Dessau 1997, p. 17.