Fritz Edinger

Stumbling block for Fritz Edinger in front of the house at Gärtnerweg 51, Frankfurt-Westend

Fritz Edinger (born March 2, 1888 in Frankfurt am Main , † probably June 19, 1942 in Sobibor ) was a German neurologist and journalist from Frankfurt am Main.

Life

Marc Adolf Friedrich Edinger, who was always called "Fritz" from childhood, was the eldest son of the brain researcher and neurologist Ludwig Edinger and his wife Anna Edinger . His sister Dora (1894–1982) married the pharmacologist Werner Lipschitz-Lindley (1892–1948), his sister Tilly (1897–1967) founded paleoneurology .

Edinger studied medicine and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1913 . His doctoral thesis was entitled: "The services of the central nervous system in the frog, presented with regard to the animal's way of life".

In 1914 Fritz Edinger married the historian Dora Meyer , who in turn received her doctorate in history from the University of Heidelberg in 1912 with a thesis on "Public Life in Berlin in the Year Before the March Revolution". The couple had three sons, but the firstborn son died a few days after the birth.

During the First World War, Fritz Edinger worked as a military doctor . He was wounded in a gas attack and retained a permanent nervous problem. The Eidinger couple worked in the vicinity of the Free Jewish Teaching House in Frankfurt and in the Jewish lodge B'nai B'rith .

In 1924 Edinger also obtained his doctorate in sociology with a thesis on "Contributions to the theory of economic policy." He published the book series "Lebendige Wissenschaft", was a correspondent for the "Heilbronner Sonntagszeitung" and was involved in the Frankfurter SPD . As a doctor, he hardly practiced. In Frankfurt he lived in Gärtnerweg 55, which was only formally his own house from 1939. By the end of 1939 Edinger had to pay 16,460.77 RM as a "Jewish property tax".

Dora Edinger was able to flee to the USA with her youngest son in 1936, the older son managed to escape to Palestine.

On December 15, 1941, Fritz Edinger was arrested on the street. Because he was obviously viewed as mentally ill, he came from the Preungesheim prison to the Frankfurt University and Mental Clinic and later to the Israelite Sanatorium and Nursing Home for Mentally Ill People in Bendorf-Sayn near Koblenz. This has served as the central collection point for the Jewish mentally ill since 1940. Fritz Edinger was deported to Sobibor in June 1942 together with numerous patients. He was probably murdered there on the day of his arrival, June 19, 1942.

A stumbling block was laid for Fritz Edinger at Gärtnerweg 51 in Frankfurt-Westend .

Private library

During the search for Nazi looted property in the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart , a book was found that belonged to the couple Fritz and Dora Edinger. It is Eduard Bernstein's work: Essence and Prospects of Bourgeois Radicalism , which was published by Duncker & Humblot in Munich in 1915 .

Works

• The services of the central nervous system in the frog, shown with regard to the animal's way of life . In: Journal of General Physiology. Bd. 15, H. 3, 1913 (dissertation University of Heidelberg 1913).
• Contributions to the theory of economic policy , Frankfurt, Wirtsch.- u. social science Diss. V. July 30, 1924 [1925].
• The concept of need and effort in economic theory and in national economic policy . In: Robert Wilbrandt (employee): Economy and Society. Contributions to contemporary economics and sociology; Festschrift for Franz Oppenheimer on his 60th birthday, Frankfurt a. M .: Societäts-Dr. 1924, pp. 301-312.
• From the neighbor and from the stranger . In: Community Gazette of the Israelite Congregation Frankfurt am Main. Official gazette of the municipal administration, vol. 2, issue 12, August 1924, pp. 1–2.
• German-Jewish youth . In: Liberale Blätter. Frankfurt Organ for Jewish Liberal Interests, Vol. 1, Issue 3, 1928, pp. 18-19.
• Can no longer be saved . On the deathbed of liberalism. In: Sonntagsblatt, July 8, 1928, pp. 1–2.
• Book show: what has been experienced, what is strived for, what has been achieved. Memories of Franz Oppenheimer . In: The Lodge Sister. Journal of the sister association of Bnei Briss, Vol. 4, Issue 12, 1931, pp. 6-7.

literature

• Fritz Edinger . In: Initiative Stolpersteine ​​Frankfurt am Main. 10. Documentation 2012, Frankfurt am Main [2012], pp. 73–74.
• Rolf Kohring and Gerald Kreft (eds.): Tilly Edinger. Life and work of a Jewish scientist , Stuttgart: Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 2003, pp. 504–507.

Web links

• Edinger, Fritz at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main