Hans Haustein
Hans Haustein (* 27. August 1894 in Berlin , † 12. November 1933 ibid ) was a physician and scientist in the Weimar Republic .
Life
After graduating from high school, Hans Haustein studied medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin from 1913 to 1918 . He volunteered for military service , but was declared "unfit for military service" for health reasons. He then worked in various hospitals . In 1918 he passed the first state examination. At the end of the war he served as a second airfield doctor at the Johannisthal commandant , where he was released from military service on February 28, 1919.
Following his practical year , he was trained as a dermatologist and venereologist at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital and at the Charité in Berlin. His teachers in the fields of dermatology and venereology were Abraham Buschke at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital and Georg Arndt at the Charité Dermatology Clinic. In 1920 he did his doctorate under Alfred Grotjahn with a thesis on the social hygiene activities of the state insurance institutions in Berlin. He then received his license to practice medicine and became an assistant doctor .
Soon after he became a specialist in skin diseases and venereal diseases , he opened a doctor's practice on Kurfürstendamm in 1924 . This provided him with a corresponding clientele with affluence and high social status . He had the reputation of a fashion doctor who also looked after prostitutes and provided them with pessaries for contraception . As a specialist, he was a colleague and competitor of Gottfried Benn , who practiced on Belle-Alliance-Strasse, now Mehringdamm . By 1925 at the latest, he was married to Friedel Haustein, who apparently had completed a scientific training and received her doctorate.
At Bregenzer Strasse 4 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , he and his wife Friedel ran a sophisticated house with a salon . In these rooms they held lavish parties where writers , composers , painters and patrons met. During the Weimar Republic, Wilmersdorf had a strong Jewish population. Numerous Jewish artists and writers lived in this district.
Hausein, who was known for his intellectual and erotic permissiveness, was considered the salon lion . He was in a relationship with a mannequin named Sonja , to whom he should have been sexually submissive. His closer friends included u. a. the writer Lion Feuchtwanger , the composer Fred Raymond and the painter Christian Schad , who also portrayed him in 1928 in the style of magical realism . In this picture you can also see haustein's lover Sonja as a shadow on the wall. In 1930 or 1931 his wife Friedel committed suicide .
| Portrait Dr. House stone |
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| Christian Schad , 1928 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 81 × 55 cm |
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum , Madrid
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Hausein also worked scientifically and was considered one of the most important experts in the fight against venereal diseases. From 1916 onwards he published over 70 works, including important ones such as The sexually transmitted diseases including prostitution and The early history of syphilis . From 1921 to 1923 he worked for the journal Social Hygiene, Welfare and Hospital Services . In 1925 he and his wife published a scientific treatise on combating venereal diseases in Denmark. From 1932 he headed the historical section of the genetics department of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin-Buch .
Through the takeover of the Nazis in 1933 Haustein lost suddenly his upper-class status and the discrimination and persecution, saw exposed. Because of his work for the Association of Socialist Doctors , he was withdrawn from statutory health insurance in June 1933. On July 7, 1933, he was arrested by the Gestapo along with other Jewish and politically unpopular doctors and severely ill-treated. On November 12, 1933, Haustein killed himself with cyanide in the Spandau protective custody camp .
Hausein is sometimes associated with the Jewish religious community , but there are no clear indications that he belonged to this denomination. Haustein himself stated that he belonged to a Reformed church and emphasized that his parents and grandparents were reformed.
Works (selection)
- Hans Haustein: Felix von Luschan's skin color chart is separated using Davenport's method. Berlin 1916.
- Hans Haustein: The social hygiene activities of the state insurance institutions, shown using the example of the state insurance institution of the Hanseatic cities. Leipzig 1919.
- Hans Haustein, Friedel Haustein: The fight against sexually transmitted diseases in Denmark. Berlin 1925.
- Hans Haustein: Sexually transmitted diseases and prostitution in Scandinavia. Berlin 1925.
- Hans Haustein: On sexual hygiene in Soviet Russia. Bonn 1926.
- Hans Haustein: The venereal diseases including prostitution. In: Adolf Gottstein (Hrsg.): Handbook of social hygiene and health care. Berlin 1926.
- Hans Haustein and Hugo Hecht : Social significance, control, statistics of venereal diseases. In: Josef Jadassohn (Ed.): Handbook of skin and sexually transmitted diseases. Volume 22, Berlin 1927.
- Hans Haustein: The early history of syphilis. Berlin 1930.
literature
- Änne Söll : The New Man ?: Male portraits by Otto Dix, Christian Schad and Anton Räderscheidt, 1914-1930. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2016, ISBN 9783770558612 , pp. 217–232.
- Volker Klimpel : Doctors Death: Unnatural and Violent Death in nine chapters and a biographical appendix. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 9783826027697 , pp. 18-20.
Web links
- Neue Zürcher Zeitung : The difficult fate of Jewish doctors in Berlin
- European Urology : The portrait of Dr. Hans Haustein
- Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum : Portrait of Dr. House stone
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Haustein, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1933 |
| Place of death | Berlin |